Lake Superior
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Jumping Off Black Rocks Into Lake Superior Is the Marquette Rite of Passage Yoopers Never Forget
The cold water, the long drop, the dare from your buddies. If…
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Michigan’s Most Famous Rock Formation Lost a Piece of Itself Overnight. Fishermen Called It In by Cell Phone.
Miners Castle is the signature landmark of Pictured Rocks, and on April…
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The U.P.’s Grand Island Was Once a Private Game Preserve Stocked With Caribou and Antelope
Around 1900 the president of Cleveland-Cliffs turned Grand Island into a private…
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Sailors Have Been Reporting a Serpent in Lake Superior Since 1894. Meet Pressie.
Lake Superior has its own monster legend. Sailors have reported a serpent…
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The Cliffs Marquette Kids Jump Off Are Some of the Oldest Exposed Rock on Earth
Black Rocks at Presque Isle is Marquette’s rite of passage: a 20…
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A Whiskey Smuggler Got Caught in the U.P. After the Crew Drank Too Much of Their Own Cargo
During Prohibition, whiskey poured across the U.P.’s Canadian border, sometimes with the…
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A Freighter Vanished Off the U.P. in 1902 and All That Ever Came Back Was One Life Preserver
The SS Bannockburn sailed into a Lake Superior snowstorm in 1902 and…
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The U.P.’s Grand Sable Dunes Stand at an Angle That Should Not Be Possible
The U.P.’s Grand Sable Dunes drop 300 feet into Lake Superior at…
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He Started the U.P.’s Copper Rush. Then He Warned Everyone to Stay Away.
The U.P.’s entire copper boom traces back to one man and one…
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The Tree on Michigan’s Quarter Is Alive Because Its Roots Refuse to Let Go
The lone pine on Chapel Rock at Pictured Rocks lives on a…
