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 vanished with 20 men. The only trace ever found washed...
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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 an angle that should not hold. The secret is what...
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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 report in 1841. What gets left out is that Douglass...
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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 bare sandstone pillar, fed by roots stretched across open air...
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Lake Superior Nearly Swallowed This Lighthouse. A Retired Couple Refused to Let It.
Crisp Point Lighthouse sits 18 miles down a dirt road on the Shipwreck Coast. It nearly fell into Lake Superior until a...
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The Rocks Yoopers Hunt on Lake Superior Beaches Are a Billion Years Old
Lake Superior agates are the U.P.'s favorite beach treasure, banded stones about a billion years old. How they formed, and how to...
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The World’s Largest Log Cabin Is Hidden on the Lake Superior Shore
The largest log cabin in the world sits on Lake Superior near Marquette. The man who built Granot Loma also helped finance...
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Meet the Lake Sturgeon: a 150-Million-Year-Old Living Fossil Still Cruising U.P. Rivers and Lake Superior
Seven feet long, older than the ice age, and still gliding along the bottom of the water you grew up on. There's...
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Isle Royale Is Michigan’s Only National Park, and the Least-Visited One in the Lower 48
An island wilderness of wolves and moose, with no roads and a lake on it that has its own island. And it's...
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Brockway Mountain Drive May Be the Most Beautiful View in the Entire U.P.
From the top of Brockway Mountain, Lake Superior spreads out in front of you in every direction, blue all the way to...
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The Only Time in Michigan History a Prison Warden Was Killed Happened in the U.P.
Inside the movie theatre of the Marquette Branch Prison, a December night in 1921 turned into the darkest chapter in the prison's...
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These Lake Superior Rocks Look Ordinary by Day, Then Glow Like Lava After Dark
They sat hidden on the beaches for a billion years before a Yooper with a flashlight figured them out Walk a Lake...
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People Think Lake Superior Is Just a Lake. Then They See It Like This.
The biggest waves ever recorded on the Great Lakes rolled right past the U.P. — nearly three stories tall. Press play. Everyone...
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