Upper Peninsula
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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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DNR tracking deer herd after historic winter
Michigan DNR says the 2025-26 U.P. winter exceeded its severe-winter threshold by…
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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…
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How Keweenaw Copper Built the U.P.—and Wired a Growing America
Before the California Gold Rush became legend, another American mineral rush was…
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Every Yooper Knows the Spot: Why Friday Night in the U.P. Will Always Mean Fish Fry
You can get fried fish anywhere. You can’t get this anywhere. Every…
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Are There Mountain Lions in the Upper Peninsula? The DNR Just Confirmed Cubs for the First Time
For the first time in over a century, a mother cougar and…
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Why Michigan Has the Upper Peninsula: A Lost War, a Consolation Prize, and a Copper Fortune
Michigan didn’t choose the U.P. It got stuck with it. Then it…
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Sisu Is the Untranslatable Finnish Word for Grit That the U.P. Built Into Every Yooper
There’s no English word for it. But every U.P. kid was raised…
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In This Part of the U.P., They Measure Snow in Feet, and Some Winters in Yards
Some winters the snow up here piles past twenty feet. The locals…
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If You Grew Up in the U.P., Deer Camp Was Never Really About the Deer
Schools close, towns empty, and Yoopers scattered all over the map find…
