Upper Peninsula
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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…
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Big Louie Moilanen Was Nearly 8 Feet Tall and Still Holds Michigan’s Tallest-Man Record
When Big Louie Moilanen walked into a room in the Copper Country,…
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Lake Superior Holds 10% of Earth’s Fresh Water and Could Drown the Other Great Lakes
Stand on a Lake Superior beach and look straight out, and you…
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The Henry B. Smith Sailed Out of Marquette in 1913 and Vanished With All 25 Men
In November 1913, a single storm tore across the Great Lakes for…
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Smelt Dipping Is the Wild U.P. Spring Tradition Where Yoopers Wade Into Freezing Rivers at Midnight
It is past midnight, the water is barely above freezing, and you…
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Christmas, Michigan Is a Real U.P. Town With a 35-Foot Santa and Its Own Postmark
There is a town in the Upper Peninsula called Christmas, and yes,…
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Lake Superior Whitefish Is the One Taste of Home Every Yooper Misses
Fresh whitefish, pan-fried with a light golden crust, pulled out of Lake…
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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…
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The U.P. Is Bigger Than 9 U.S. States, but Almost Nobody Lives There
Pull up a map and it looks like a strip of land…
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If You’re From the U.P., You Don’t Have a Cottage. You Have a Camp
Downstate they have cottages. Up here it’s always been camp, and for…
