The northeastern corner of the Upper Peninsula is a place defined by water. From the local Ojibwa, who came to the head of the rapids to net whitefish, to the fur-trading French who came here looking for an inland passage through North America, the water resources were prized greatly in ...

In the land of Hiawatha, north of Newberry, the mighty Tahquamenon River twists and turns, tumbles over two sets of impressive waterfalls and then, still wide and rolling, dumps into Lake Superior at Whitefish Bay. Along the way, there are beautiful forests and marshlands, sandy jack pine ...

In southern Schoolcraft County lie two fantastic Michigan state parks, each situated along the shores of the Upper Peninsula’s fourth-largest lake — the 8,400-acre Indian Lake, which is located north of Thompson and west of Manistique. Indian Lake State Park — which is divided into a ...

Situated about a half-hour north of Seney at the northern terminus of M-77 lies the quaint, summertime seascape community of Grand Marais. This small town of sand and sea, shops and seasonal homes is the eastern gateway community for Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, the nation’s first ...

Ninety years ago, members of the Houghton County Board of County Park Trustees met and crafted a plan to create three parks within the county. Among the members of the panel was Frederick Jay McLain, a man who’d moved from Nebraska to the Keweenaw Peninsula to work as chief clerk for the ...

Not far to the west of St. Joseph Island, amid the beautiful blue waters of the St. Marys River, sits the Lime Island State Recreation Area — a place with a special feeling unlike that of most any other Michigan state parks. The small island — which is about a mile-and-a-half square ...