Field notes from Northern Michigan: the people ad and stories that make Up North home.
Somewhere on every drive north, somebody says “now we’re Up North,” and the argument starts. We ranked the four classic lines, checked them against where the white pines take over and picked a winner.
Michigan's state stone is a coral reef more than 350 million years old. Here's how to spot one, where you can legally keep it and how a 93-pound Petoskey ended…
In spring 2015 a Coast Guard crew flew over the Manitou Passage and the water was clear enough to count ribs. Here's where those wrecks sit and how close you…
Whitefish dip is what a northern Michigan summer tastes like. Here's why Lake Michigan's clear water is starving the fish, and how Leland's Fishtown keeps its tugs going.
Northwest Michigan's tart cherry crop fell 67% in 2025, after years of below-cost prices. Here's what's hitting our orchards, and how to tell real Michigan cherries at the store.
When the aurora alert hits, here's what to check before you drive, and which dark beaches from Headlands to Negwegon are worth the late night and the cold.
The pencil marks on the pantry door are the easy part. Here's how uncapping, the 15-day rental line and sibling politics decide who keeps the place Up North.
Those ruler-straight rows of red pine along Interstate 75 didn't plant themselves. Here's how the lumber boom and the CCC shaped the woods Up North, and where to stand under…
Ice volcanoes, blue ice caves and shelf ice turn the Leelanau shoreline into another planet every winter. Here's what you're looking at, where to watch it from and why you…
Michigan was 'the Thumb of the Michigan Mitten' by 1880 and 'the Mitten State' by 1901. How the hand map got here, and what we really mean by pop, ope,…
