Fall in Northern Michigan is magical, colorful and ready to be captured and shared on Instagram—especially from these incredible locations. The season for color tours, pumpkin-spiced everything and ...

Filmmaker Aaron Peterson, Down Wind Sports owner Bill Thompson and the unofficial mayor of the Upper Peninsula, Bugsy Sailor, ...

Some cookbooks are simply about recipes. Others, like Maureen Abood’s, are about memory, connection, and the joy of passing ...

View of Downtown Traverse City.

Celebrating the North’s craft beverage scene, across all seven regions.

A half century after it closed, the oldest inn in the national park system is open once again to laughter, the best night’s sleep ever, home cooking, lifetime memories and even romance. For a storied ...

A family penchant for tinkering and fresh tracks gives birth to Michigan-inspired skis with a joy-stoked cult following. We tap into the obsession of Shaggy’s Copper Country Skis. It’s 1908, in the ...

Tucked in the limestone bluffs of the Upper Peninsula’s coast are the crumbling vestiges of an abandoned smelting town, Fayette. We go in search of the heartbeat of the past. Featured in the July 2003 ...

I’m looking at this black and white photograph, a view that captures the current of the Au Sable River at Grayling’s Stephan Bridge. It’s about 1900. In the foreground, the river meanders through ...

Our destination is a sand dune. Exact location, TBD. I’ve cruised past the rolling dunes along Highway 2 plenty of times while en route to other U.P. locales: Grand Marais, Munising, Marquette. It ...

The elusive Lake Superior agate. Rockhounds scour Lake Superior’s shoreline for these rare banded beauties—from the western reaches of the Keweenaw Peninsula to the U.P.’s easternmost Whitefish Point.

A monastery on Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula delivers delightful jam. On a windswept coast of the Upper Peninsula, a small band of devoted monks is carving out a life that balances work and worship.