UP Sites: individual cities, towns, categories of places (e.g., camping), interesting places with Web sites--the Upper Peninsula, Michigan, USA

Living - Places - Sites - The Upper Peninsula, Michigan, USA

Places such as areas or places for activities (e.g., camping), interesting places; see also the listings for Venues, Museums; see Activities for cultural centers; see Local Government for official Web sites of cities, townships, villages, or tribal or other local government areas, and County Government for official Web sites of counties

Adventure Mine: Copper Mine; tour underground copper mine, Mine Safety and Health Training, Gate Fabrication Services; Ontonagon County
Alger Info: Alger County information portal; travel and city information; Alger county has the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, Munising; note this is not the official county site
Alger Co Chamber: Alger County Chamber of Commerce; attractions, accommodations, activities, area information
Baraga Co: Baraga County Tourist and Recreation Association; Baraga county has Mount Arvon, the highest point in Michigan at 603.27 meters above sea level
Camping State: Department of Natural Resources list; all campgrounds in Michigan state parks, recreation areas, and state forests
Camping Private: Michigan Association of RV Parks and Campgrounds; map and listing of campgrounds in the UP
Chassell: General Information; Chassell is on Portage Lake, near the Portage Entry, the eastern entrance of the water passage through the Keweenaw Peninsula through which ships take as a shortcut across Lake Superior
Cities: UP Cities government Web sites; official government Web sites; some contain tourist information
Copper Harbor: Copper Harbor Improvement Association; lodging, campgrounds, restaurants, groceries, gift shops, tours/charters, maps, history; Copper Harbor is at the northernmost tip of the Keweenaw Peninsula, near Fort Wilkins State Park, is historically noted as the center of the 1843 boom in copper mining
Copper Range RR: Presents history of the Copper Range Railroad; includes Copper Range Consolidated Company, as well as the rest of Michigan's Copper Country; edited by Kevin Musser
Counties: UP County government Web sites; official government Web sites; some contain tourist information or links to tourist sites or municipal or village sites
Curtis Area: Curtis Chamber of Commerce; Curtis is in the eastern UP on Manistique Lakes (which is not near Manistique); offers activities from smelt dipping to ice fishing in a waterfront village setting
Delta Co Visit: Delta County Area Chamber of Commerce; boasts more fresh water shoreline than any other county in the nation; county encompasses more populous western side of Little Bay de Noc including the cities of Escanaba and Gladstone, Stonington and Garden Peninsulas, and Big Bay de Noc; guide to places to stay, eat, shop, golf, fish, camp, and worship; notable Walleye fishing in Little Bay de Noc and shipping port at Escanaba
De Tour Village: DeTour Area Chamber of Commerce; De Tour Village is at the easternmost tip of the UP on the De Tour passage waterway west of Drummond Island; notable for its water-oriented tourism as it lies at the conjunction of the St Mary's River and Lake Huron
Dickinson Co Visit: Dickinson Area Partnership; visitor and commerce information for Dickinson County in the central UP including the cities of Iron Mountain, Kingsford, and Norway; notable snow skiing
Drummond Isl: 30,000 hectare island, easternmost UP land; in Lake Huron; two-thirds of the land is state-owned, part of Chippewa County
Escanaba visit: Visit Escanaba; tourism site
Eagle Harbor: Unofficial information; Eagle Harbor is in Keweneenaw County on Lake Superior; it is notable as harbor which served as an important shipping point in the 19th century
Fayette: Deserted 1880's company town; on the Garden Peninsula in Delta County; Fayette is a historic townsite in Fayette Historic State Park; iron-smelting operations developed here in the late 19th century; visitor center and walking tour
Ft Wilkins: Fort Wilkins and Copper Harbor Lighthouse; Michigan State Park; served briefly in the 1840's as a US Army post; historic buildings, costumed interpreters
Grand Marais: Chamber of Commerce; information on tourism, business, attractions; Grand Marais, on Lake Superior in the northern UP is at the eastern gateway to Pictured Rocks Nationa Lakeshore
Granite Island: Granite Island Light Station; a light station and weather station in Lake Superior
Gwinn-KI Sawyer: Chamber of Commerce; Gwinn is notable for its development as a planned community--a model town--created by the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Mining Company for its miners; Sawyer (now re-renamed K. I. Sawyer to distinguish itself from downstate Michigan village of Sawyer), is a former US Air Force Base closed in 1985; the site now houses the county airport KSAW
Harbors & Marinas: Michigan Department of Natural Resources listing; shows map of harbors of refuge, harbors, and harbor reservations with clickable points for more information
Heritage Trails: Western Upper Peninsula Heritage Trail Network of Michigan
Hiawatha NF: Hiawatha National Forest; information from National Forest Service; the Hiawatha National Forest is over 3,500 square kilometers of forest in a central and eastern unit; the forest includes lands that touch the shores of three of the Great Lakes and includes Grand Island, Round Island, Government Island, and St. Vital island; headquarters in Escanaba; Grand Island National Recreation Area
Huron Mtn Club: Private club 48 km northwest of Marquette; site contains employment information and general information about the club; not open to the public; gathering place of industrialists like Cyrus McCormick, Frederick Miller, and Henry Ford; Huron Mountain Wildlife Foundation research at Ives Lake Research Station, 6000 hectares of area
Iron Visit: Chamber, Tourism, and Economic Development information; Iron County is in the western UP and is notable in its role in iron mining and logging; includes Iron River, Caspian, and Crystal Falls
Iron Mtn Visit: Tourism Association of Dickinson County; travel information; Iron Mountain is the county seat of Dickinson County and is notable for its role as a recreation and tourism area as well as a site for International Paper at Quinnesec and other industries
Iron Ore Heritage: a 75-kilometer multiuse trail on the Marquette Iron Range; bike, walk, run, hike, ORV, snowmobile, cross country ski, birdwatch, and wander
Iron River: Travel information; Iron River is in the western UP; notable for its recreation and role in iron mining
Ironwood Chamber: Chamber of Commerce
Ironwood Travel: Travel; Ironwood is at the westernmost tip of the UP where US 2 enters the UP; Ironwood is notable for role in mining and logging
Ishpeming-Negaunee: Greater Ishpeming-Negaunee Area Chamber of Commerce
Island Casino: Island Resort and Casino; Harris, Michigan, 20 km west of Escanaba Michigan on US 2/41; gambling, entertainment, dining, indoor swimming with heated sand beach; owned and operated by the Hannahville Indian Community Tribe of Potawatomi Indians
Isle Royale Keweenaw Pks: Isle Royale and Keweenaw Parks Association; Isle Royale National Park and Keweenaw National Historical Park
Isle Royale NP: Isle Royale National Park; island wilderness archipelago in Lake Superior; 72 kilometers long and 14 kilometers wide at its widest point; 2,100 square kilometers of land and water; access by boat or float plane only; wolves, moose, pre-Columbian copper mine; International Biosphere Reserve designation in 1980; part of Keweenaw County
Kewadin Casinos: Indian gaming casinos; one of the UP's largest employers; casinos in the Soo, St. Ignace, Hessel, Christmas, and Manistique
Keweenaw CC: Keweenaw Peninsula Chamber of Commerce; tourism and community information; the Keweenaw Peninsula juts out the northern shore of the UP into Lake Superior and is notable for its role in 19th century copper mining; encompasses Keweenaw and Houghton counties; notable for a distinct cultural identity as "the Copper Country" encompassing a Scandinavian heritage, mining history, present role in education (Finlandia University and Michigan Technological University), and its geographic situation as a relatively isolated peninsula on a peninsula centered on its dual-city populated area consisting of the contiguous (connected by a lift bridge) cities Houghton and Hancock
Keweenaw Info: Keweenaw Convention and Visitor Bureau; official website of the Keweenaw CVB; tourism information source to plan your next visit to the beautiful Keweenaw Peninsula; mainland Michigan's northernmost point, the UP's "Superior Coast"
Keweenaw NHP: Keweenaw National Historical Park; US National Parks Service; copper mining heritage; 7 square kilometers on two main units and cooperating sites; Calumet Unit; Quincy Unit; Quincy Smelter
Lake Gogebic Area: Lake Gogebic; Lake Gogebic is in the western UP and is the largest inland lake (54 square kilometers) in the UP; it is notable for its fishing and the fact that it straddles two time zones and two counties
Lake Huron: Information for Lake Huron; the UP's Lake Huron shoreline is in the eastern end of the UP; Lake Huron is the second largest Great Lake in surface area (about 60,000 square kilometers) and is important as a shipping connection to Lakes Michigan via the Straits of Mackinac and Lake Superior via the Soo Locks
Lake Linden: official Village site; Lake Linden is on the Keweenaw Peninsula, north of Houghton/Hancock; Lake Linden is the home of the Houghton Country Historical Museum
Lake Michigan: Information for Lake Michigan; Lake Michigan is the only Great Lake located entirely within the United States and has a surface area of 57,800 square kilometers; Lake Michigan is important for shipping access to the Mississippi River and the midwest United States
Lake Superior: Information for Lake Superior; Lake Superior is the largest Great Lake in surface area, with 82,000 square kilometers; in the winter, it can freeze over and its shipping season is thus shortened
Les Cheneaux Is: Les Cheneaux Islands Area Tourist Association; 36 islands in Lake Huron in the eastern UP near Cedarville
Libraries links: links to UP Library Web sites and collection catalogs
Libraries SLC: Superiorland Library Cooperative
Libraries UPRLC: Upper Peninsula Region of Library Cooperation; listing of public libraries in the UP
Library MeL: The Michigan eLibrary (MeL); a statewide service of the Library of Michigan, part of the Michigan Department of Education
Library of MI: Library of Michigan; the State of Michigan's public library, part of the Michigan Department of Education, Lansing
Local: City, Village, Township, Tribal, or other Local UP government Web sites; official government Web sites; some contain tourist information or links to tourist information
Mackinac Co: Mackinac County; government and tourist information
Mackinac Bridge: Suspension bridge connecting Michigan's Lower Peninsula and Upper Peninsula; Mackinac Bridge Authority official site; the "Mighty Mac" connects Mackinaw City in the Lower Peninsula to St. Ignace in the UP along I-75, the UP's only interstate highway; the bridge opened in 1957 and is 2,625 meters long from anchorage to anchorage and has a 1,158 meter central span (both the Verrazano-Narrows in New York and Golden Gate in California have longer central spans)
Mackinac Island: Tourism information; Mackinac Island is in the Straits of Mackinac just east of St. Ignace in Lake Huron; the island is famous for its Grand Hotel, and its tourist-oriented shopping, Victorian architecture, and car-free streets and roads
Mackinac Island Tourism: Tourism Bureau; information on lodging, attractions, events
Mackinac Straits: Mackinac Bridge & Straits of Mackinac; photos, information, and links to area information sites
Manistique Visit: Visitor information; Manistique is on Lake Michigan east of Escanaba and is the seat of Schoolcraft County; noted for its settlement as a lumbering area in the 19th century; nearby Indian Lake, Hiawatha National Forest and the Kitch-iti-kipi mineral springs
Marquette Travel: Marquette city and county travel
Menominee Chamber: River Cities Regional Chamber of Commerce; Menominee and its neighboring city of Marinette, Wisconsin constitute a UP center for tourism, shopping, and industry, notably ship building
Munising Visit: Munising Visitors Bureau; Munising is in the northern UP on Lake Superior and is seat of Alger County; Munising is noted as a destination for snowmobilers as well as a departure point for visits to Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore
Newberry Chamber: Newberry Area Chamber of Commerce; Newberry is in the eastern part of the UP and the seat of Luce County; nearby Tahquamenon Falls State Park
Newberry Visit: Newberry Area Tourism Association
Noquemanon Trail Network: Hiking and water trail network; in the central UP; trails include Noquemanon, Saux Head, Cedar Hurst, Big Bay, Blueberry, Al Quaal, South Marquette, and Valley Spur
North Country Trail: Hiking trail; planned to stretch 6,400 kilometers in seven northern states; section going across the UP, partly along Lake Superior shore; National Park Service North Country National Scenic Trail
Ojibwa Casino: Indian gaming casino; in Baraga and Harvey
Ontonagon Chamber: Ontonagon Chamber of Commerce; travel and community information; Ontonagon County is in the western UP on Lake Superior; notable for its Porcupine Mountains State Park and winter snowmobiling and skiing
Ontonagon Net: Ontonagon travel information; events, fall color, snowmobile and ski conditions
Ottawa NF: Ottawa National Forest; 200 square kilometer federal forest land; over 500 named lakes; nearly 3,200 kilometers of rivers and streams; Sylvania Wilderness; headquarters Ironwood
Paradise: Chamber of commerce; Paradise is in the eastern UP on the shore of Lake Superior on Whitefish Bay; it offers outdoor recreation
Parks, State: Department of Natural Resources map; shows location of Michigan State parks and recreation areas and scenic sites; clickable map takes you to details on each locale
Pictured Rocks NL: Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore; sandstone cliffs along the shore of Lake Superior in the north central UP; 295 square kilometers; headquarters Munising; National Park Service; cruise available
Porcupine Mtns: Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park; in the western UP; 242 square kilometers of old-growth timber, rugged terrain on Lake Superior, waterfalls; scenic Lake of the Clouds; hiking, camping
Quincy Mine: Quincy Mine Hoist Association; museum showing former mining operations at Quincy, north of Hancock in the Keweenaw Peninsula
St Ignace Visit: St. Ignace Convention & Visitors Bureau and St. Ignace Chamber of Commerce; St. Ignace is located at the north end of the Mackinac Bridge and is one of the oldest communities in the region; noted for its tourism
Seny NWR: Seney National Wildlife Refuge; 385 square kilometers in the eastern UP north of Manistique set aside as a wetland and upland habitat for migratory birds and resident wildlife; bald eagles, common loons, trumpeter swans, geese, hooded mergansers, mallards, black ducks, ring-necked ducks, wood ducks, sandhill cranes, black bear, white-tailed deer, coyote, river otter, beaver, moose, wolves, ruffed spruce, sharp-tailed grouse, yellow rails, woodcock, osprey, black flies, deer flies, mosquitoes, and wood ticks; US Fish & Wildlife Service; also administers Kirtlands Warbler NWR, Huron Islands, Michigan Islands, Harbor Islands, and Whitefish Point NWRs in Lakes Superior, Huron, and Michigan
Sault Canada: Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada; sister city to Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, together which create the most populous metropolitan area of the UP; across the International Bridge from Soo, Michigan
Sault Chamber: Sault Ste. Marie Chamber of Commerce; businesses, events, visitor information
Sault Ste Marie: Sault Area Convention and Visitors Bureau; tourism information
Society St John: Catholic Monastery of the Byzantine rite; poverty, chastity, obedience, and stability; in Jacob's Falls on Lake Superior in the Keweenaw Peninsula near Eagle Harbor
Soo Locks: locks connecting Lake Superior with Lake Huron; Sault Ste. Marie; locks raise and lower ships to compensate for the different levels of surface water in the lakes; significant link in the Saint Lawrence Seaway system; US locks (Poe, MacArthur, Davis, Sabin) and Canadian locks
State Parks: Michigan State Parks in the UP; many state parks in the UP offer varied landscapes, history, flora, and fauna; Baraga, Bewabic, Brimley, Craig Lake, F.J. McLain, Fayette, Fort Wilkins, Indian Lake, J.W. Wells, Lake Gogebic, Laughing Whitefish Falls, Lime Island, Mackinac Island, Menominee River, Muskallonge Lake, Porcupine Mountains Wilderness, Straits, Tahquamenon Falls, Tahquamenon Rivermouth, Twin Lakes, Van Riper, Wagner Falls
Watersmeet: Chamber of Commerce; Watersmeet is in the western UP in Gogebic County; near the Wisconsin border and in an area with many lakes; nearby Ottawa National Forest
Western UP: Convention and Visitor Bureau; travel information for Ironwood, Bessemer, Wakefield, Ontonagon, Lake Gogebic, Watersmeet, and Hurley; popular area for winter sports and outdoor recreation
Whitefish Pt Bird: Whitefish Point Bird Observatory; just 18km north of Paradise; migration observation on the shore of Lake Superior; Globally Important Bird Area; recorded over 340 bird species; research conducted
Zoo Garlyn: Garlyn Zoological Park; family-owned 12 hectare display of animals--birds, bear, coyote, camel, deer, wolf, otter; west of the Mackinac Bridge on Lake Michigan

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