Shopping Unique Yooper products and shops.

• Lakestate Industries provides a wide range of products--built right in the UP--for your home or business: Yooper firestarters (make a great gift for hunters or campers), dog feeders, furniture, crates, trash bins, pallets and stakes, document-shredding, janitorial services, and subcontracting.
• I remember eating Trenary Toast at my grandmother's house. What is Trenary Toast? Toasted bread topped with cinnamon. What other city is known primarily for its toast?
• Mama Russo's in Ishpeming exports its Cudighi and other sausage throughout the UP and Wisconsin.
• Whitefish from Mackinac Straits Fish Company, St. Ignace, is eaten at fine restaurants throughout the Great Lakes.
• I learned to walk on snowshoes in the UP soon after I could walk. Iverson's in Shingleton makes snowshoes in the UP with modern and traditional materials.
• Very much the UP's distinctive food, the pasty (pronounced PAST ee), is available for online ordering at Pasty Central.
• Another UP tradition is the Finnish steam bath, the sauna (prounounced SOUN ah); Nippa in Bruce Crossing makes stoves.
• The Copper Connection in Houghton sells minerals from the Copper Country's rich mining heritage--including float copper, jasper, hematite, and Lake Superior Agates.
• Village Artisans of Garden: brings together artists and art enthusiasts; art classes, workshops, music and drama productions, lectures, demonstrations, and adult enrichment programs.

Restaurants Unique area restaurants.

• Dobber's Pasties in Escanaba was voted as having the "Best Pasties in Michigan" in the The Detroit News for 2004. Also available for ordering online.
• When I attended Michigan Tech, it was a tradition to stop with your family at Hilltop Sweet Rolls in L'Anse for their enormous sweet rolls.
• The Harbor Haus Restaurant has waterfront dining in Copper Harbor.
• Vango's is still serving pizza on Third Street in Marquette; I remember going there while attending nearby Graveraet Middle School.
• The Village Inn of Mackinac is a restaurant and bar right on Hoban Road, Mackinac Island; it is open year-round.
• The Swedish Pantry in Escanaba serves home-cooked meals including Swedish pancackes.

Flavor Unique area tours, lodging, and other attractions.

Lodging

• The Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island is a member of the National Trust's Historic Hotels of America and claims the world's longest porch.

Tours

• Pictured Rocks Cruises in Munising takes you for a three hour plus cruise along the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore and its multicolored sandstone cliffs along cold and scenic Lake Superior.
• Soo Locks Boat Tours takes you through one of the most notable engineering achievements in the world, the Soo Locks, from Michigan's oldest city, Sault Ste Marie.