Living - Places - The Upper Peninsula, Michigan, USA
the Upper Peninsula has many cities, museums, and other places with Web sites
- Sites: 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
- Venues: Places for performances, concerts, athletics, conventions, tradeshows, gatherings; this is only a partial list that includes prominent, historic, or unique offerings; see also the facilities of higher education institutions that may have other performance or athletic spaces
- Bonifas: Bonifas Fine Arts Center; calendar of performing and visual arts, classes; Escanaba
- Calumet Theatre: historic performing arts; in Calumet in a historic theater opened in 1900 as an opera house
- Ironwood Theatre: regional Center for the Arts; Ironwood
- Lakeview Arena: ice hockey and multipurpose arena; Marquette
- Rozsa Ctr: performing arts; on Michigan Technological University's campus in Houghton
- Superior Dome: wooden dome stadium, Marquette; Northern Michigan University campus; home of Wildcat sports teams
- Tahqua Land: historic theatre; Newberry
- Vista: historic theater; downtown Negaune
- Museums: Displays of objects; includes planned educational activities related to art, history, culture, or science
- Agate: Gitche Gumee Agate and History Museum; large collection of incredible Lake Superior agates; Grand Marais
- Air Heritage: K. I. Sawyer Heritage Museum; works to promote and preserve the heritage and aviation history of K.I. Sawyer and honor veterans; located at closed former US Air Force Base which had been home to various aircraft--including fighters, bombers, air refueling, air rescue and reocvery, training, and communication
- Bonifas Art: William Bonifas Fine Arts Center; gallery exhibits, art workshops, classes, and theatrical productions; Alice Uren Powers Gallery; Studio gallery; Kastota Gallery; regional and local artists; Escanaba
- Carnegie Keweenaw: Carnegie Museum of the Keweenaw, Houghton; exhibits and programs about the region's natural and cultural history
- Delta Historical: Lighthouse, Museum, and Archives; Delta County Historical Society; Escanaba
- DeVos Art: Museum part of the School of Art and Design at Northern Michigan University; contemporary art; Marquette
- Baraga: Baraga County Historical Museum
- Chassell: Chassell Heritage Center; Chassell Township Museum and the Friends of Fashion Vintage Clothing Collection; Chassell
- Childrens: Upper Peninsula Children's Museum; Marquette
- Cliffs Shaft: Cliffs Shaft Mine Museum; Marquette Range Iron Mining Heritage Theme Park; Ishpeming
- Coppertown: History of the boom in copper mining; Calumet; covers the history of copper mining in the region which has been tracked back to five thousand years ago when unknown miners chipped at exposed copper and traded it throughout the Americas; covers the 19th and early 20th century boom in copper mining in the Keweenaw Peninsula when Calumet, from 1890 to 1910, became the most populous UP city--ever before or since
- Ford Center: Ford Center and Forest; Sawmill Museum; a unit of Michigan Technological University's College of Forest Resources and Environmental Science; Henry Ford-operated sawmill; originally steam-powered; demonstration of a sustainable community: the Village of Alberta
- GL Shipwreck: Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum and the Whitefish Point Light Station; at Whitefish Point in the eastern UP on Lake Superior
- Houghton Co: Houghton Country Historical Museum; home of the Copper Country Railroad Heritage Center; Lake Linden
- Iron Co: Iron County Historical Museum; the largest outdoor museum in the UP; shows off history and art of the UP; Cultural Center; Lee LeBlanc Wildlife Art Gallery; Giovanelli Italianati Art Gallery; Bernhardt Contemporary Art Gallery; Caspian near Iron River
- Iron Industry: Michigan Iron Industry Museum; shows displays related to the iron ore mining activities that continue today in the UP iron range; in Neguanee
- Iron Mine: Tour an iron mine; guided tour 120 meters underground; 14 kilometers east of Iron Mountain on US 2 in Vulcan
- IXL: lumbering and hardwood flooring era; Hermansville
- Keweenaw Heritage: Museums and mine tours; Underground Mine Tours (Adventure Mine, Delaware Copper Mine, Quincy Mine Tours); Historical Museums & Heritage Centers (Chassell Heritage Center, Copper Range Historical Museum, Coppertown Mining Museum, Finnish-American Heritage Center, Houghton County Historical Museum, Keweenaw County Historical Society, Keweenaw Heritage Center at St. Anne's, Ontonagon County Historical Society, Copper Country Firefighters History Museum)
- Les Cheneaux: Historical Association; Maritime Museum; historical museum, boat show, festival of arts
- Logging: Tahquamenon Logging Museum; Newberry
- Mackinac: State Historic Parks; Fort Mackinac, Historic Mill Creek Discovery Park, Colonial Michilimackinac, Richard & Jane Manoogian Mackinac Art Museum, Old Mackinac Point Lighthouse, Historic Downtown Mackinac, and Mackinac Island
- Marquette Co: Marquette County History Museum; traces the history of the UP in the Marquette area from Native American times to the present
- Marquette Maritime: Lake Superior and Great Lakes artifacts; lighthouse lens collection; Marquette Maritime Museum Association; in the old City Waterworks building, a one story, stone, hipped-roof Richardsonian Romanesque style structure designed by architect Demetrius Frederick Charlton
- Menominee Range: museums about the history of the Menominee Iron Range; The Menominee Range Museum; Glider & Military Museum; Cornish Pump & Mining Museum; Iron Mountain
- Mineral: AE Seaman Mineral Museum; Michigan Technological University; the official Mineralogical Museum of Michigan; collection of over 60,000 minerals, including from Michigan's copper and iron mining districts; a cooperating site of the Keweenaw National Historical Park
- Negaunee: Negaunee Historical Museum; house museum showing off a 19th century living room, dentist equipment, mining exhibits, and the city's history
- Ojibwa Culture: The Museum of Ojibwa Culture; St Ignace
- Ship Valley Camp: Valley Camp; lake freighter available for tours; Sault Ste. Marie; National Register of Historic Places historic vessel
- Ski Hall of Fame: US National Ski Hall of Fame and Museum; Ishpeming; US ski history
- Snowmobile: Antique & Vintage Snowmobiles; The Top of The Lake Snowmobile Museum, Naubinway, Michigan
- Sports Hall of Fame: Upper Peninsula Sports Hall of Fame; Iron Mountain; honors sports men and women have inspired the entire UP community in sports
- UP Heritage: Beaumier Upper Peninsula Heritage Center; historical museum and educational facility on the campus of Northern Michigan University; works to promote and preserve the history and culture of the Upper Peninsula; Marquette
- Wheels History: Wheels Of History Train Museum; Brimley
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