Michigan Upper Peninsula

Awesome tips and sites to see guys! Sure appreciate all the help you'd like to give.
Brent

I really liked Munising Tourist Park Campground. Located on the bay, we had a water front site! As was said the boat tours are great! You can also rent a pontoon boat and do your own exploring of Grand Island!

Loved it up there. But definitely go later July or August! We were there July 6-9 and it was cold!!!!! 55 and rainy when we arrived and 60 and sunny when we left! A week later it was in the 80's. still beautiful though.

There's a nice CG almost midway between Munising and Manistique called Jack Pine. Real nice place, and you could use that as a base camp for sightseeing in the middle of the UP for several nights. Close to Germfask, which has canoe and kayak rentals as well as some of the other spots people already mentioned.

My favorite UP place is Union Bay CG in the Porkies. Plenty to do there and within an hour's drive, even more to see and do.
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dewey02 wrote:
Kitchi Ti Kippi is a must see! (Google it :) )

A very cool stop !

dewey02 wrote:
And you definitely need to eat a pasty - spelled with a "y". Make sure it has red onions and rutabagas in it.

Content varies from shop to shop. Purest say meat potato and carrot, only. I had heard other say rutabaga AND parsnip. I have never spent enough time in the UP to try all the varieties.

I have had chicken pastys and they are good.

Try to work in the shipwreck museum at Whitefish point. My wife enjoyed all of it immensely, I could not. I was a little too close to home for one that lost friends on the "Fitz".

Matt

Copper Harbor, Lake of the Clouds, Arch Rock on Mackinac Island is unique. St Ignace is a small town and you can catch the ferry boat from there to the island. The Soo Locks is another.

Quincy mine copper mine tour in Hancock, Jam Pot in eagle harbor. Copper Harbor. These are on Keweenaw Peninsula. Great city Rv park in Houghton on the river

Up by Munising, a great little campground with spots right on Lake Superior is the USFS Bay Furnace campground. It has nice separation between sites and some all sunny sites and some wooded sites. Doesn't have that parking lot/open field feeling you get from some private campgrounds. No electric, though.

Do a Google search for `_______ tourism' and put the State, city, or area in the blank space and read what the specialists recommend and/or search this Forum for `upper peninsula' or `Michigan' and search the results for `upper'.

dewey02 wrote:
Kitchi Ti Kippi is a must see! (Google it :) )

And you definitely need to eat a pasty - spelled with a "y". Make sure it has red onions and rutabagas in it.
If you are looking for a pastie, that is a VERY different thing and you'd have to look in a very different place!

I was going to mention Kitchi-Ti-Kipi (aka Palms Book SP) as well. While in the area, Fayette SP has some historic buildings and artifacts from the 1800s.

Farther west, I think Bond Falls near Paulding is one of the prettiest waterfalls around. I have been there several times. The Porcupine Mountains SP is north of there; the east unit has the high overlook of Lake of the Clouds and the west unit offers a pleasant walk along a river with 3 small waterfalls as well as a short walk to Lake Superior. The west unit's CG is more rustic than the east. Another good place to camp is the municipal CG in Ontonagon.

For Pictured Rocks, try to hit the sunset cruise on a calm, sunny day for best light on the rocks.

In Mackinaw City, you have a lighthouse in town and 2 more west of town. Be sure to stop at the local bakery for some great cinnamon bread or pecan rolls.

There are some nice bits of lake view around Munising as well as on US-2 between Engadine and St. Ignace. You'll see places along the latter highway offering smoked fish for sale, and it can be quite good.

The pasty is similar to a pot pie. You can get it with gravy or with ketchup; I recommend gravy.