Michigan Upper Peninsula

[Brent_and_Gina]

Hey Folks,

Another trip we're going on in July 17 for probably 3 weeks or so. Same thing please. Could you folks offer up your best to do, to see, must eats for the UP? Traveling in a 5W. Thanks!

Brent

[Matt_Colie]

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

[doxiemom11]

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.

[jensenst]

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

[dewey02]

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.

[Dick_B]

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'.

[rexlion]

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.

[dewey02]

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!

[Drbolasky]

Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore - take a cruise by boat during the evening hours as the setting sun gives some spectacular colors. If you do any hiking in this area take the most potent bug repellant you can find.
Whitefish Point/Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum - yes.

Suggest also Tahquamenon Falls, accessible by car (north bank) in the state park or by 2 ft. gauge railroad and riverboat (pick up the Toonerville Trolley at Soo Junction).

Mackinac Island (we took our own bikes) also Mackinac Bridge.

Campgrounds - at Mackinac we used the KOA at St. Ignace. It was OK but there are better choices in the area. There is a KOA outside of Newberry we used when taking the train/boat to Tahquamenon Falls. They provided a free breakfast, cooked to order. For Pictured Rocks we used Wandering Wheels two miles outside of Munising. Many here use the Munising Tourist Park right in town.

Do find a place to dine on an authentic UP pastie (pronounced PASS-tee). Enjoy & safe travels.

[michigansandzil]

Pictured rocks in Munising. Viewed either by a boat tour or kayak.
Porcupine mountains for hiking and daily ranger sessions. Book state park campsites early to get a site on Lake superior. While there, visit Adventure Mine in Greenland. It's an amazing cooper mine tour.
White fish point lighthouse, museum, keepers quarters and beach.
Go to Soo locks and time your visit with a freighter passing through.
Tahquamenan Falls, both sets of falls are nice but the upper falls are the biggest.
I've been in the UP in July and it's been 32 degrees at night. Bring warm clothes just in case!