When two squeaky-clean college students, Brad and his fiancée Janet, find their car broken down outside a mysterious mansion, their night takes a wildly unexpected turn. Old Town Playhouse will ...

Filmmaker Aaron Peterson, Down Wind Sports owner Bill Thompson and the unofficial mayor of the Upper Peninsula, Bugsy Sailor, ...

Some cookbooks are simply about recipes. Others, like Maureen Abood’s, are about memory, connection, and the joy of passing ...

View of Downtown Traverse City.

Celebrating the North’s craft beverage scene, across all seven regions.

A family penchant for tinkering and fresh tracks gives birth to Michigan-inspired skis with a joy-stoked cult following. We tap into the obsession of Shaggy’s Copper Country Skis. It’s 1908, in the ...

Trace the entire path of Michigan’s most iconic highway, M22, where there’s no shortage of big blue views and even bigger fun. Way up here in Michigan’s pinky, a ribbon of road defines a way of life.

Comb Leland’s beaches for pieces of colorful lake-tumbled slag, locally and affectionately known as Leland Blue stones. Dive in to learn how they were created, the best times to rock hunt and Michigan ...

Tucked in the limestone bluffs of the Upper Peninsula’s coast are the crumbling vestiges of an abandoned smelting town, Fayette. We go in search of the heartbeat of the past. Featured in the July 2003 ...

Imagine this: You’re sipping a cozy cuppa while driving through prismatic tunnels of trees, the pavement below—wet from a recent autumn shower—reflecting the blue-sky-fluffy-white-cloud morning above.

I’m looking at this black and white photograph, a view that captures the current of the Au Sable River at Grayling’s Stephan Bridge. It’s about 1900. In the foreground, the river meanders through ...

Our destination is a sand dune. Exact location, TBD. I’ve cruised past the rolling dunes along Highway 2 plenty of times while en route to other U.P. locales: Grand Marais, Munising, Marquette. It ...