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My family loves the UP. Great scenery, excellent grouse and black bear hunting; perhaps the best woodcock hunting in the world; fishing every place.

The Keweenaw is breathtaking: https://www.keweenaw.info/keweenaw-peninsula/eagle-harbor/great-sand-bay/

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That area ain't the real UP..............................just saying.

MM

Engineer or geologist?

Thanks, LL.

Years ago this guy named Nick Adams liked it, especially the fishing.

Nick Adams ( Jonny Yuma) !

Another would be Cully Gage.

Grouse hunting- great!

Deer hunting- I think there are like 4 deer in the entire upper peninsula

After my brother graduated from college with a Civil Engineer degree he landed a job with Harnischfeger Corp in Escanaba. Hunted and fished the area with him for several years. It was great. Ruffed Grouse and Timberdoodles all over the place, deer not so much. Fishing on the big lake was outstanding.

You have not lived until you picked and ate wild blueberries in the UP. Blueberry pie is a must.

Christmas and New Years we trailered our snowmobiles up there and had a blast.

Made a lot of friends with the salt-of-the-earth, hard working Finn's there.

Some of the U.P. is much like the Daks. My mom grew up in Utica so I have been to both places. Take the area north go HWY 28 and it is pretty poor deer hunting . I never hunted there , but been there many times. Seeing a deer is not exactly rare but you wont see 10 at a time neither. The southern area is not bad , but still, whenever I scout parcels of land for sale, there is still not a lot of sign. You will know where the deer are by how badly the cedars are browsed. Way up there, there are not enough deer to even notice browsing of Hemlock or cedar.

You got that right.
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It usually still has snowdrifts in the woods in June most years. Lots of nice hungry skeeters.

It’s a place where men are men, and the dogs run scared! I spent two years at Michigan Tech, and noticed it snowed a lot, and you were lucky to get 60 sunny days a year.

The fishin is good. For the brave or drunk, or brave and drunk, try the sauna and a bath in Lake Superior or just the snow.

As a former YOOPER i am a little biased , I love the U>P. It's not for everybody. Deer hunting is really great in the counties that are in the so called "banana belt" Menominee and Delta counties to be precise. There is lots of farm land in these counties. Grouse hunting has been bad the last few years
because of West Nile virus. Fishing is great as stated by others. Life along Lake Superior can be rough in the winter with as much as 300 inches of snow in a bad year as compared to less than 100 inches along Lake Michigan shoreline. There is a saying by old timers up there,... a farmer saw God walking along in the U P one day and asked him hat he was doing , God replied that he was working from home that day. It truly is God's country.

Others, especially TheLastLemming covered all the good spots, so I'll just add a few. The drive on Brockway Mountain Drive in the Keweenaw is beautiful. The shoreline there reminds me of the Maine coast around Eagle River and Eagle Harbor. Tahquamenon Falls is beautiful with an onsite mini brewery. One of their regular selections is Black Bear Stout. Think of Guinness without the bitter aftertaste. Paired with a fried or sauteed whitefish dinner and you're really close to paradise. In fact, Paradise is 10 miles down the road!

What is it, a hundred mile detour on the way to your fishun’ shack?

Forester

I was sorta thinking the same thing but couldn't put it as eloquently as you...

heard someone say yesterday they would be better off to seceed and become conservative south Canada.

Hahahaha!

Lead finisher on our last concrete crew was a big guy from north Michigan.

Faber, about 6'4" 250lb, good dude from what I knew.



Old fashioned dorky like us.


Is Faber a Finnish name?


Just us Natives and some Swedes and Norwegians around here