The U.P.
Michigan's treasure deserves our attention 

No longer a hidden gem, Pictured Rocks inundated with record tourists

The people just keep coming.
It’s an onslaught of summer visitors to a destination that not long ago was considered a hidden gem found deep in Michigan’s Northwoods.
The number of tourists who each year trek into the Upper Peninsula to see the spectacular and colorful cliffs at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore hit a new record each of the last seven years.
This summer season is already off and running. Is this good for the U.P.?

On Lake Superior, a $1 billion eco-disaster is swallowing the coast

It is the enduring legacy of historic mining, a vestige of the Keweenaw Peninsula’s heyday as the world’s greatest source of copper.
For more than 100 years, roughly 50 billion pounds dumped in a pile so large it once extended a half mile into the lake, has been slowly, inexorably, eroding south.
As they move, the stamp sands swallow the coast and smother the lakebed, transforming miles of shoreline into a lifeless, apocalyptic hellscape that people liken to the surface of the Moon. It is a slow-motion ecological disaster unfolding across a century.

The land of magic and adventure

It is (or should be!) on every Michigander's bucket list. It's wild and untamed and you'll get addicted quickly. Just look at all of this magic:
-- Island access via foot bridge comes to Tahquamenon Falls State Park 
-- Abundant wildlife awaits discovery at Michigan’s loon paradise 
-- Above Kitch-iti-kipi: Turquoise Big Spring is majestic from the air 
-- The most colorful way to see Pictured Rocks is from the water 
-- On Lake Michigan cliffs, 1,400-year-old trees hide in plain sight 

-- Seney National Wildlife Refuge 

-- Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore 

Do you prefer to experience the beauty of the UP by watching videos?

There is so much to document in the wild land of the Upper Peninsula and often words don't do it justice. We sent the best to the U.P. to capture photos, video and amazing drone footage of this spectacular country. Here's all the eye candy. 

-- Michigan cedars estimated to be 1,400 years old

-- Expansion underway to add new lock at Michigan's Soo Locks

-- New pedestrian bridge at Tahquamenon Falls State Park

-- Kitch-iti-kipi: Michigan's largest freshwater spring 

-- See 740-foot long freighter pass through Soo Locks

- -See Miners Castle at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore

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