The Best Stories, Sites and Fun From Around the Great Lakes State.
by Pinconning began as a Bay County lumber settlement. Then dairy farming, Dan Horn’s ageable Colby-style cheese and Inez Wilson’s highway marketing turned the small Michigan city into the state’s Cheese Capital.
by Pointe Aux Barques Township, located at the tip of Michigan’s thumb, is notable for being the state’s least-populated municipality with just 15 residents. Established in 1897, this private community spans 900 acres and features 66 cottages, a nine-hole golf course, tennis courts, clubhouse, and shoreline.
by How to read NOAA aurora maps, understand Kp values, and compare cloud forecasts before choosing a Michigan viewing spot. A Michigan northern lights forecast starts with activity above Earth, but …
by Archaeological evidence from a 1630s winter camp in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula suggests European-made beads, metal tools and other goods moved through Native American Great Lakes trade networks before sustained French …
by Planning a Michigan road trip? Learn how MDOT Live Cameras and the Mi Drive map can help you check traffic, snow, crashes, closures and summer construction before leaving home.
by Michigan’s oldest cities began as Indigenous communities, missions, forts, trading posts and river settlements. Some grew into major cities. Others were abandoned, relocated or covered by sand. This history follows 13 surviving communities and seven sites that vanished from Michigan’s map.
by The submerged Alpena-Amberley Ridge preserves stone hunting lanes, blinds and artifacts from a time when lower water levels exposed a vast land bridge beneath what is now Lake Huron.
by The story of the sinking of the Daniel J. Morrell is of a Great Lakes freighter that broke apart in a November storm, leaving four sailors on a raft. Three …
by The Dixie Highway helped bring long-distance automobile travel to Michigan years before Route 66. Its eastern and western divisions linked Mackinaw City, Detroit, western Michigan and Florida while reshaping tourism, road construction and roadside business.
by Tucked along the northernmost edge of Lake Michigan, the quiet village of Naubinway has weathered every boom-and-bust cycle the Upper Peninsula could throw at it. Its past is a timeline …
