From the beaches of Sleeping Bear Dunes to the wilderness of the Upper Peninsula, the most splendid Northern Michigan vacation destinations are only a short road trip away. Get out your map and uncap the marker. We’re here to help with 11 Great Lakes State getaways...
When folks of the Upper Peninsula head into the sauna, they enter the tradition and sweet wackiness passing among the brothers and sisters of Yooper soul.
7000 Years before pasties, the ancients mined copper on the Keweenaw. We go looking for evidence of Early Yooper Man.
Whether you're searching for grab-and-go sandwiches at a casual hangout or an elegant spot for date night, we've put together the ultimate Traverse City restaurant guide. Dive in to find out what is being served up across town. Traverse City Restaurant Guide BLD:...
Climb to incredible ridge-top views of Good Harbor Bay and Pyramid Point at Whaleback Natural Area. When Jeff Smith joined the magazine in 1981—and when he wrote this piece as the Editorial Director in 2005—the view from one of his favorite Northern Michigan spots was...
Think of it as a holiday. Think of it as a celebration. Think of it as a living, active, fun love-note to our region and our health. The All-in-One-Day Day mission is simply to get outside with friends and do as many activities—both winter and summer—as...
Walking into the wild snowscape of the dunes reveals a secret world this winter-loving writer always imagined. The beauty is, it really exists. Snowshoe Sleeping Bear Dunes for an experience you'll never forget. One sunny winter day a few years back, I was driving...
Traverse City committed to meeting 100 percent of city operations' electrical demands with renewable energy by 2020. Then the city took it a step further promising to use 100 percent renewable energy community-wide (houses and businesses) by 2040. Here's a flyover of...
We asked Kevin Dennis, Park Supervisor at Tahquamenon Falls State Park, what he’d tell a friend to do when visiting the place he’s worked for 15 years. Here are his favorite things to do at Tahquamenon Falls. Walk to the brink of the Upper Tahquamenon Falls. They’re...
Scott Tucker, who signed on as superintendent of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore two years ago, has spent 22 years of his 22-year career in the National Park Service. He helped oversee the grounds of the White House and D.C. monuments for 15 years, trekked some...
With trout season opening day at April’s end, we check in with legendary river cleanup leader Dr. Norm Fred, the man behind Boardman River Clean Sweep, for inspiration and advice on how we can help keep our favorite streams free of trash and full of fish. So, picking...
An Interlochen Public Radio interview with Morgan Springer and Pulitzer Prize winner Eileen McNamara, author of a recent book about Eunice Kennedy: Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World. IPR’s Morgan Springer will be guest host for the April 25, 2018, National...
About 30 million people in the United States have been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, and an estimated 84 million more people are thought to be pre-diabetic, that is, in a condition that could lead to full-blown diabetes if health habits are not changed. “Those are...
Each year, women in Northern Michigan give birth to about 5,000 babies, and of those pregnancies, about a third are considered high risk. The region, however, has not had a robust network of services for high-risk pregnancy. High-risk-moms-to-be have had to travel...
Barely out of college and at the dawn of the Great Recession, Drew Philp did the opposite of what nearly every other grad at his alma mater, University of Michigan, was doing, and different from what virtually everybody else in the entire Motor City region was...
The Food and Drug Administration surprised—and pleased—the diabetes medical community this year when they approved a new, high-tech insulin delivery system for Type I diabetics six months sooner than anybody expected, including the maker, Medtronic. The device, called...
Some say this restaurateur with the audacious run in Traverse City’s food biz is fearless. He doesn’t see it that way. Meet Simon Joseph, the man behind the mini-empire spawned by the food truck Roaming Harvest. This story is featured in the March 2018 issue of...
Crosshatch's day-to-day mission involves things like loaning farmers a chicken-plucking machine, hosting a popular farm convention, helping Joshua Davis write an album, convening artists to hang out, convening farmers to hang out, holding dances, hosting skill swaps...
The more researchers learn about the earliest years of a child’s development, the more they see how important those years are to the long-term development of a child. The Healthy Futures program in Northern Michigan was created to make sure those earliest years,...
Kryptós ... it’s the Greek word for hidden, and when it was imported to English as “crypto,” it became a combining word, stuck onto the front of other words to mean hidden this or hidden that. Cryptogenic stroke is an example. The medical term refers to strokes with...
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