Michigan Roadside Attractions is a periodic feature on Travel the Mitten that will explore the many interesting things that can be found on the highways,…
Michigan is home to more lighthouses than any other state, and while many of these beacons guide mariners past treacherous shoals, reefs and rocky shorelines…
Author Ernest Hemingway spent a great deal of time in Michigan in his younger years, and many of the places he visited are prominently featured…
Michigan Roadside Attractions is a periodic feature on Travel the Mitten that will explore the many interesting things that can be found on the highways,…
Any Michigan resident who has visited Mackinac Island can list off a handful of reasons why they find it so charming: countless historic locations, excellent…
On our recent trip to the Upper Peninsula, we had the opportunity to do some exploring in the Keweenaw Peninsula. We stopped at the Bete…
Escanaba quickly became one of the most important towns and ports in the Upper Peninsula in the 1860s, and sandbars in the Little Bay De…
The small community of Kearsarge north of Calumet (population less than 800 as of 2010) in Houghton County was named for the USS Kearsarge, a…
In 2013, the Michigan Hemingway Society placed a historical marker next to the East Branch of the Fox River near Seney, Michigan to commemorate the…
The River Road National Scenic Byway travels alongside the Au Sable River for 22 miles beginning in Oscoda and South Branch. One of the highlights…