One of the most beautiful stretches of road in the entire Upper Peninsula can be found in Gogebic County, where CR-513 (Black River Rd.) parallels…
For years, Michigan residents have been well aware of the beautiful scenery at Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park. Now, the entire country is starting…
The first thing you notice about the Sand Hills Light near Mohawk in the Keweenaw Peninsula is how it doesn’t look like any other Michigan…
In the Keweenaw Peninsula’s small community of Lac Labelle sits a waterfall in a roadside park that at times looks so perfect it could almost…
Photo Gallery Friday is a regular feature on Travel the Mitten that will help showcase photos from places where one post just isn’t enough to…
In a previous post we took a look at the stunning Manabezho Falls in Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park. Just above that 25-foot drop on…
Once a key part of the Keweenaw copper operation, all that remains of the former Champion Mill near Houghton is a few crumbling structures and…
Surrounded by four Great Lakes and located right in the middle of all major early trade routes, Michigan was also an ideal place for military…
Michigan borders on four of the five Great Lakes (Michigan, Erie, Huron and Superior), which makes it one of the most-visited areas in the Midwest…
While the cliffs and waterfalls of the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore get a lot of the glory and most of the photographs, one more area…