![Soo Locks To Close For Season Next Week: Our Favorite Freighter Photos from 2023](http://travelthemitten.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Algoma-Sault-Soo-Locks-June-2023-470x140.jpg)
The Soo Locks will close for annual maintenance on January 15th, so we thought it would be a great time to look back at the…
![Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan: 10 Awesome Things For Families and Kids](http://travelthemitten.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/20200706_104738-470x140.jpg)
As Michigan’s oldest city Sault Ste. Marie is full of historical attractions. As one of the bigger cities in the Upper Peninsula it also boasts…
![2022 Michigan Freighter Gallery: We Like Big Boats](http://travelthemitten.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/2022-Michigan-Freighter-Gallery-Federal-Ruhr-Rotary-Park-SSM-470x140.jpg)
One of our favorite things to do while traveling around Michigan is see all the Great Lakes freighters that visit our port or pass by…
![Karl's Cuisine and Superior Coast Winery & Brewery, Sault Ste. Marie](http://travelthemitten.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Karls-Cuisine-Winery-Brewery-Sault-Ste.-Marie-Michigan-470x140.jpg)
I love visiting Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan and one of my favorite activities while there is watching Great Lakes freighters as they travel to and…
![Photo Gallery Friday: Soo Locks Boat Tours Lighthouse Cruise](http://travelthemitten.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Soo-Locks-Boat-Tours-Feature-Photo-Point-Iroquois-Lighthouse-470x140.jpg)
Photo Gallery Friday is a regular feature on Travel the Mitten that will help showcase photos from places where a few pictures just aren’t enough…
![Michigan Roadside Attractions: Saint Marys Falls Hydropower Plant, Sault Ste. Marie](http://travelthemitten.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Cloverland-Hydroelectric-Plant-Tower-of-History-470x140.jpg)
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,…
![10 Things to See and Do in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan](http://travelthemitten.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Sault-Ste.-Marie-Michigan-Things-To-Do-470x140.jpg)
As Michigan’s oldest city, Sault Ste. Marie is full of historical attractions for all interest groups. The city’s position on the St. Mary’s River linking…
![November 10, 2015: Remembering the SS Edmund Fitzgerald on the 40th Anniversary of its Sinking](http://travelthemitten.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Edmund-Fitzgerald-Memorial-Whitefish-Point-470x140.jpg)
On November 10, 1975, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald and all 29 of its crew members were lost on Lake Superior during a fierce storm. The…
![Governor Snyder Highlights Two Hearted River, Soo Locks and Universities in Annual Upper Peninsula Trip](http://travelthemitten.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Goveror-Snyder-Kayaking-Two-Hearted-River-470x140.jpg)
Over the weekend, Michigan’s governor Rick Snyder ended his short annual trip to the Upper Peninsula. The trip was a busy one for our governor…