Founded by Father Jacques Marquette in 1671, St. Ignace trails only Sault Ste. Marie (1668) as Michigan’s oldest city. Marquette, a French fur trader and…
For anyone entering Michigan’s Upper Peninsula via the Mackinac Bridge, St. Ignace is a gateway of sorts for vacation and adventure. While many people are…
Michigan is home to more than 100 state parks, more than 140 state park campgrounds and 13,500 campsites, and nearly 900 miles of state park…
When it comes to Upper Peninsula state parks in Michigan, few are as popular or as easy to get to as Straits State Park in…
French missionary and explorer Jacques Marquette had a big hand in founding and developing two of the most important cities in the Eastern Upper Peninsula…