One of Michigan’s most unique lighthouses can be found in the Upper Peninsula’s McLain State Park, where the Keweenaw Waterway Upper Entrance Light marks one…
The Grand Island East Channel Lighthouse gets a lot of attention from guests on Pictured Rocks Boat Cruises, Glass Bottom Shipwreck Tours, and the Riptide…
Grand Marais, Michigan is located on Lake Superior at the eastern end of the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. Though a permanent settlement wasn’t established here…
On October 6th, 2017, the stretch of US-2 between St. Ignace and Manistique in the Upper Peninsula was designated as Michigan’s newest scenic byway, the “Top…
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…
Interstate Falls is one of three large waterfalls located on the Montreal River, between the borders of Wisconsin and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Like Saxon Falls…
The Peninsula Point Light is one of the Upper Peninsula less-visited lighthouses, but the drive in to this remote beacon is worth the reward for…
The Keweenaw Waterway is a waterway that separates the Keweenaw Peninsula from the mainland of the Upper Peninsula. This waterway, sometimes referred to as the…
The Sturgeon River Gorge Wilderness in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is a unit of the Ottawa National Forest that covers more than 14,000 acres, including the…
Today’s Michigan Roadside Attraction actually covers two different spots in Eagle River that honor Douglass Houghton, our first state geologist and the namesake of Houghton,…