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Hunts' Guide to Michigan's UPPER PENINSULA
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JUST OUT!
A new edition of Hunts' Mapguide to Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
Over 300 entries, all conveniently located on maps and chosen because we think they are the coolest things to do in the U.P. (No ad tie-ins!) Great choices for restaurants, hikes, shops, adventures, museums, boat trips, waterfalls, vistas, road trips, and much more!
To learn more click UP MAP GUIDE
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MICHIGAMME
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Michigamme shops & museum. Gift shops, an art gallery, quilt shop, and history museum have turned a depopulated mining village and retirement community into a destination. ...
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Craig Lake State Park. Michigan's motor-free wilderness state park has five beautiful lakes, a 7-mile hiking trail, granite cliffs, excellent fishing and birding, paddling comparable to Boundary Waters, and splendid isolation among loons, moose ...
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Tioga River Roadside Park and waterfall. Along a rushing river with immense dark boulders, this is a great place for a quick break from driving ...
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Michigamme shops & museum
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The village's crafts, gift, and home décor shops, sometimes in charming historic buildings, cater to area retirees, to Marquette County residents, and travelers on U.S. 41/M-28. Many shops were early-retirement projects. Recent shops includ the homemade furniture at Parsonage Primitives (323-6111) and Virginia Olson's Treasure Chest. An ice cream shop called the Upside is also on Main Street.
Michigamme Moonshine art gallery is open year round. Locals have created a public library in the building that used to be St. Anne's Catholic Church. The energetic Frederike Roach of Michigamme Moonshine is happy to field general questions about "Moose Country" — the Michigamme/Champion/Three Lakes area.
Moose Days in fall include a 10k run and a children's moose hunt, in which kids earn their antlers by spotting for plywood moose throughout the town. Shops hold a two-weekend November holiday open house starting the first weekend after opening day of deerhunting season. There's a special luncheon, plus refreshments, luminaries, and more. A horse-drawn wagon picks up and drops of customers at every shop, free of charge.
Upside ice cream place
Not all shops are open Sundays in summer. Special points of interest, arranged from east by the lake going up the hill, include::
• CROCK & ROCKER. An eclectic gift shop, featuring eye-catching boutique clothing, including a small section for men. Mem. Day to Labor Day Thur-Sat 10-5. Labor- Day-Dec 1 open 10-5 Thur-Sat. 101 E. Main. (906) 323-6214.
• MICHIGAMME HISTORICAL MUSEUM. This museum conveys Michigamme's history with artifacts about logging and mining, fishing and hunting, the Moose Lift, and of course Anatomy of a Murder, a small part of which was filmed here. Life-size cutouts of Jimmy Stewart and Lee Remick make for a nifty photo-op. There are also reminders of the long time the area has been a vacation spot, with old outboard motors and vacation brochures to inspect. A log house has been moved onto the site. 110 E. Main next to Beary Patch. (906) 323-6608. Open Mem. to Labor Day, daily noon to 5. Free admission. Handicap accessible.
• MICHIGAMME MOONSHINE. Artists and art enthusiasts Frederike and Jerry Roach have turned the entire downstairs of their home into one of the Upper Peninsula's leading art galleries, full of accessible art, often inspired by nature, ranging from the abstract or expressionistic to the meticulously realistic, in a variety of media. Children are welcome. A new addition makes space for 40 artists, most with national reputations. Here are Bill Hamilton's watercolors, Jens Carstensen oil paintings Tom Larson's wood turnings, and Kathy Savu's folk-flavored memory paintings, folk-flavored memory paintings, often of scenes from her childhood in a forest community of Finns. Other choice works in glass, metal, pottery, wood, stone, mix media, lithography. Frederike curates six changing shows a year with artists' receptions at the gallery, and other shows in Marquette. 136 E. Main. (906) 323-6546. Open year-round, in summer Mon-Sun 10 to 5 (Tues by appointment). Winters Mon-Sat, Sunday by appointment. Wheelchair-accessible, including restroom.
• CHURCH IN THE WILDWOOD. A handsome frame Swedish Lutheran church from 1877 now houses a gift shop emphasizing hand-crafted U.P. things - pottery, twig and rustic furniture, birchbark baskets, and more. Few alterations have been made on the interior, which has stained-glass windows and walls covered in decorative pressed metal. 217 W. Main. (906) 323-6144. Open from Mem. Day up to Christmas, Mon -Sat 10-5, Sun 12-5. Handicap access: two short flights of steps.
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