Today we are celebrating leap day! We’re very fortunate that Leap Day falls on a Friday, and we can celebrate with our weekly Photo Friday.
We wanted to celebrate by bringing you a photo that was taken on the last leap day. This was no easy task! Our idea was to search Flickr [...]

An Upper Peninsula winter can be one of the longest and coldest in North America. It’s snowing or blowing on most winter days. But a Yooper is prepared for every occasion and every blizzard. For every winter condition, for every kind of snowfall, for every temperature, and for social events both formal [...]

The sun never stopped shining, the temperature was around 35 degrees, and it was the perfect day for a snowboard and ski slopestyle showdown.
Rhythm Skate Shop in downtown Houghton offered some free gear to the best performers of the day. Mont Ripley offered some grilled hot dogs. And some of the [...]

It’s official, Yooper Steez is up and running, and for our 3rd Photo Friday we’re featuring the very first of our “Steez Photos“. The shoveling must get done, and what better to represent than the Yooper Scooper, a classic icon of the Upper Peninsula.
But we know you can do better. Shirts are available, [...]

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Ahh, the tee shirt (or t-shirt). It is the ultimate fashion icon of the United States as no other country wears more t-shirts than U.S. citizens. We love them. Everyone has got to have a dozen t-shirts (or several dozen like me).
Communicating with t-shirts is something Americans know how to [...]

320,000 People

Approximately 3% of the Michigan
Approximately 0.1% of the United States
Population density of 19 people/sq. mile

10 Largest Cities

Marquette (~19,661 people)
Sault Ste. Marie (16,542)
Escananba (13,140)
Menominee (9,131)
Iron Mountain (8,154)
Houghton (7,134)
Ishpeming (6,535)
Ironwood (6,293)
Kingsford (5,549)
Gladstone (5,266)

* Approximately 205,500 people live in towns with 2,000 people or less

16,452 square miles

About the size of Denmark
Larger than the state of Maryland
12,000 miles [...]

Today marks the 19th annual running of the U.P. 200 Dog Sled Race. The 2008 race will beginning in Marquette at 7:10 pm Friday evening. The Midnight Run begins in Gwinn at 6:00 pm. The race continues over the weekend with several viewing spots for spectators.
Mushers will head to Grand Marais [...]

Yoopers don’t need to go to Zales or Russell Stover’s to give their significant other a great Valentine’s Day gift. The Upper Peninsula has plenty of sweet things to offer.
Here’s our list of the best Valentine’s Day gifts you’ll find in the Upper Peninsula. But you better get moving fast, [...]

Phi Kappa Tau takes 1st place in the Fraternity Division of the 2008 Winter Carnival ice statues at Michigan Tech University. Their statue titled, “Van Helsing Calms Hysteria in Transylvania,” showed precise detail in a number of features. It would be incredible to spend some time seeing what techniques they use to make [...]

Last November I stumbled across a map on Google images. It took but a second of thought to notice that it was the ugliest rendering of Michigan that I had ever seen on a map. The Lower Peninsula was pretty horrible, but the rendering of the Upper Peninsula was even worse! For [...]