Stephen King released his latest book, Duma Key, this past January. In addition to publishing another best-seller that topped the New York Times Bestseller List, there is another important note that every Yooper should be aware of.
On page 456 of the total 606 pages, Stephen King uses the word “Yooper”.
“Wireman was making [...]

Spring is finally here, we’re quite sure of it. In fact if there is another snow storm you can blame it on us.
Spring is consistently anticipated for the warm weather and the green grass. It gets better when you can leave the window cracked at night, have a nice breeze, and [...]

There are 148,939,100 square miles of land surface on Planet Earth…
42,610 of it belongs to the Upper Peninsula. That comes to 0.029% of all the Earth. And if you prefer fractions, that’s 1/3,449th of the Earth’s surface. We are just a speck.
The total surface area of Earth is 510,065,600 square [...]

A month ago we posted a blog entry about Why Lake Superior Kicks Your Lake’s Butt, a look at several fun facts about the world’s greatest lake that the Upper Peninsula is so fortunate to share.
After posting the entry Dan left a comment asking about the difference in length between Michigan’s and Minnesota’s shoreline on [...]

During the last several weeks Yooper Steez has reached a large and growing demand for Steez. Now, we’re even representing turtles. Let us introduce you to Aristotle Esio Trot…
“I am a well rounded Greek tortoise living in a fab pad in Northern Michigan with a dotty woman, her husband, their yappy Yorkshire terrier [...]

Scott Murrary from Helps, MI won a gold medal today for his double backflip in the best trick competition at the Moto X Championships. ESPN featured Murrary on the top 10 plays today, landing him the #5 play of the day.
Murray attempted the double backflip during the Summer X games and came up short. [...]

After asking “What is your favorite month in the Upper Peninsula?” it turns out that two months are tied for the least favorite months in the Upper Peninsula: April and December.
We launched this poll several weeks ago (check out our latest poll) and it took a long time before anyone listed April as [...]

…on the Yellow Dog Plains
Find the Salmon Trout River on Google Maps.
A photo by savethewildup on Flickr

Annette Summersett hits 100,000+ views on YouTube for her tribute to Brett Favre.

Getting 100,000 views on YouTube is no easy task. So until proven otherwise, Annette seems to be the biggest YouTube celebrity to come from the Upper Peninsula.
Annette… good work! If you’re out there somewhere come say hi. We’ll [...]

Spring is coming, I’m sure of it! The Upper Peninsula saw one more big snow storm this winter, hopefully it will be the last one for the season. After a number of warm days all the accumulated snow seems to be gone. But trust us, spring will come.
We have been anxious to [...]