New York Times spends '36 Hours' in Michigan's Upper Peninsula

'There's almost nothing small about the Upper Peninsula'

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DETROIT – The New York Times brought their "36 Hour" series to the Upper Peninsula - and they loved it.

Steve Reddicliffe of the New York Times chronicled the three days he spent in the U.P., in a story published Thursday morning.

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There’s almost nothing small about the Upper Peninsula. Lake Superior is the biggest of the Great Lakes. Tahquamenon Falls is one of the largest waterfalls east of the Mississippi River. In square miles, the Upper Peninsula is bigger than Maryland. Its beauty is outsize.

But it is also remote. There can be ice on Lake Superior in June. Summers are short. All of which may explain why there are only about 311,000 Yoopers, as residents are known, many of whom are given to wry humor — Rodney Dangerfield in a deer blind. (In his book “You Wouldn’t Like It Here,” Lon L. Emerick, a Yooper himself, writes, “If you seek a polar climate, have a need to make yourself miserable or if you need to atone for a life of sin, then maybe you’re a candidate for our glacierland.”)

A weekend is not enough time here, but in nonpolar weather it is sufficient to hike, kayak, bike and get a taste of the peninsula’s endless allure (whitefish and pasties will be served).

Read more about his trip here.

 


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