Category Archives: Hiking & Biking

Fall Color Tours: Old Mission, Traverse City, Leelanau & Benzie

October 15, 2007 – 9:16 am

Our next stop (as designed by Travel Michigan) is the region of Northwest Lower Michigan containing Traverse City - Northport - Frankfort. This also appeared on Michigan in Pictures. There's a lot of links on Absolute Michigan that can add to your fun - type a town or something like "farm market" into the [...]

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Michigan Fall Color Tour: The Pictured Rocks

October 4, 2007 – 9:21 am

Miners Castle - October 2006
Let's jump over to the eastern side of the UP for the next color tour of Munising - Newberry - Grand Marais ... and the Pictured Rocks.
The highlight of this tour is of course the stunning Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore., (be sure to check out Lars Jensen's other Pictured Rocks galleries). [...]

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Michigan Fall Color Tour: The Keweenaw Peninsula

September 27, 2007 – 9:47 am

Our second fall color feature (in conjunction with Michigan in Pictures) is the Keweenaw Peninsula, way up north and surrounded by the icy waters of Lake Superior, is one of the first places in Michigan to be touched by autumn's paintbrush.
Michigan.org's Color Tour of Houghton, Eagle River, Copper Harbor starts you in the city of [...]

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Michigan Fall Color Tour: The Western Upper Peninsula

September 25, 2007 – 10:17 am

This was also posted on today on Michigan in Pictures along with a great view of Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park - check it out!

View from the Top by MoodyGoat
Ironwood - Silver City - Wakefield is the first Michigan fall color driving tour from Michigan.org that we're going to try and flesh out with photos [...]

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Bike Tour de xTwo: Tour de Leelanau & Tour de Troit

September 6, 2007 – 9:25 am

tour de two by various artists
Next Saturday (September 15, 2007) Michigan hosts two very different bike tours. The annual tour de troit is billed as a leisurely 40-mile ride through the streets of Detroit that begins at 10 AM explores the city's historic areas and sights. I'm not sure if I'd use "leisurely" and "40-mile [...]

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Get moving, Michigan with the annual Labor Day Mackinac Bridge Walk

August 23, 2007 – 9:22 am

The annual Mackinac Bridge Walk takes place every year on Labor Day.
This year's walk is the 50th. The Annual Labor Day Mackinac Bridge Walk on Michigan in Pictures notes that the first walk on Labor Day, 1958 drew just 68 walkers - we're guessing there's a few more in the picture to the right from [...]

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Quincy Mine, Copper Country and the Keweenaw Peninsula

August 17, 2007 – 9:46 am

Abandoned Quincy Mine by Terrapin Dawg
Last Friday the New York Times had a nice feature on the Quincy Mine and Copper Country (aka the Keweenaw Peninsula) that begins...
Four hundred feet underground, in a musty, dripping passage into the Quincy Mine, Ed Yarbrough pointed to a dark opening in the wall. “Here’s an old explosives bin,” [...]

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Share your Great Lakes story or photo

August 13, 2007 – 8:51 am

The July winners of the Healthy Lakes, Healthy Lives story & photo contest have been announced. The deadline for the August contest is August 20th, so there's still time to enter (click that link above for details!). They have been kind enough to allow us to reprint the 1st place story in the General category, [...]

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The Sleeper Lake Fire in the Upper Peninsula

August 10, 2007 – 8:25 am

MN DNR fire bombers by mryooperdewey
Ann Arbor based Edward Vielmetti has maps and links for the massive Sleeper Lake Fire that has burned about 20,000 acres in Luce County north of Newberry in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Gina Harmon of Superior Sights has some great photos and coverage of this devastating fire from a local perspective. [...]

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Photo Friday: Cloud over Lake Superior by Mickey Finn

July 20, 2007 – 9:55 am

Mickey Finn (Mike) says he enjoys trout fishing, fly tying, and the places where trout live.
If you enjoy those things, you'll probably enjoy his photos!
(he also wondered what kind of cloud this is - if you know, post a comment!)

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