Part community hub, part design statement, Atomic Marketplace pairs coffee with craft beer and bold architecture in Traverse City’s evolving south side. Just outside the postcard-pretty polish of ...

There’s more to Traverse City than Front Street. Explore its outlying blocks and experience mouth-watering bites, historical gems, lively bars and enough nightlife to brighten the dark of winter. New ...

It happened every year on November 10: if you were listening to the radio anywhere in Michigan, you’d inevitably hear the ...

David “Cowboy” Weiss was a wild-hearted, cocky and freshly minted cadet from Traverse City’s new Great Lakes Maritime Academy ...

Shipwrecks, storms, final words: historian Ric Mixter traces the Great Lakes' haunting messages in bottles. Before radio ...

View of Downtown Traverse City.

Celebrating the North’s craft beverage scene, across all seven regions.

Tucked in the limestone bluffs of the Upper Peninsula’s coast are the crumbling vestiges of an abandoned smelting town, Fayette. We go in search of the heartbeat of the past. Featured in the July 2003 ...

A monastery on Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula delivers delightful jam. On a windswept coast of the Upper Peninsula, a small band of devoted monks is carving out a life that balances work and worship.

A family penchant for tinkering and fresh tracks gives birth to Michigan-inspired skis with a joy-stoked cult following. We tap into the obsession of Shaggy’s Copper Country Skis. It’s 1908, in the ...

At the height of fall color, take a spin down Michigan’s most famously twisty and leafy two-lane—M119. (Even better: Make it a weekend.) It’s chilly enough for my husband to add wood to the stove well ...

Hop across the Mackinac Bridge this winter to St. Ignace to try your hand at ice fishing, a timeless tradition the locals are proud to share. Ice fishing in the Upper Peninsula is a ritual and this ...