In Elk Rapids, The Dexter puts Michigan makers, custom design and regional craftmanship front and center. For years, Elk ...

Here are a few scenic ways to ditch the car and see Northern Michigan’s fall color from a different perspective.

Author Anne-Marie Oomen documents her personal struggle to rescue and nurture monarch butterfly pupae from parasites and ...

Four perfect trails we’d clear a Saturday for, plus where to linger afterward for lunch, cider, coffee or a sunset beer.

You can spend a perfectly good October day in Northern Michigan getting rained on in a fleece, eating an apple in your car ...

Along M-22, beach days tend to blur into smoked fish lunches, roadside cherry stops, sunset wine pours and sandwiches unwrapped on the hood of the car. From Onekama to Leland, Northport to Traverse ...

Buzzy openings, big names, sold-out menus. Join us on a delicious romp through what’s new on the North’s dining scene. A recent announcement by Detroit’s acclaimed Sarah Welch: the now former ...

On a windswept coast of the Upper Peninsula, a small band of devoted monks is carving out a life that balances work and worship. The monastery’s bakery, Jampot, draws thousands each summer in search ...

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

Imagine this: You’re sipping a cozy cuppa while driving through prismatic tunnels of trees, the pavement below—wet from a recent autumn shower—reflecting the blue-sky-fluffy-white-cloud morning above.

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 ...

Oysters, conservas and a singing lobster: Inside Umbo, the Traverse City restaurant everyone has been waiting for. For months, Traverse City diners walked past paper-covered windows and wondered when ...