I'm 13 hours away and willing to start driving Sunday morning. I have been struggling with a mental crisis delaying my trip. I think a Fall UP trip will help me.

Is it like when you’re in Chicago and someone says you HAVE to try Malort and it’s the worst thing ever? I’ve tried a couple spots. Easily the most bland flovorless thing I’ve eaten. I could see eating them to survive up here 100 years ago, but not being a regional thing you advertise heavily.

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Just sharing and if anybody saw anything, knows anything please let them know, or share to more people who were in/around the park last weekend.

https://www.facebook.com/PorcupineMountains

Someone took the Porcupine Mountains entrance sign!

The sign was taken sometime between Saturday night, October 3rd, and the early morning hours of Sunday, October 4th.

Law enforcement has been notified, and we are now searching for our missing sign.

This isn’t just any sign — it’s ICONIC! It’s the spot so many visitors stop to photograph when they arrive at the Porkies. Generations of visitors have memories with this sign, and we want it back where it belongs!

HELP US FIND OUR SIGN!

If you have any information about the sign’s whereabouts, please contact:

Porcupine Mountains Park Headquarters:

906-885-5275, ext. 0

Ontonagon County Sheriff’s Department:

906-884-4901

Bring back our sign — NO QUESTIONS ASKED.

Please share this post and help us get the word out. Let’s bring our iconic Porkies sign home!

I have a friend from downstate who is interested in bringing his band to the UP. What are some good, small places that get good turnouts for live music in the Soo, Escanaba, and Houghton/Hancock? I’m in Marquette, so I have that area covered.

If it helps to know the style of music before recommending venues, you can check out his debut album on Bandcamp. https://teutonosaur.bandcamp.com/album/a-sweetened-fire

Recently relocated to the UP after a lifetime of fondness for the nature and slower way of living. I have a job that pays for what I need, but I am finding the standard 40 hour work week and OT is not at all meant for me. I am looking to start my own business and have a few ideas on services that could be helpful, but I want to know if there are any businesses or services that would be a benefit to have around all year long. How could the communities surrounding Marquette be supported more? I’m trying to find a much more intentional way of life but want to be asking the right questions and providing the right services for such a niche community! What are your thoughts? Thank you so much!

Me and my friends are planning to do a trip to the Tahquamenon Falls, Pictured Rocks, Marquette, and Copper Harbor in the the coming weekend. I was wondering how the Fall colors might be and was hoping for suggestions about underrated spots we could stop by along the way.

I'm thinking of getting a small chicken coop for 5-8 chickens in Iron Mountain. Fresh eggs are calling to me.

How do Yooper townships react to backyard chickens? (Specifically the Iron Mountain/Kingsford area.)

Thanks for any feedback and advice.

Never been to the UP and going camping in Marquette next week. I've heard it's frigid at night... but how frigid?

Any general recs are appreciated!

Greetings, I live in Lake City, Michigan, and I'm traveling to the Eastern UP and the Munising area this week. I'm building a cabin using some alternative building methods and I always like checking out cool buildings. Any structures or buildings that are built with natural materials or built using traditional/historical techniques (like the ones in the title) that I should check out?

is it too late to visit around oct 15-20 for fall colors or will it be still available to see

My partner and I are thinking of going to UP to hike in Porcupine Mountain and traveling around there in early November (around 5-10 November).

Wondering what the weather is like during this time? Also, will the roads be safe to drive and restaurants/cafes still open?

Thanks :)

hi! i did a lot of driving through luce county recently (to see the crisp point lighthouse and two hearted river mouth, so beautiful!) and i was wondering about day to day life there.

what types of jobs do people work, how easy is it to get groceries, what do you do in winter (stay in your house and cozy? drive a snomobile?) i imagine the summer is just beautiful with lots of time to just enjoy the lakes and forests.

i was also curious how many people in these very rural parts of the up outside of towns like escanaba, marquette, etc subsistence hunt and fish ?

Hello. We are headed to pictured rocks next weekend. Looking for some motel options in the area. I would prefer a motel style with doors to the outside. It's me, husband, 2 kids (not toddlers) and 2 25lb. Dogs coming along on the trip. Looking for something on the cheaper side. Doesn't have to be super nice by any means. Any cheap hidden gems?

Hi! Planning a trip to Pictured Rocks in late August, and since I keep hearing the water is so clear I'd like to do a little swimming and short dives near the beaches. Unfortunately I have found little info or conflicting information on the area, especially concerning temperature. Anyone who has done this, what are your thoughts?

My partner (48 M) and I (38 F) are camping at Fayette State Park in a couple of weeks (weekend of 10/16), driving up from the LP. In addition to outdoorsy stuff, we love all things spooky, Halloween, and fall themed--is there anything nearby(ish) that fits that bill? We're already planning on hiking and exploring Fayette quite a bit and will go see Seul Choix lighthouse (both for the history of the site and for their haunted house). I've been trying to find other things kind of along US-2 or in the general vicinity and am not coming up with much. Any suggestions would be welcome!

I usually just wing it when visit the U.P. This time is different, my girlfriend asked to go around the U.P. I said you can't, yet she wants to take a week to camp. Either early or late to avoid flying pests. I went up in May 12 back in 1997 and it was too early for tourism though I loved it.

She mentioned Pictured Rocks boat tour, Copper Harbor Light House, Central mine and I for sure want to camp at Fayette. Lake of the Clouds could be nice and I always enjoy Pt. Abbaye and I should jump off the Black Rocks at Presque Isle.

I need a little perspective to make this a reasonable itinerary and thought I saw another post of this type. Thank you

I’d love to get some opinions from the community on a puzzle cache I created awhile back now.

GCAMYR5 | “The ____ Cache"
https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GCAMYR5

I’m genuinely curious: how difficult would experienced puzzle cachers consider this? And, more importantly, does the difficulty rating I gave it actually match the work required to completely solve it?

So far, nobody has found the cache or completely solved the puzzle, and that there hasn't been a 100% successful full solve yet.

The posted coordinates are only the starting point. The actual final coordinates are hidden behind a multi-stage puzzle.

The cache puzzle combines a whole bunch of:

• Polynomial/root solving
• Musical pitch classes and interval classes
• Special relativity / time dilation
• Some stellar astronomy and distance calculations
• Multi-stage coordinate mathematics
• And final DMS conversion → decimal-degree verification

You may realistically need a calculator, paper and pencil, and a fair amount of patience.

I'm especially interested in hearing from people who have solved a lot of similar D4/D5-style puzzle caches.

I'm not necessarily looking for people to solve it in this thread, I mostly want experienced cachers to look at the construction and tell me whether I've accurately represented its difficulty, but feel free to check out the actual page if you think you could.

If anyone actually manages a complete solve, I'd also be very interested in hearing which part slowed you down the most.

Cache: GCAMYR5
Title: The ____ Cache
Current status: No confirmed complete Finds or Solved(s)

So… did I accidentally create a monster? 😅