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 ...

In the loop! Take a cool spin around Traverse City’s Boardman Lake this summer for a lollygagging good time. Here’s the intel + where to stop for sips and bites along the way. … ...

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

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

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

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

View of Downtown Traverse City.

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.

When a family with a love of food and hospitality reimagined the vacant land adjacent a corporate office, an unusual little farm named NanBop was born. The resounding question: can you grow a legacy ...

Fall in Northern Michigan, with its brilliant colors and fresh-start feel, is the perfect follow-up to summer; and fall in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is not to be missed. Read on to ...

There was a time and place during my childhood when I was sure my dad loved me. It was on our two trips each summer to the Watervale Inn in Arcadia, Michigan, traveling from my childhood home in ...