This North Shore state park is loaded with picture-perfect scenery, hiking adventures, fishing and swimming options, and an ...

The 10.5-mile Chapel Loop at Pictured Rocks features dramatic sandstone cliffs, pristine beaches, and ancient waterfalls that ...

Just 20 feet shy of breaking the surface, this 1,000-foot-tall sunken mountain in Lake Superior is allegedly responsible for ...

Lake Superior beaches saw fewer closures because of elevated bacteria than sandy patches on other Great Lakes and U.S. oceanfronts in 2008, but some Twin Ports waterfronts still have repeated periods ...

Michigan’s summers are made for water. With more than 11,000 inland lakes and miles of Great Lakes shoreline, the state offers no shortage of spots to swim, wade or float. For many residents and ...

A Minnesotan, Connell instantly thought of Silver Bay and its black sand beach. He wrote to Curious Minnesota, the Strib’s reader-powered reporting project, to ask: “Does stamp sand pollution exist in ...

Lake Superior beaches will get regular checkups again this summer, the sixth year of a Great Lakes water quality program to check for E. coli and other organisms in areas frequented by swimmers, ...

The National Weather Service issued a warning about the high risk of rip currents along the Lake Superior shoreline for Friday. Dangerous swimming conditions for Park Point and Wisconsin Point beaches ...

Dredging crews will return to the Grand Traverse Harbor in Houghton County this summer as efforts continue to save Buffalo ...

The beaches at Grand Marais are excellent hunting grounds for the ancient Lake Superior agate, a semi-precious stone made up of concentric circles of microcrystaline quartz reddened by iron. Here’s ...

Anyone who lived in the Upper Peninsula this past winter, or anywhere in Michigan for that matter, will forever remember the brutal winter of 2013–2014 for its scarily low temperatures, icy drives, ...