In the Upper Peninsula: The BEST Small Town That You've Never Heard Of: Munising, Michigan 5K. 

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I've driven along Lake Superior many, many times, Munising to Marquette. It is even more beautiful than the camera can show. We live in Kentucky now and I'm not convinced that avoiding the harsh winters is worth not living among the natural beauty of Michigan. We're in our eighties now and actually considering back to Michigan.

I love the small towns in the UP and the way the people respect each other and are courteous to one another. That is the kind of America I grew up in. I am 74.

THESE MICHIGAN VIDEO ARE AMAZING. I was born and raised in MIchigan but have been in corrupt California for most of my adult life. I bought several pieces of land in Michigan and will be retiring there when I retire in 2 years. I bought 3 acres in St. Ignace but these videos are making me consider other places in the U.P.

What a beautiful town. How nice to see a place with not a speck of litter and no graffiti. It’s nice to know that such clean places still exist.

It is so good to see a small town like that is in such good condition very clean and looks like all the people really care about the town and how it looks.

I grew up and have spent most of my life in the UP. It didn’t take long after I was away to realize how great the place was. When I got married and had a family I moved to Germfask, I wanted my kids to grow up here.

Wow, I'm surprised by how nice this small city is!

I've delivered to the paper mill on the east side of Munising. It's such a beautiful city. The drive from the Mackinac Bridge was nice as well.

I'm from Zilwaukee MI, but I go to a cabin 12 miles south of Munising every spring and spend a lot of time in town. Love it!

Iv been there many times! I love it! My relatives are from calumet. Cool little town. When I was a little boy I used to be in awe wachting those miners comeing out of the shaft . I'll never ever for get it. Copper mines were still very active back then. Great memories. I'm 70 now and how time flys

Range lights are designed to be separated by a distance, and the rear is elevated higher than the front. They're a fixed light system that allows boats to enter safely into harbors, ports, bays, rivers, etc. by lining the two lights up together (one on top of the other). If you take an evening Pictured Rocks cruise and come back into the bay when it's dark, they explain how they work. At least they did on the cruise I took. Great video!

I'm from Munising but haven't been home much since leaving after graduation in 2000 so this was nice to see. Traditionally we flip santa off when we drive by him because, that's what it looks like he's doing. The Brick Building was Mather Middle School when I attended until 8th grade, tho it was a Highschool when my parents went. It's attached to the Elementary school and is I think mostly used for that up to grad 5. It's also the main performance venue for the community as it houses a fairly large stage and auditorium. 22:08 I'm so bummed out to see that the trees that used to grow along the front of the school are all gone. That median was always full of Maple trees...like...bad call cutting those down.

I grew up in Munising. I saw my Grammas house on ONOTA. The brick building u asked about was the old high-school Mather Highschool. They now use it as an elementary school

My dad's family has roots in Munising, Au Train and points south and west. I spent countless summer days in the area when I was a boy. I still try to get up there every once in a while, for the beauty and the nostalgia. Thank you for posting this.

The most awesome place ever…the people that live there are awesome 😎 too !!

Been waiting for this one. I visited in 2018 and it was definitely the highlight of my UP trip. Did the sunset cruise and some great hiking at Chapel Beach. Such an incredibly beautiful part of the country. Thanks for doing a video there!

A great drive down memory lane! We love Munising and all of the surrounding Superior Lakeshore. We try to make the trip up from Tennessee every couple of years or so. Thanks for the drive ❤️

This is a late comment, don’t know how I missed this video. My family went to Munising as our Pictured Rocks Trip. This was such a nice small town to stay in! My parents, sister, aunt, uncle, & cousins stayed at The Roam Inn which was very nice, had a great restaurant (Tracey’s), and huge pictures in the hallways of areas from the region. My grandparents stayed at the Pictured Rocks RV Park in Christmas and spent the last three days of our trip there. I wish I would’ve known about the Bay Furnace and the Rear Range Lighthouse, those would have been cool to see. Our family didn’t go on the tour, we instead rented a Pontoon Boat so we could take pictures closer than we probably should’ve, we never hit bottom, because my uncle was a great captain. We were there only 2 weeks before the video of the cliff face collapsing near the kayakers. The tour boats did produce quite a wake so we had a couple instances of the front of our boat going under the water. We saw the wreck of the SS Bermuda, very eerie but awesome! We also went to see the Munising Falls which is a hidden gem, very beautiful. A lotta nice restaurants that include Tracey’s(amazing pasta), Eh Burger, and Foggy’s Steakhouse in Christmas. We did a day where we drove to Tahquamenon Falls and Oswald’s Bear Ranch, both pretty far away. The one thing that Munising has that I had never experienced until that trip, is that they have a curfew alarm/speaker for all the locals. Tourists don’t have to follow this rule, but for everyone that is a resident of the town, especially kids and teenagers have to. Nothing like that in or near Metro Detroit where I live. Overall, I would definitely go back in the future, it was a very enjoyable vacation!

Great job, Chris. Your aerial views are nothing short of stunning. Such beautiful scenery and those beautiful Pictured Rocks, wow! The Grand Island lighthouse does look a bit spooky though :).

Thanks for video from home state of Michigan!! Been homesick

The UP is a wonderful area. I have Lived in southwest Michigan for over 20 years and have been making trips over the mighty Mac ever since. I usually start feeling the need to go up if it's been more than a year since my last visit. We were in the Kewanaw peninsula in July 2020. It's time to go back across the bridge real soon! Thanks for the videos and the cool information! Lake Superior is 10% of the world's fresh water!? Wow!!

Always a favorite stop on any trip to the UP! Munising Falls is one of my favorite waterfalls. There are over 100 waterfalls in the UP. I went swimming in Lake superior right there in AuTrain where the river empties into the lake. the warm river water makes it possible but don't get too far away from the mouth of the river! the lake is really COLD!

Hello great voice Chris. Thank you for the beautiful scenery, and the drive.

My wife and I spent about a week in the UP in 2021 and started in Newberry and worked our way right along the rim of Lake Superior to our final stop in Copper Harbor and it was both amazing and beautiful. We then turned south and headed back to our home just outside of the Great Smoky Mountain National Park in East Tennessee.

I’ve lived in munising all my life. The older brick building was once a high school and is now used as an elementary school.

Lake Superior does have some good fishing. Beautiful region.

That's a great video of the "U.P.". I grew up in the northern Lower Peninsula, but we'd routinely take drives to the Upper Penninsula when we could. I live in the Phoenix area now and have for years (and love it!). But every once in a while I get homesick and pull up a youtube video like this one. Thank you, Chris!!

Such a beautiful place, makes me want to move their and just take in the breathtaking beauty.

Beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

I designed and built the sign for Putvin Pharmacy, while I was working for a sign shop in Marquette, Michigan.

I love this.

My hometown. I now live in Florida, but I go back nearly every year. Great folks, beautiful topography, wonderful fishing and camping. Nice Job on your video. Unfortunately you missed the peak of fall. I saw a house we used to own and several of my friends homes. As a young man, I enjoyed a cabin on Miners Beach for many of my youthful summers before it became the focal point of the National Lakeshore. The area where Miners River joins Lake Superior and the sandstone cliffs give way to broad sandy beaches is magical. Living there was wonderful, and I made a silent prayer of thanks each time I topped the hill and looked down on the bay. But barely making a living, with little prospect of a bright future, was the tradeoff for the beauty, adventure, and camaraderie of the area. That choice was one I would have happily made for myself but could not ask my wife and children to endure.

I just love your videos,this is how I go home to detroit,mi.thank you for making these videos,e.williams

An interesting place. The cruise is a must. After the cruise, drive up to the scenic overlook. If traveling west towards Marquette, stop by the quirky "Lakenenland", which is an art sculpture drive on hard packed soil closer to the junction of M-28 & US 41.

Thanks for sharing

Great video 📹

Great footage. I go here every summer and live in lower Mich. I love grand island. The only sad thing is how much busier it’s gotten the last 10 years.

The pictured rocks is awesome and beautiful with awesome markings .i like Munising mi

Pictured Rocks is the most spectacular spot in the whole midwest.

I highly recommend Scotty's Motel. Cute mid-century style and as it says on their card: "Voted #1 Motel** **Named Scotty's" Gotta love it.

The inside of the casino in Christmas is 100% Christmas themed too!

Thanks!

We took a detour on the way home from a Memorial Day weekend trip to Mackinac Island and drove along the Superior Shore before heading back the the Twin Cities (Minnesota.) One of our stops was Munising where we explored part of Pictured Rocks, visited some waterfalls and ate some pasties at Miner's Pasty Kitchen. Although we only spent a few hours there, we really were amazed at all the spectacular scenery. So much so, we plan on going back there specifically for a a getaway next summer. Definitely want to take one of the cruises around Grand Island and explore Pictured Rocks and more waterfalls.

I do want to say though living in Michigan and learning all these cool facts and seeing places that I can't physically go to right now is really cool it's nice to see the beauty in Michigan although I'm not a fan of all the people this state is absolutely beautiful. And I'm not a fan of the cold but everything else is beautiful (: you really do a good job of making these videos entertaining educational and beautiful. I love watching all of your videos I don't care if you were just updating going through in that area I think they're all very fascinating :-) thank you for this type of content I'm super happy you showed up in my feed (:

Great video Might I suggest doing another in mid-winter.

i was born and raised in munising... ive lived there for 30 years and now live in florida... in fact you almost went by my house right before you turned on prospect street... the big old brick building you went by and was un sure of is the william g mather building... built in 1921... that was munsing high school untill 1980 when the school on the bay was built....there are over 250,000 tourists every year that take the pictured rocks tours... the bank clock was made broke... you didnt drive thru about 1/3rd of the town

I love this place.

Love your videos...

Love it

Very nice

The waterfall on the south side of the city is awesome

Just got back from the UP. Spent a couple of nights in Munising great place. In fact, the whole UP IS BEAUTIFUL. Just go in the fall, though, because they get a lot of snow in th winter, and I hear the bugs will carry you off in the summertime.

Feels weird watching the drive I take to school every morning in the beginning (The road between Christmas and the hill before browns edition is the worst in the winter when lake effect hits)

The way the front and rear range light house works is ships line up the lights together when coming into port

You get a really good view of grand island from the Holiday inn express.

Nice town

The Dairy Queen in Munising (west side of town on the highway towards Christmas) is the best you’ll find anywhere. Supposedly the owner deviates from the franchisee guide and substitutes local ingredients whenever possible. I have vacation property down near Manistique and the Dairy Queen is definitely worth the 35-minute drive when I’m there.

Gonna start mapping out my personal experiences while you drive through. 18:42 if you go straight there's a trail called frogs hallow where I take my truck sometimes it's known for a mudpit at the middle of the trail. 19:04 turn left before terrace motel and you'll find the old ski hill, it was shut down after a teenager going up the skilift was wearing a scarf that got wrapped around the rope connected to the cable that goes around the pulleys and was strangled at the top when the cable passed through the enclosed pulley. 21:34 the old brick building is actually the elementary school, pre through 5th grade, funded by William Mather it was originally the highschool before the current middle/highschool was built. This is where I went to elementary school and I have great memories, the school was equipped with a 2 story auditorium and under is "the pit" with colosseum style setting around a basket all court. Hidden behind the wall is a pool that was shut down, I remember sneaking into it with my friends and exploring the old locker rooms and 15 ft pool filled with stuff. 22:14 the old building is a apartment building mostly with older residents. Some more spots in munising: 5:50 red sign on the left is theis for the lighthouse on the other side and on the sign side there is a great spot to pitch hammocks. 7:43 on the right is a overlook for grand island it's a great spot to eat your food. 17:46 you should've went east of munising you can see the paper mill and above it is the end of a power line trail that overlooks the whole town with a perfect sunset picture over there town, to get to the trail you continue east through the roundabout and turn right on Connors road until you see a intersection with Miller road and Connors road and you turn right instead of left onto Miller road and take that power line trail its not too rough. I've pitched tents and thrown parties up there. You could also continue east through the roundabout and turn left onto Washington street then you hit sand point road where great sunsets are

old brick building is William G Mather which was once the high school but now serves as the elementary school I believe.

I took my family ln 2021. Beautiful town. I stayed at otter lake campground which is a nice quiet place to stay. Stop by capn Ron's for the best smoked fish sausage. I will definitely return.

I live in southern Indiana near national forest. I've also been to the UP. One thing they have in common is lots of wooded national forest. It leaves no room for economic development. In this day and age tho, that's a good thing, and a bad thing.

If I remember correctly, I went one July and was amazed to hear that the lake was 47 degrees F.

I always love that elevator music.

Not only have I heard of it, I've been here before >:)

Enjoyed the video! I live in the Western UP, right on the lake in the small town of Ontonagon, but I am in Indiana for 20 days, and I miss my home and the lake. Notes...Most UP high school football teams have less than 11 players on the field...I think the 8-man team is the norm. Also, most Yoopers would not be offended by the label of "Flannel shirt wearing hill-jacks"...Pretty much what we are.

My wife and I stayed at a log cabin right on the lake just west of Munising, I'm not sure if she is still renting it out though. It sleeps 23 but it was just the two of us and we got a decent deal because it was in between summer and snow mobile seasons. We went hunting for yooperlites but didn't find any.

The trouble with Munising is wealthy property owners who DON'T Live in town, but only visit. They drive up property values but don't shop locally . Then they take off for the bulk of the year , leaving the town unaffordable for the locals who have always been scraping & clawing to exist there ... Whatteryagonna Do ⁉

Looks like a town that use to dot the whole US, quit and peaceful, nice place to raise a family, where your not afraid to let children ride and play around town, everyone know everyone, something that we don’t have now, neighbors helping neighbors

This town is only 24 minutes away from a boy scout camp I used to go to. The camp was called "camp Hiawatha" also one day we took a 15 mile hike in the town to look at the 5 waterfalls in the area. There was another waterfall between alger falls and tannery falls but you had to pay to see it. Also we had a choice the councilors gave us we could either go out on lake superior on sea kayaks or take a 15 mile hike to see waterfalls. Also I'm from Wisconsin and camp Hiawatha is the only scout camp in bay lakes council that is not in Wisconsin

Back in the day that casino in Christmas used to basically be a single wide trailer. I remember us stopping there for a few so my Mom could go in and waste some money on the slots. This would have been in the early 90’s.

Huge rock cliffs along the Mississippi River. 😉

Great job showing one of my Fav. places. :) God's Country,,for sure.

Remember the old DOG PATCH SALOON from back in the 1960's!!

I remember when I was a kid in the 60s Christmas had a black bear in a chain link fence pen you could buy a soda pop for it.

Nice video. I grew up in that area. FYI, "Au Train" is pronounced by the locals as "Ah Train", not "Ow Train". In the Upper Peninsula, "sauna" rhymes with "town" and "frown" and "noun", not with "saw" or "jaw". "Au Train" rhymes with "quatrain" or "Bahrain".

Front and rear range lights work when you see them from a distance one light on top of the other tells you the way into the harbor.

I know it well, I live an hr away from it, it is a beautiful place, the whole UP is, winters can be Brutal!! though

I love these kinds of videos, to ring around little towns in interesting places, but it's pretty lazy to not even Google about that rear range lighthouse. It's easily searchable.

Should have waited another 45 mins to shoot video, casn't see much, too dark. I still watched it all~thanks!

The Dells on the Wisconsin River 😀

L.O.L. Hope to get back up to U.P. pretty soon.

Close to Wisconsin within Lake Superior

Born and raised there. Return multiple times per year. We never heard of Wick$trom, ever. I get your explanation, but seems a foolish reference. And TBH, I have never heard the term hilljack used to speak of people from there? Glad you showed the town off a bit...Hope you spent some $$ there.

You meet to see Christmas with a gale blowing off the lake in Dec.

18:30 sounds like a cool dude.

Moved to Munising 3 years ago, truly God’s country

Chris are you from flint mi?

Achieving fusion power would help these northern locales. Sure, people might want a summer home there: Timidly, I suggest that, somehow, adjusting property taxes might help--then, the UP may achieve a tourist economy more akin to Colorado's, Wyoming,'s or Montana's (Vermont, etc.). Push snowmobiling, ice fishing,, snowshoeing, x-country skiing, survival camping--put on crazy like minded, media-hog contests--get attention. You don't see Moab, Utah complaining! Face it: This is a tourist destination and economy--re-invent! Go for year-round--but, do it right!

OH YEAHHHH... I would say check out the area just south of Gaylord, MI... but it's too pure for cameras. ;)

In Microsoft Flight Simulator, I spawned my plane in a small Munising dirt runway for no reason

I wanna go with you on these drives :(

I'm work from home gang and coming to the UP. just wait until 20 years from now when everywhere California to Texas has no water.

Seems deserted no cars. My kind of town!

Been there done that

Did you not eat at The Dogpatch???

I agree with you, that algorhythm is horrible !!

you would think if they wanted more people they'd lower the price of their homes.

I have been in Michigan my whole life I've never heard people who live in the u p is referred to as hill Jack's!

Are poisonous barrels dumped by the CCC many years ago.