Where is the upper peninsula
Why You Should Vacation to Michigan's UPPER PENINSULA!
what's up outdoors peeps I just got back
from a vacation to the Upper Peninsula
of Michigan and while I wasn't
necessarily focused on filming
throughout this vacation I did bring
some of my camera equipment and I wanted
to showcase some of the beauty of the U
P I know this isn't my normal goofy
fishing video although I do fish in this
video but I actually thought this would
be really cool because I know a lot of
you also love be outdoors
and then on top of that I had a few
points that I wanted to bring up that I
thought were important I'm not sure
those at the very end so stay tuned but
for now I want to talk about the journey
which we took I went up there with my
girlfriend and this was my first ever
trip to the Upper Peninsula on the first
day we left early afternoon we actually
only got to a spot called Vanderbilt
Michigan it's not even in the U P yet
but we just crashed there had some
dinner and then left early in the
morning the next day and that's when we
got to the Mackinac Bridge which is by
the way outstanding and that was pretty
awesome so throughout this video I'm
gonna overlay the footage which I took
as we were driving over the bridge I
mean I'm used to big bridges because I
lived in California for a while but this
one was just absolutely gorgeous and I
was just pumped up when I saw it Wow as
I made it over the bridge we officially
made it to the U P and this is where we
kind of just explored around on the
beach I guess that would have been on
Lake Michigan because on the west side
of the bridge is like Michigan on the
east side the bridge is Lake Huron
welcome throw to you BA we were just
messing around on the beach and just
kind of walking around sightseeing but
the first major place we wanted to go
was actually a place called and kitschy
to Kiki and it's basically like this big
spring it's super super deep clear water
and it's got this little thing that's on
a pulley system and it's kind of like a
dock and you float out there and what's
awesome about it all of us fishermen can
agree there's these huge lake trout and
it's like 45 feet deep and you can see
to the bottom and you just see these
huge lake trout swimming around
unfortunately I can't fish if I could
have fished you know I would have I
would have tossed the metric and they
probably would have chopped it
regardless this place was awesome I
would definitely definitely definitely
recommend going to catch the key B if
you are up north
after exploring Kitsch to Kiki we've
made our way over to taquamenaw n Falls
which is where our campsite was for the
night now before getting to to Kalama
nan Falls I had actually been looking at
it online and I was really really pumped
about it and getting there it did not
disappoint there's basically a lower
fall section and then upper Falls and
you can actually take a hike all the way
up to the Upper Falls from the Lower
Falls that's about eight miles roundtrip
we got about a mile and a half in and we
cut it back because there was a ton of
mosquitoes out and honestly we were
super hungry regardless though super
cool hike pretty strenuous I would
definitely recommend doing it I would
like to get back and do that hike
regardless we did go to the Upper Falls
and I gotta say that is a sweet
waterfall basically the water is like
super light copper toned and I think
that that is something to do with like
the tannic acid in there from the trees
I don't know of a science behind it but
it looks really cool and I was pumped
about it that night we camped out apt to
comment on Falls State Park and I gotta
say the facilities were amazing and I
super enjoy to that campsite so I
definitely want to go back but after
sleeping on the ground getting up
relatively early we decided we were
gonna go to whitefish point which is
basically that little point on the Upper
Peninsula and we're just gonna explore
around there definitely is super pretty
Beach that was my first time ever
experiencing Lake Superior gorgeous Lake
it's huge and it's super awesome so I
was pretty pumped about that but as we
made it out of a whitefish point we just
kind of shot west from there and
explored along the way this is the part
that a lot of you are waiting for we did
stop at a couple little lakes along the
way and I found this one and
surprisingly I actually did in fact
catch a smallmouth bass Nidre
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upper peninsula smallmouth bass baby I'm
not here for fish and I'm just here for
camping and exploring but I tell you
what you can't argue about catching
small E's I love small he's a little
nattering action baby it's juicy it's
just too juicy ladies and gentlemen I
love smallmouth bass especially in the U
P now unfortunately there wasn't a ton
of Bank access at this lake so I didn't
end up catching another fish and
honestly this trip really wasn't about
fishing but I had rods with me because I
always leave home with fishing poles
because I always think there's that
little itsy-bitsy chance I'm gonna catch
a fish that was a good time
regardless after that we shot up north
and we went to a place called Grand
Marais it's just a cute little town we
grab some lunch and then we started
moving our way out west now the thing is
that's really funny here is we got on
this road I don't think I have any
footage but essentially we on this one
road and that thing was rough
I had to drive probably 20 miles an hour
because that thing was just gravel and
it was bumpy it was brutal but we
finally did reach pavement and then it
was smooth sailing from there and then
we actually made our way out to muna
Singh which is where pictured rocks
national lakeshore is and so we just
kind of settled in for the evening
relaxed and then the first thing in the
morning we got up and did like a
kayaking excursion my girlfriend and I
were both in a tandem kayak and we kayak
too long pictured rocks national
lakeshore unbelievable definitely would
recommend 10 out of 10 definitely
something that everybody should do just
because it's well you're super active
while you do it
but at the same time you're getting
awesome sites and here on the water
can't complain there the only complaint
was that the tandem kayak did not have
any space for fishing gear not cool guys
not cool unfortunately on that
particular day it was super windy so we
could only go three hours in the kayak
rather than six but quite honestly three
hours was plenty so I'm not going to
complain too much as we left the
kayaking thing we kind of cleaned up and
then we actually just shot further west
and we made our way to Marquette
Michigan which is I think is the biggest
town in the U P by a whopping 21,000
people really cool little town but we
actually did a lot of hiking or
there and this is actually my favorite
part of the trip I don't do a lot of
videos about hiking because quite
honestly I just kind of find them boring
to make a video about it but I gotta say
this sites here were incredible a couple
of those trails around Marquette I would
definitely recommend if you are gonna
make your way up to the peninsula you
should definitely hit those spots
basically hiked up got on this kind of
strenuous climb up some rocks and once
you got on the top of this big boulder
you just had you can just see for miles
now I'm not gonna say that this was
anything like like a Colorado hike where
you're up 12,000 feet in the air this
was more like 1200 feet in the air but
it was enough to where you had a nice
vantage point of Lake Superior as well
as just all this forest fortunately I
got quite a bit of footage and hopefully
the footage does it justice
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after our hikes I think we had like
28,000 steps so we were pretty much
brutally exhausted we caught a couple
beers had some dinner and called it an
evening
the next day we actually made our way
down back to the lower side of the Upper
Peninsula and ended up staying on the
Mackinac Island which was awesome took a
little ferry boat out there got out to
the island and rode bikes around on the
island there's no cars out there so it
was really cool we just had a stated a
little bed and breakfast there in town
and I got to say if you're looking for
just kind of like a cute little place to
stay maybe with your family it's super
kid friendly I would definitely
recommend that as well because it was it
was a really neat experience and it was
a great way to end the trip by that
point we were feeling pretty you know
tired and kind of gross from all the
hiking and exploring and it was nice to
just kind of clean up relax and ride a
bike around have a nice dinner and then
the next day we shot south and made it
back home okay so why did I share all of
that with you well quite honestly I just
thought that a lot of you would enjoy
the video footage that I took in this
beautiful beautiful place but on the
other hand I thought it would also be
valuable because I think it's really
valuable every now and again to
disconnect I've talked about this a
little bit in the past but while I was
on this trip I basically forced myself
to disconnect solely because the Upper
Peninsula does not have great cell phone
service in most areas
so I wasn't able to get distracted by
emails or social media and it was really
nice to just kind of live in the moment
and experience Mother Nature and just
the beauty around me so for those of you
that are looking for a cool vacation I
thought maybe I could share the Upper
Peninsula with you and maybe it's a
place that you would eventually want to
go as well anyways I'm done rambling I
hope you enjoyed this video will
probably get back to some good old
fishing in the next one but thank you so
very much for watching we'll catch you
next time
you
