The best views of Pictured Rocks arches and sandstone is from the water, but rangers warn you must be outfitted for the ...

Yooperlites are a variety of sodalite-rich syenite found in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

The first proposal would open a backcountry cabin on a bluff overlooking Lake Superior near the park’s Twelvemile Beach Campground. The cabin would be available for public reservations online at ...

A LAKE SUPERIOR SUMMER JAUNT; Departure from Detroit Through the Sault St. Marie The Pictured Rocks Down into a Copper Mine The Mineral Wealth of Michigan. Share full article Aug. 24, 1862 ...

The elusive Lake Superior agate. Rockhounds scour Lake Superior’s shoreline for these rare banded beauties—from the western reaches of the Keweenaw Peninsula to the U.P.’s easternmost ...

How to explore a billion-year-old volcanic mystery along Lake Superior. The Upper Midwest once teemed with fiery geologic activity. ... At High Rock Bay, on the peninsula’s tip, ...

Yooperlites are rocks that fluoresce under UV light. The best time to search for Yooperlites is after a storm, when waves may have unearthed new rocks along the shores of Lake Superior.