Most people often think the beach is the best vacation spot, but lake towns offer a quieter, more practical kind of escape.

If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look about you.” The motto has been part of the state’s framework from the very beginning. But did you know that what we know as Michigan wasn’t always a peninsula?

Isle Royale National Park was established 85 years ago, on April 3, 1940. But did you know it had a ghostly twin?

but when they reached the area of Whitefish Point on Lake Superior, things took a turn. The crew decided to drop anchor and wait out the rough weather, the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society ...

As the ship entered Lake Superior’s Whitefish Bay between Michigan and Canada on Aug. 30, a gale came up. With no cargo, the ship was floating high in the water. The storm battered it until it ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. CORRECTS DATE This image provided by Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society shows the broken mast from the ...

CORRECTS DATE This image provided by Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society shows the broken mast from the Western Reserve, a merchant ship that sank in Lake Superior in 1892 off Michigan’s ...

The historic steamer had reportedly disappeared during a summer cruise in Lake Superior in 1892, resulting in the deaths of owner and millionaire shipping titan Peter G. Minch, his young family ...

The Western Reserve, a 318-foot steel steamer, was wrecked 60 miles northwest of Whitefish Point in Lake Superior on August 30, 1892. The ship got caught in a storm that caused the crew to drop ...