• Hanka Homestead Museum (7 mi W of US41 on Aneheim Rd), Attraction: 100-yr old Finnish farming homestead, 0$

• Black River National Forest Scenic Byway (CR513), Attraction: Follows winding course of Black River to Lake Superior

• Point Iroquois Lighthouse (7 mi W on Lakeshore Dr), Attraction: 1855 lighthouse, climb 72 steps to top

Calumet [NW]

• Coppertown Mining Museum, Attraction: Mines, mining equipment displays, $

• Keweenaw National Historical Park (throughout the Keweenaw Peninsula), Attraction: Heritage of copper mining on the Keweenaw Peninsula

• Old Red Jacket Downtown Historic District, Attraction: Historic buildings

• Iron County Museum, Attraction: Museum of mining, lumbering, & everyday life in Iron County, $

• Copper Harbor Lighthouse, Attraction: 1866 lighthouse, museum
• Delaware Copper Mine Tour (12 mi S on Hwy41), Attraction: 45-min underground tour
• Fort Wilkins Historic Complex (1 mi E of Copper Harbor), Attraction: 1844 fort built to protect settlers, log officers quarters, $

• Fayette Historic State Park (17 mi S of Garden on M-183), Attraction: Well-preserved 1867-91 iron-smelting plant & town site w/over 20 original buildings, camping, $

• Quincy Mine Hoist (1 mi S on Hwy41), Attraction: Largest steam hoist in world, shafthouse, guided tour to 7th level of mine about 400-ft underground, $$

Hermansville [SW]

• IXL Historical Museum, Attraction: Original furnishings & equipment used by the largest hardwood flooring plant in U.S. in early 1900s, $

Iron Mountain [SW]

• Cornish Pumping Engine & Mining Museum, Attraction: Displays of mining equipment, one of largest steam engines, $

• Iron Mountain Iron Mine & Museum (9 mi E of Iron Mountain on Hwy2), Attraction: Tour 2600 ft of underground drifts & tunnels, mining equipment

• Menominee Range Historical Foundation Museum, Attraction: Local history from American Indians to present day, old general store, trapper's cabin, trading post, $

• Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park (15 mi NE Ironwood), Attraction: Scenery, waterfalls, camping

Isle Royale National Park [NW]

Wild & scenic park on 45-mi long island, accessible only by boat

• Edisen Fishery, Attraction: Fishing history including old fishing shacks, nets, buoy markers

• Moose Garden, Attraction: Hundreds of moose antlers

• Rock Harbor Lighthouse, Attraction: Light-keeper's home converted to museum of artifacts from copper mining and early inhabitants

• Alberta Village Museum & Sawmill (8 mi S of L'Anse on US41), Attraction: Village built by Henry Ford in 1936 as a model sawmill town
• Canyon Falls (8 mi S of L'Anse on US41), Attraction: Referred to as "Grand Canyon" of Upper Peninsula
• Hilltop Restaurant, Attraction: Giant cinnamon rolls

Mackinac Island [SE]

3 mi by 2 mi island accessible only by boat from St Ignace or Mackinaw City, transportation only via horse-drawn carriage or walking

• Carriage tour, Attraction: Narrated 105-minute tour to Island's scenic & historic points, $$

• Fort Mackinac, Attraction: Restored 1700s & 1800s British & American military outpost, $

• Kitch-iti-Kipi (The Big Spring) State Park, Attraction: 45-ft deep spring that flows 16,000 gallons per minute, $

• Marquette Maritime Museum, Attraction: Early days of shipping on the lakes

• Poor Boy Restaurant, Attraction: Huge cinnamon buns, hearty meals

• Menominee County Historical Museum, Attraction: History of the county from Indian settlements to WWII

See Pictured Rocks National Seashore

• Michigan Iron Industry Museum (3 mi E of Negaunee on US41E), Attraction: Site of the first iron forge in the Lake Superior region, 0$

• Crisp Point Lighthouse (37 Mi N of Newberry)
• Tahquamenon Logging Museum (1.5 mi N on SR123), Attraction: Cook shack, logging memorabilia, 1900s log cabin, $

• Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum, Attraction: Stories of shipwrecks & lives lost on the Great Lakes
• Tahquamenon Falls State Park (12 mi W of Paradise), Attraction: 200-ft wide, 50-ft high Upper Falls, 5-level Lower Falls, camping, $

Pictured Rocks National Seashore [SE]

73,000 acre park with breathtaking mineral-stained sandstone cliffs along Lake Superior shoreline (5 mi NE of Munising), Pictured Rocks cliffs rise to 200 ft above Lake Superior and offer a spectacular example of the erosive action of waves, accessible only by boat

• Old Victoria, Attraction: Restored late 1800s company town, 0$

Sault Ste Marie [SE]

• Museum Ship SS Valley Camp, Attraction: Tour 1917 Great Lakes ore ship, museum displays on main deck, freshwater aquarium, display on wreck of Edmund Fitzgerald, recovered lifeboat, $

• River of History Museum, Attraction: River valley's development is traced from Native Americans through French fur trade to modern industrial & environmental issues, $

• Soo Locks Boat Tours, Attraction: Tour among the freighters and through the locks, $$

• Soo Locks Park, Attraction: History of the Soo Locks system, view ships pass through locks from viewing platform

• Soo Locks Train Tours, Attraction: Tour the Canadian locks, cross into Canada on a train-like tram

• Tower of History, Attraction: Elevator to top of 21-story viewing platform, view Soo Locks, Canadian sites, more

• Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park (3 mi W of Silver City on SR107), Attraction: Camping, skiing, hiking, $

See Mackinac Island, ferries to island from St Ignace

• Museum of Ojibwa Culture, Attraction: Ojibwa Indian artifacts, Huron longhouse, $

• Mystery Spot, Attraction: Area where gravity seems to have gone haywire, experience optical contradictions & physical sensations that are hard to believe

Whitefish Point [NE]

• Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum, Attraction: Restored lighthouse keeper's house, bell from the Edmund Fitzgerald, pictures & video on area shipwrecks, boardwalk to Lake Superior, $

• Whitefish Point Light Station (SR123 & Whitefish Point Rd), Attraction: 1849 lighthouse is oldest working lighthouse on Lake Superior

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