I've just noticed when I was looking at maps for something else, that Michigan appears to be two separate land masses. NE of Wisconsin and north of Indiana/Ohio. Why is that? Anyone know why the upper part isn't part of Wisconsin?
Michigan includes the smaller Upper Peninsula (UP) and the larger Lower Peninsula with the Capital, Lansing. Why the UP isn’t part of Wisconsin goes back to a dispute and decision when Michigan was created, earlier than Wisconsin. Locals call the folks from the UP Yoopers….our daughter was born in Iron Mountain so she is a yooper! It’s a loooong drive from the Westen UP to Lansing! The UP is largely forested and has a number of historical mining areas for iron and copper…and a low population.
Lots of lake cabins on Lake Gogebic, around Watersmeet and Iron River. The UP does get serious winter tho….”ten months winter and two months poor sledding” is only a slight exaggeration!
Oh that's a shame. I've always had a hankering after the idea of staying in a woodland cabin, by a lake, relatively isolated from the world and spending a week there living nude. Sounds as though it's too cold.
It just depends on the season and location. The closer you are to one of the Great Lakes, the water cools the air in the summer. During the winter months, the opposite occurs, cooler air is warmed by the water. These are called “Lake Effect Weather Patterns”. I live less than a mile from Lake Michigan. Right now it’s probably 5-7 degrees cooler than it is 10 miles inland. The downside is the lake effect thunderstorms we get in the summers, and lake affect snowfall in the winters. As for Michigans Upper Peninsula, same lake effect patterns, but when Arctic air creeps down from Canada, it get very cold.
Thank you for that. I'm thinking of somewhere where it's > 25C/ 75F, isolated from other humans or those who might object to nudity, wooded as I described and with a lake in its proximity
