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Summary: All travel guides should be written like this.
Review: Frommer's, Lonely Planet, Fodor's and Baedeker's take note:
This is one excellent travel guide! More than hotels, motels, watering holes and restaurants, "Hunts' Guide to Michigan's Upper Peninsula" goes where other guides don't: into the hidden crevices of a community to ferret out little-known facts.The Hunts help you find local color as well as food and lodging. This book is for the traveler who is tired of the usual- or for anyone who goes to the U.P. for day trips and getaway weekends.. This is not a standard guidebook. It's quirky and interesting - and reads like a good magazine feature story. How about we send the Hunts to San Francisco or New Orleans or Savannah - to get the real scoop on those wonderful destinations?
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Summary: All travel guides should be written like this.
Review: Frommer's, Lonely Planet, Fodor's and Baedeker's take note:
This is one excellent travel guide! More than hotels, motels, watering holes and restaurants, "Hunts' Guide to Michigan's Upper Peninsula" goes where other guides don't: into the hidden crevices of a community to ferret out little-known facts.The Hunts help you find local color as well as food and lodging. This book is for the traveler who is tired of the usual- or for anyone who goes to the U.P. for day trips and getaway weekends.. This is not a standard guidebook. It's quirky and interesting - and reads like a good magazine feature story. How about we send the Hunts to San Francisco or New Orleans or Savannah - to get the real scoop on those wonderful destinations?
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Summary: Why this remote place is ideal for relaxed vacations.
Review: Here are four great things about the U.P. as a vacation destination - especially the old mining areas of the western U.P., starting at Escanaba and Marquette. We have written our guidebook to put visitors in touch with these things. 1) The U. P. is BEAUTIFUL and mostly UNDEVELOPED - a place of rocks, trees (it's in the North Woods, a distinctive northern ecosystem), many lakes and trout streams, and simple pleasures like hiking to waterfalls; picking berries; seeing the stars and, sometimes, the Northern Lights; fishing and birding; visiting lighthouses and watching ships; looking for tracks of bears, wolves, and moose; walking the beaches of Lake Superior and Michigan, and taking home limsetone fossils, colorful granites and sandstones, and volcanic rock with tiny gemstone bubbles. The U.P. is not for shoppers or the fashion-forward. Its elemental simplicity is a tonic for jaded kids. 2) IT'S INEXPENSIVE. Locals are notoriously thrifty, and restaurants in the old mining areas have to be priced for locals. Lodgings, though seldom new, are almost always clean and friendly. 3) VISITORS DON'T NECESSARILY HAVE TO PLAN AHEAD, even in July and August, if they stay at highway motels or public campgrounds without electricity. (Early September is the best time of all.) 4) Though known for fishing, hunting, canoeing, hiking, and such, THE U.P. ISN'T ONLY ABOUT THE OUTDOORS. Two surprises to first-time visitors are the beautiful and impressive historic architecture of old public buildings and churches from logging and mining booms of the 1880s and 1890s, and the rich ethnic heritage still much in evidence in food and occasionally in music. Finns, Italians, French-Canadians, Croats, Cornish, Swedes, Slovenians, Norwegians, Germans, and others immigrated to this onetime economic hot spot. Take time to talk to people - the Scandianvian-influenced North Country accent of the Upper Midwest (captured in the movie "Fargo") is something to remember. Canadianisms are an extra addition to Yooper Talk. As outsiders from downstate, we the authors were a little worried about whether we would pass muster with locals, no-nonsense folks who are put off by pretense. So we were thrilled to get a letter from Tauno Kilpela, a retired Finnish-American metallurgist from Atlantic Mine, thanking us for "taking a long look, and an honest and friendly look, at God's Country."
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Summary: Very helpful, best source on U.P.
Review: I am planning a tour of the U.P. later this year and have had the chance to comb all the bookstores here in Michigan. This has by far been the best book I have found on the U.P. It doesn't just cover Mackinaw but truly gets into the unique personality of the entire U.P. Highly recommended for those planning a trip here.
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Summary: An unusual guide to an unusual destination!
Review: I've just returned from a vacation to the U.P. and I can't imagine having taken the trip without this wonderful guide. Almost every town and village in the U.P. is covered with detailed, honest, useful information. This is literally the only guide you'll need.
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Summary: One of best travel guides I've ever used
Review: The Hunts guide really enhanced my enjoyment of a two-week bike trip through the area. It helped me find local eateries, roadside attractions, and clean, independent, motels. Author was right on with every one of recommendations; turned me on to little roadside gems. I recommend this book for anyone who is into roadside culture. I wish there was a Hunt's guide for everywhere that I bicycle. Thank you, thank you.
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Summary: Excellent Resource!
Review: This book is a "must-have" for anyone who wants to get the most out of any trip to the Upper Peninsula. After dozens of visits to the U.P., I had thought I'd pretty much covered it all... until I picked up this book. The Hunt's have apparently combed through every nook and cranny of the U.P. and present everything a visitor would need to know! Much reccommended!
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Summary: Excellent Resource!
Review: This book is a "must-have" for anyone who wants to get the most out of any trip to the Upper Peninsula. After dozens of visits to the U.P., I had thought I'd pretty much covered it all... until I picked up this book. The Hunt's have apparently combed through every nook and cranny of the U.P. and present everything a visitor would need to know! Much reccommended!
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Summary: A superb collection of info on places and events in the UP
Review: This guide is a comprehensive collection of very accurate information that even yoopers will find useful and interesting. Lodging, restaurants, natural wonders, sights, cities and towns, camping, outdoor adventures are all discussed with respectful attention to history. Nicely organized by location.
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Summary: Outstanding Handbook for UP travels
Review: This is an outstanding reference for exploring the UP. It is fun to read, it is accurate, and it has an extremely diverse mix of things to do from waterfalls, old mines, neat restaurants including descriptions of the things on the menu, ghost towns, scienc sites, historic sites, to so much more. It is absolutely esstential to fully appreciate all the wonderfull things the UP has to offer. Without this guide, I guarantee you will not get the most out of your UP experience.
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