Considering it for July but I have never been there. Any suggestions / tips?

 

different but boring--nothing but fishing camps and hunting lodges

 

Upper Peninsula is beautiful, and the people know how to party and tell stories. I married an Iron Mountain woman. Another thread was already started on UP today:

https://www.hdforums.com/forum/road-...-mid-june.html

 

drove across it one time moving from ME to ND (AF move and did it for fun). Went up to the north through Marquette. It is on my list of places to ride the bike. I thought it was cool. The bridge made me a little nervous as I was in a Bronco with a canoe on top. No biggie when we were across and I would ride a bike across it now that I have seen it.

 

Thanks. I just got on here tonight and had not seen the other thread.

 

The Keeeenau peninsula is a good place to go. Copper Harbor at the Northern tip has an old fort that's sort of interesting. Also the very start of US 41. Outs a step back in time.

 

Check out rt. 57 in the north..awesome twisties and a newish road through the park

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The ride to Copper Harbor is great.

 

The best ride starts at the Macinaw bridge and heads east along the shoreline to Drummond Island. There's not much to see between the tourist shopping areas (fudge, t-shirts, & junk) in St. Ignace & Macinaw, until you get up to Sault Ste. Marie, but the shoreline is absolutely beautiful all the way up. Macinaw Island is a nice place to take your wife/girlfriend, but is boring after more than a few hours.

The locks in Sault Ste. Marie are interesting, and you can ride over the international bridge into Canada (take a passport). The casinos are all over. There's another nice drive along Lake Michigan, west to the lighthouse and falls (state park). But after that, all you'll see is a 2-lane blacktop through swampy lands, covered in birch & pine trees. But that's 80% of Michigan.

I worked all over the U.P., and the most beautiful areas are the ones along the St. Mary's river, and you can only see it by boat. Summers up there only last 2 months or so, and are incredible. Winters seem to last 6 months or more, and are a bit brutal. The locals up there survive on tourism, based on casinos, snowmobile riding, & Macinaw Island

 

Go to Pictured Rocks, not boring at all...