How People Live in Michigan's Upper Peninsula | Life Above the Bridge | 4K Travel

How do people live in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, the land above the Mackinac Bridge? A calm 4K documentary about everyday life in the U.P., from the Soo Locks and Lake Superior fishing towns to iron and copper country and winters with close to two hundred inches of snow. Every number in this film was checked against its source, and the sources are listed below. You'll see the Mackinac Bridge and the bridge staff who take the wheel for nervous drivers, thousand-foot freighters squeezing into the Poe Lock at the Soo, the 1836 treaty behind fishing rights on the Great Lakes, and the whitefish families of Munising and Hancock. We stop at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore and the Michigan Ice Fest, the Tilden iron mine and Marquette's Upper Harbor ore dock, and Negaunee's fenced-off Old Town. Then come the Keweenaw County snow gauge, school snow days and Michigan Tech's Winter Carnival, snowmobile trails across the Portage Lake Lift Bridge, the Quincy Mine, the 1913 copper strike and Italian Hall, Cornish pasties, Finnish Hancock, remote workers moving north, and how the word Yooper made it into the dictionary. If you'd like more places like this one, subscribe. Tell us in the comments where you're watching from and what time it is there. We read every comment. Chapters 0:00 Intro 2:14 Five Miles Across the Straits 6:14 The Lock That Fits 9:39 Whitefish and the Treaty 13:32 A Million Visits, Then Silence 16:20 The Dock Built Too Narrow 19:51 Twice the Snow, Seven Miles Inland 23:56 Roads Made of Snow 27:52 A Mile Down for Copper 31:44 Yoopers, Old and New 35:41 Finale Sources Named in the film: Mackinac Bridge Authority, Frequently Asked Questions: www.mackinacbridge.org/about-the-bridge/frequently-asked-questions/ National Park Service, Visitor Use Statistics (IRMA), Monthly recreation visits, Pictured Rocks NL (PIRO), 2014-2025: irmaservices.nps.gov/v3/rest/stats/visitation?unitCodes=PIRO&startMonth=1&startYear=2014&endMonth=12&endYear=2025&format=json NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, U.S. Climate Normals 1991-2020, annual snowfall normal for stations USW00094850 and USW00014838: www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/services/data/v1?dataset=normals-annualseasonal-1991-2020&stations=USW00094850,USW00014838&format=json&dataTypes=ANN-SNOW-NORMAL The full list of sources, chapter by chapter, is in the comments below. Photos "Freighter Burns Harbor, entering the Poe Lock, Soo Locks (24273316458)" by Deb Nystrom from Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, CC BY 2.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), via Wikimedia Commons, cropped "Sault Sainte Marie canal celebration, the naval parade" by Detroit Publishing Co., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped "Ratified Indian Treaty 201- Ottawa and Chippewa - Washington, DC, March 28, 1836 - DPLA - 18e44dd22c5f10b3888a0232bf43890d (page 8)" by U.S. Government. 3/4/1789, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped "Calumet and Hecla stamp mills, Lake Linden, Mich." by Detroit Publishing Co., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped "Shaft No. 2, Quincy Copper Mine, Hancock, Mich." by Detroit Publishing Co, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped "Calumet and Hecla smelters, Lake Linden, Mich." by Detroit Publishing Co., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped "Soldiers in Michigan's Copper Country during 1913 Miners Strike at Calumet. RPPC." by Wystan from Ann Arbor, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped "Strike - Calumet, Mich. LCCN2014694619" by Bain News Service, publisher, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped Footage: Envato Elements (licensed), Pixabay. Music and sounds: Envato Elements (licensed), "Falling Snow" by Aakash Gandhi, YouTube Audio Library, "Campfire Song" by Chris Haugen, YouTube Audio Library. #TravelDocumentary #UpperPeninsula #Michigan #LakeSuperior