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Northern Assets: Home Sweet Sustainable Home

Northern Assets: Home Sweet Sustainable Home

Healthier, more environmentally conscious homes are being built all around the Grand Traverse Region Full article...Real Estate Resources Traverse Traverse City )

A Traverse Forest Feast

A Traverse Forest Feast

Put on your walking shoes, grab a basket and follow us to the forests surrounding Traverse City for Foraging 101. Full article...Food & Wine Features Outdoors Features Features Traverse City )

Discover Marvelous Wild Mint in Northern Michigan

Discover Marvelous Wild Mint in Northern Michigan

On a fine spring day, find a dappled corner of the Michigan woods. Breathe deep. Ah, wild mint! Find out how it got there—and what to do with it. Full article...Food & Wine Features )

Beaver Island’s King

Beaver Island’s King

In 1850 Mormon renegade James Strang was crowned king of his Beaver Island colony. His reign lasted just six years, but tales of his five wives, his bullying of followers and his eventual assassination by an angry husband have kept his name alive in the lore of his adopted Lake Michigan realm. Full article...History History )

Iron Mountain Italian

Iron Mountain Italian

Ravioli with red sauce, porketta at the tavern, lavish tomato gardens. With a craving for flavors of the Old Country, this U.P. border town can’t help but offer up authentic. Full article...Food & Wine Features Features Features Upper Peninsula )

Traverse Favorites: Butterscotch Pie with Fresh Cream

Traverse Favorites: Butterscotch Pie with Fresh Cream

Whip up a creamy lid to a rich butterscotch pie. Full article...Recipes Traverse Magazine Food & Wine Traverse Traverse City )

Imprinted by the Northwoods

Imprinted by the Northwoods

I return to my childhood cabin in the Upper Peninsula each year, like salmon to the streams of their beginnings. Full article...Essays Essays Upper Peninsula )

Wild About a Wild River

Wild About a Wild River

The adventure of finding our Betsie River cottage. Full article...Essays )

So a Girl Walks into a Bar: Traverse City Night Life

So a Girl Walks into a Bar: Traverse City Night Life

Small town, Saturday night, Up North. With snow swirling outside and cabin fever raging inside, intrepid reporter Lynda Twardowski seeks relief and a cultural pulse in the gathering spots of downtown Traverse City. Full article...Features Features Traverse City )

Staff Picks: Traverse City and Petoskey Area Pizza

Staff Picks: Traverse City and Petoskey Area Pizza

Traverse Magazine staff shares their favorite pizzas from Traverse City, Petoskey, Glen Arbor and more. Full article...Features Traverse Traverse City )

Chillin’ and Grillin’: Winter BBQ in Northern Michigan

Chillin’ and Grillin’: Winter BBQ in Northern Michigan

Icy beers, good friends, meat sizzling over smoking-hot coals. All that goodness isn’t just for summer. Grab your shovel and dig out the Weber. The path to a true Northern Michigan meal is lined with snow. Full article...Features Features )

Beef Stew with Traverse City Stout

Beef Stew with Traverse City Stout

A rich stew with Traverse City—made stout is perfect for St. Paddy's day dinner. Full article...Recipes Food & Wine Traverse Traverse City )

Saving Michigan’s Coaster Brook Trout

Saving Michigan’s Coaster Brook Trout

The only two places the coaster brook breeds in the United States is two locations in the Lake Superior watershed, specifically, in a small tributary near Big Bay called the Salmon Trout River, and about 120 miles northwest of there in streams and on shoals of Isle Royale. Those estimated 400 adults are all the breeders our nation has. Some people want to change that before it's too late. Full article...Features Outdoors Features Features )

The Life of Ludington's Cartier Mansion

The Life of Ludington's Cartier Mansion

Ludington’s Cartier Mansion Bed and Breakfast is an opulent legacy of the North’s timber-rich history, but the tale of the timber magnate who built it is richer still. Full article...History Vacation Features Features Ludington )

Essay: At Home on the Hill

Essay: At Home on the Hill

Recalling a childhood in the hill country of Charlevoix County. Full article...Essays )

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