I Investigated The Most Northern Little Town in America

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  • Опубликовано: 26 мар 2024
  • You've never seen a place like this before!
    In this video, I explored the far reaches of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. I talked to the people, and got to the bottom of the way of life up here.
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  • @NickJohnson
    @NickJohnson  Месяц назад +42

    Here's my entire Great Lakes Playlist: ruclips.net/p/PLq-_cmf3H6ypYq3snF04oSnlx1Nz_paCO

    • @alexdavidson7785
      @alexdavidson7785 Месяц назад +3

      "IM COLD"
      ...but i'm doing this for youtube 😅

    • @hollynonya6991
      @hollynonya6991 Месяц назад +5

      Love it!
      Hope you listened to Gordon Lightfoots " wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" as you stood at the foot of lake superior 😊

    • @sandy-quimsrus
      @sandy-quimsrus Месяц назад +1

      You're letting your freak flag fly and I'm so here for it. Liking it more and more ❤❤❤

    • @mikes3827
      @mikes3827 Месяц назад +3

      LOL Nick, you've grown on me a lot from when I first watched one of your videos. Not afraid to drop the occasional expletive, but for the most part your vocabulary is pretty clean, and you drop a lot of interesting tidbits (e.g. local history, humor, etc.) to make it enjoyable to watch your videos. Anyway, Marquette reminds me of some Maine coastal towns, where crime is almost nil, VERY close-nit townsfolk. And seeing that I spent my IDYLLIC formative years in small town Maine (Lakes Region), watching this brings back similar (and very good!) memories. Keep doing your thing, putting out more great videos.

    • @sandy-quimsrus
      @sandy-quimsrus Месяц назад +2

      @KeeKaiShee love your humour from Australia where I just had 47 days without rain and it hit 46 degrees Celsius or 115 Fahrenheit just last week. I'm cooking a lamb roast in air conditioning!

  • @patrickchilds5486
    @patrickchilds5486 Месяц назад +120

    I’m in Florida 30 years but miss my home state of Michigan often. UP is beautiful…

    • @AMPProf
      @AMPProf Месяц назад +4

      YAH BOY FROZEN TO THE GROUND

    • @GEN_X_
      @GEN_X_ Месяц назад +7

      Only in the Summer. LMAO

    • @ericmoraski9102
      @ericmoraski9102 Месяц назад +5

      Looks great,and I can tell you really had a blast!! I have a couple of benders left in me!!it's sunny again in Tampa Bay,bummer

    • @charley95sheridan44
      @charley95sheridan44 Месяц назад +28

      I'll take the Florida gov. over Michigans any day!

    • @tomcollins5112
      @tomcollins5112 Месяц назад +12

      Sssssh! You're supposed to keep that quiet! We don't want too many city folk moving up here!

  • @kristenstudebaker814
    @kristenstudebaker814 Месяц назад +115

    Finnish country! My grandmother was born in Helskinki in 1910, moved to the UP in 1912, and soon after her father was killed in the Victoria copper mine near Ontanogan. Fortunately her mother had the support of the Finnish community up there. The terrain is very much like Finland, which I was able to visit twice and meet her cousins there. Love that part of Michigan!

    • @scrotieballs
      @scrotieballs Месяц назад +17

      My Finnish ancestors moved from Finland to Rock, MI in the late 1800's. They liked it here for the same exact reasons as yours. My husband's Polish family is from Ontonagon. Meanwhile, we're just a couple of old trolls. Lol. Small world.

    • @alansewell7810
      @alansewell7810 Месяц назад +12

      A person who moved from the Lower Peninsula to Ishpeming told me how nice the people up there were. He said when he and his wife bought a house up there, the neighbors asked how they liked it. "It's fine," said the wife, "except for the color [it was an ugly shade of light yellow]." The neighbors asked, "What color would you prefer?" The wife told them what color she liked. They went back down to Lower Michigan to pick up their furniture. When the got back, the neighbors had painted the house exactly the way the wife wanted, buying the paint at their expense. He said that even though frigid in climate, the hearts of the people were warm.

    • @springrain9438
      @springrain9438 Месяц назад +7

      ​@@alansewell7810this whole comment thread is wonderful to read! How cool!

    • @chicagotom1643
      @chicagotom1643 Месяц назад +5

      Yeah, my grandpa moved to Munising to do that. Then went to South Bend, West Virssippi (INDIANA) to work at Studebaker

    • @johnsambo9379
      @johnsambo9379 Месяц назад

      Michigan is a liberal dung hole now.

  • @Miami543210
    @Miami543210 Месяц назад +16

    To me, a guy living in Miami, Florida, that looks like 100% pure hell. Oh, my God, just watching this video made me turn the AC off of the car and roll down the windows. While I wait for my wife. I cannot imagine living up there. And that is probably why it is so damn crowded down here South Florida, and very isolated up there. But I do love your videos.

    • @jeffcase11
      @jeffcase11 Месяц назад

      All good sir, Miami looks like pure hell to us too. We have good people up this way, not too many pretentious, materialistic snobs like you do down there.

    • @michigan57
      @michigan57 12 дней назад +3

      I think the isolation is a big factor for folks living up there. It's not for everybody.

  • @katiez688
    @katiez688 Месяц назад +104

    You should go back in the summer. The Upper Peninsula is beautiful in the summer!

    • @leroyberzerk4424
      @leroyberzerk4424 Месяц назад +8

      Wish I could move up there, my 1st visit to Marquette taking my daughter to NMU fall semester of 2013 late August the temp reached 100 degrees made swimming in the lake lil more bearable.
      Then few years ago worked a job in Jackson MI delivering cannabis thru-out MI. My favorite trip of course was to "The Firestation" dispensary, Stosh mgr. kool guy, then Lume opened up shop later.
      I remember once driving back to the bridge from Mrqt late/early spring 45 degrees still lots of snow on the ground and watching snowmobilers along the sides of the road. envy

    • @danielowen5889
      @danielowen5889 Месяц назад

      Bugs bugs and bugs... oh and tourist..hahah it is great

    • @valhalla9688
      @valhalla9688 Месяц назад +2

      It’s a really fun place to enjoy the outdoors. Make sure to pack some mosquito spray 😅

    • @wendytipon6020
      @wendytipon6020 Месяц назад +3

      Cant find the best rocks in the winter!! 😂

    • @leroyberzerk4424
      @leroyberzerk4424 Месяц назад +3

      @@wendytipon6020 This winter probly could of, ‘the winter that wasn’t’

  • @TheRedDevil_NC
    @TheRedDevil_NC Месяц назад +62

    These are the kinds of places many Americans will be retreating to in the next 50 years to get away from the places we and our parents grew up or lived in and can no longer tolerate. Another great one. Really appreciate your channel.

    • @JamieSmith-fz2mz
      @JamieSmith-fz2mz Месяц назад +9

      No no, send them to Milwaukee or Duluth. Nothing to see here. Sorry you've been mislead. Marquette is the perfect size right now.

    • @matthewjohnson1211
      @matthewjohnson1211 Месяц назад +7

      If the climate of Marquette was the same as where I live (Appleton wi) -I’d retire there in a heartbeat! Problem is -so would everyone else and it would be ruined.

    • @paulqruel9290
      @paulqruel9290 Месяц назад +1

      Family in Marquette.

    • @alexandercage2500
      @alexandercage2500 Месяц назад

      Overpopulation. A real thing that noone seems to recognize yet. Soon that will be self evident to all.

    • @katjones2781
      @katjones2781 Месяц назад

      Yeah maybe a southern people can move north and see how you Northerners like it when we ruin everything for you as you ruined everything for us here in Florida

  • @mqtsprinter93
    @mqtsprinter93 Месяц назад +159

    Never thought I’d see my hometown on here - I miss it quite a bit. Love seeing the UP get some love, it is a great place

    • @Aaron-us2ux
      @Aaron-us2ux Месяц назад +11

      💃🏻❤ Over there are all the girls as pretty as you?😏😂😆😎✌️

    • @valhalla9688
      @valhalla9688 Месяц назад

      @@Aaron-us2uxstop being a pervert. You dirty ole hound dog

    • @davidbrayshaw3529
      @davidbrayshaw3529 Месяц назад +2

      I'm sure you miss it! You would have been the first kid in the world that Santa Claus visited on his annual global tour! In all seriousness, though, it's a pretty looking city.

    • @cherylseidel6902
      @cherylseidel6902 Месяц назад +3

      From there too..well actually gwinn

    • @cherylseidel6902
      @cherylseidel6902 Месяц назад +1

      Favorite place is presque isle

  • @peggyowen3386
    @peggyowen3386 Месяц назад +56

    I’m a Native Texan and I’m in my late sixties. I hate the hot weather in Texas and would love to move up north but my kids and grandkids are here so I’m not going anywhere!! Love your videos Nick!!

    • @hlwanmoe1981
      @hlwanmoe1981 Месяц назад +8

      Don’t come. You’ll regret.

    • @hughjhardon8080
      @hughjhardon8080 Месяц назад +5

      That’s what plane tickets are for. Just go. Try it out.

    • @bletchdroshek5984
      @bletchdroshek5984 Месяц назад +5

      Same here, I would always tell my Michigan coworker transplants that I would love to live in Michigan for a couple of years and get away from Texas for awhile. They all tell me that the winters are no joke but the springs and summers are great. I love to hear the ones with stories about sailing the great lakes.

    • @williamstamper442
      @williamstamper442 Месяц назад +7

      Back in 1980 Michigan had a huge exodus of young men who left to Texas for work and never came back.

    • @bletchdroshek5984
      @bletchdroshek5984 Месяц назад +6

      @@williamstamper442 Yup, I'm sure I worked with some of them. Some I liked and some were just crappy. The crappy came from Detroit

  • @leanneadams2549
    @leanneadams2549 Месяц назад +37

    I grew up in the UP. Me and my brother used to jump off our roof as my dad shoved the snow off. It was no joke in the 70’s and 80’s. Best years of my life !!!

  • @PaulWolfert
    @PaulWolfert Месяц назад +52

    I think everyone forgets that we basically have two states here in Michigan and the UP is WAY different. The home prices throw off our averages a ton! 😅

    • @BobSmith-kk7lx
      @BobSmith-kk7lx Месяц назад +4

      Absolutely. The rest of michigan does not include the UP and many things suffer because of it

    • @priscillaross-fox9407
      @priscillaross-fox9407 Месяц назад

      I think the UP should be it's own state! Just my opinion though. @@BobSmith-kk7lx

    • @paulqruel9290
      @paulqruel9290 15 дней назад

      Lot of people talked to don't know we have a bridge 5 miles long, when telling them they say no ah.

  • @tnit7554
    @tnit7554 Месяц назад +27

    Michigan totally underrated.😊

    • @12NFLtitles
      @12NFLtitles 28 дней назад +4

      Minus the crazy governor.

    • @8corymix8
      @8corymix8 19 дней назад

      It's a beautiful place to live

    • @kimbrown2244
      @kimbrown2244 4 дня назад

      ​@12NFLtitles she's the best!!!

  • @Herbieserve
    @Herbieserve Месяц назад +13

    Had the pleasure to live in Marquette for 7 years. It truly is a magnificent city. Best kept secret of the Midwest.

  • @TedBatkie
    @TedBatkie Месяц назад +10

    Hey Nick. Awesome videos of northern mi and UP. This reminds me of old days in lower Michigan. Cold as hell and loved it . Walked around beer faced . The cold makes you feel alive. Hard to explain.

    • @dcl97
      @dcl97 Месяц назад +1

      Not that cold here anymore. Maybe a week here or there into the teens, but mostly above freezing during the winter. We have to drive to the UP (this year we had to go all the way to whitefish) if we want to cross country ski or go snow shoeing. Occasionally we'll get a snowstorm and get a few days of skiing before it melts. Nothing like it was 20 years ago.

  • @arcticfirealaska810
    @arcticfirealaska810 Месяц назад +18

    The most northern little town in America is actually Utqiagvik, Alaska, formally known as Barrow. Alaska is in the United States.

    • @olympianproduct
      @olympianproduct Месяц назад +6

      Exactly. Marquette isn’t even the northernmost small town in Michigan, that would be Copper Harbor, or if that’s too small for you, there’s Houghton/Hancock on the Keewenaw Peninsula

    • @kylekarwowski2642
      @kylekarwowski2642 Месяц назад +3

      Right on. There are 30-40 towns in Michigan north of this. And hundreds if you add up all the ones in Minnesota, N Dakota, and Maine.

  • @thereckoning5488
    @thereckoning5488 Месяц назад +26

    Now that is the Michigan I know. Snowing like hell

  • @NorthwoodsWolf
    @NorthwoodsWolf Месяц назад +19

    Proud Yooper here (grew up about 60 miles south of Marquette). Beautiful country, and hopefully it remains unspoiled.

    • @paulqruel9290
      @paulqruel9290 15 дней назад

      Yes agree leave this little Gem unspoiled.

  • @ernestconnell8087
    @ernestconnell8087 Месяц назад +6

    Dry fluffy snow, that’s cold 🥶

  • @doubleh7640
    @doubleh7640 Месяц назад +45

    This is the happiest I have seen you in any of your videos! Waiting for your Wisconsin stop. Up here is living the best life!

    • @life5161
      @life5161 Месяц назад +1

      Let all the "new comers" know how great it is so they can head there. 😂

    • @doubleh7640
      @doubleh7640 Месяц назад +3

      It's already infested. Air bnb and what not. Just driving prices up and taking all the homes. Its sad. Nowhere for locals to live, and a year like this is devastating to economy there.

    • @paulsmith3994
      @paulsmith3994 Месяц назад

      cos he be bar hopping! ha ha

    • @up-uw4op
      @up-uw4op Месяц назад +2

      He better be strapped before going to Wisconsin

    • @laraoneal7284
      @laraoneal7284 Месяц назад

      That’s bc Nick is LIT.

  • @yarsivad000.5
    @yarsivad000.5 Месяц назад +46

    28:47 Henry Ford opened a factory in Kingsford, MI near the WI border and it's sister city Iron Mountain, MI. Opened in 1920's and closed in the 50's. It's also where Kingsford Charcol started as Ford Charcoal. It produded Woody station wagon bodies and it converted to glider production for WWII. It employed 4500 people. It ran 24/7-3 shifts of 1500 each shift.

    • @karlaruter3221
      @karlaruter3221 Месяц назад +4

      I applaud you 🎉

    • @thereckoning5488
      @thereckoning5488 Месяц назад +4

      I love Iron Mountain

    • @gorfpatrol2073
      @gorfpatrol2073 Месяц назад +2

      Alberta, MI too

    • @badguy5554
      @badguy5554 Месяц назад +3

      That Glider museum is a MUST if you visit Iron Mountain.

    • @NickJohnson
      @NickJohnson  Месяц назад +10

      There will be some of that history in another video

  • @DeeeQ12
    @DeeeQ12 Месяц назад +5

    I'm a Michigander and have heard of Marquette but I've never been up there. Thanks for this video

  • @dannydeschilder9943
    @dannydeschilder9943 Месяц назад +71

    You have also fans in Europe! Much love from Holland, the Flower and Cheese Nation!

    • @NewHaven203
      @NewHaven203 Месяц назад +1

      🇳🇱

    • @dannydeschilder9943
      @dannydeschilder9943 Месяц назад

      @@NewHaven203 NederLand?

    • @Sues007
      @Sues007 Месяц назад +1

      Thank you Holland - God be with you!

    • @dannydeschilder9943
      @dannydeschilder9943 Месяц назад

      viva Holanda. @@Sues007

    • @SunRabbit
      @SunRabbit Месяц назад +2

      Interesting that I've visited both Michigan and Holland for work! Loved both! I stayed in Zaandam, NL. Love from Czech Republic. 👋

  • @ariesempresstarotandguidance
    @ariesempresstarotandguidance Месяц назад +49

    We live in Ironwood, and it's been pretty wicked weather for the past few days here also. I just got back inside from shoveling ice and snow out of the driveway, pretty invigorating, I just wish we had this weather back in January where it belongs... I am ready for spring :-) LOVE THE UP!!! We came here from Florida, lived in Reno NV for ten years, and now we are brand new Yoopers and learning the ways of the north. We were able to find a home we could afford and we moved here for the small town vibe and we really enjoy the people who live here, everyone is nice, polite, and ready to help out if needed.

    • @leahvalta5991
      @leahvalta5991 Месяц назад +7

      I was born there. I remember sledding out my second story window into the neighbor's driveway. People are very polite up there. Just be careful. Some of the churches up there are actually 'churches'. 😬

    • @giacobbeperales5926
      @giacobbeperales5926 Месяц назад +4

      I live north of Chicago near Wisconsin. We don't get much spring weather around here especially where your at. You'll get used to it

    • @janefromtennessee
      @janefromtennessee Месяц назад +1

      That’s great

    • @Jakegetsscrewedagain
      @Jakegetsscrewedagain Месяц назад +1

      I drive there from Minnesota a lot 🤫 🤫 💨

    • @skinnylegendz6940
      @skinnylegendz6940 Месяц назад +2

      Hello fellow Ironwoodies. What a strange winter huh? January was nicer than March haha, Mother Naitch always so unpredictable here 💎💚💎💚

  • @jimh6254
    @jimh6254 Месяц назад +18

    I grew up just outside of Marquette in the 1980s. Unfortunately, I haven't been back since. Those winters are no joke. Remember the lake effect snow dumping daily, and one year starting the fireplace on the 4th of July!

  • @kennedyland1
    @kennedyland1 Месяц назад +24

    I went to NMU from 1967 - 1972. Beyond the huge snowbanks on the streets, the long winters, and the sense of being on an island in a sea of trees, Marquette has a warm spot in my heart. Thanks for this video.

  • @jabbarmuhammad
    @jabbarmuhammad Месяц назад +8

    I would love to live in a place like this nice and cold I love the cold weather

  • @laurafoote214
    @laurafoote214 Месяц назад +19

    we went to the UP in August of 2022,St. Ignace, soooo beautiful, we took the pictured rocks tour in Munising, i love Michigan now and would love to go back again. The Pasties are great!

  • @williamrandall6472
    @williamrandall6472 Месяц назад +30

    Nick,I must say, this has to be 1 of your best videos,we even got to see your manager roll the sled over,"Perfect "

  • @rayprevailer8454
    @rayprevailer8454 Месяц назад +16

    I like Labatt, but I like Grain Belt more. Fantastic video Nick! The ice fishing part brought me back to my childhood in Minnesota. The "we don't lock our homes, cars...crime???" was precious. That's the way it was when I grew up. That place is like a preserved living time capsule. I will be moving to Wisconsin. There are rural places like that there. Places where common sense and morals still prevail.

    • @charlesrocks
      @charlesrocks Месяц назад +3

      Good luck with that bro. 80 million migrants now tread this land. We’ve been replaced

    • @up-uw4op
      @up-uw4op Месяц назад

      I had my house broken into in Wisconsin and the UP and my doors were locked. I now sleep with a gun and keep doors locked at all times. Morals are not any better in either place. Please be very careful in Wisconsin. I was assaulted by a tweaker and police did nothing. I was robbed many many times there. Wisconsin is crawling with tweakers in every small town.

  • @johannachalk6645
    @johannachalk6645 Месяц назад +20

    I love Michigan, especially the UP! My husband and I would usually vacation in Florida (we live in Kentucky), but 3 years ago we visited Michigan. Now it’s our go to vacation destination.
    I hope you visited Copper Harbor, Michigan in the Keweenaw Peninsula - it’s beautiful.

    • @lavapix
      @lavapix Месяц назад +4

      It's funny because I always tell people here in Hawaii that lots of people vacation in MI and they are surprised. Too many think all of MI is like Detroit.

  • @noodlesmama9096
    @noodlesmama9096 Месяц назад +31

    Native Californian but spent the second half of my childhood further north..Calumet on the Keeweenaw peninsula about 100 miles NW of Marquette. Talk about snow. Yikes! Btw it is Northern Michigan University or NMU not Univ of Northern MI. Thanks for going so far north.

  • @chrisblomquist6029
    @chrisblomquist6029 Месяц назад +2

    Good one,Nick!! You cracked me up in the back of the truck😂. I’m in Wisconsin with mild winters and can’t stand it anymore- can’t imagine how much they get!

    • @NickJohnson
      @NickJohnson  Месяц назад +3

      I like Wisconsin a lot Chris

  • @maint1616
    @maint1616 Месяц назад +2

    Nick I have watched a lot of your videos, some real sad locations, some very interesting places, some dangerous spots, but you had me laughing my ass off in this video. Enjoyed every minute of it. You sure can tell a story" Mister"! I live in Mi by the way.

  • @karenk1212
    @karenk1212 Месяц назад +10

    Good photography.

    • @NickJohnson
      @NickJohnson  Месяц назад +1

      I got cold fingers just for you guys 🥶

  • @NocturN4
    @NocturN4 Месяц назад +40

    You have fans in Poland too! You drink almost as much as we do.

    • @jax993
      @jax993 Месяц назад +8

      And as much as Australians 🇦🇺🤣

    • @NickJohnson
      @NickJohnson  Месяц назад +7

      ❤️ 🇵🇱 🇦🇺

    • @NewHaven203
      @NewHaven203 Месяц назад +5

      @NocturN4 I love the polish, we have a large Polish community in New Britain, Connecticut, there’s even a neighborhood called “Little Poland”

    • @BamBamBigelow..
      @BamBamBigelow.. Месяц назад

      Cleveland loves their pierogies

  • @gregoryscott9681
    @gregoryscott9681 Месяц назад +2

    I much appreciate you're videos. That wind can be brutal coming off the lake. But, you're gonna have to go back. The northern most town is Copper Harbor, up at the end of the Keewenaw Peninsula. Beautiful place.

  • @charlesrocks
    @charlesrocks Месяц назад +27

    My mother is from Ontonagon. My grand father was from Finland. This reminds me of home.

    • @gorfpatrol2073
      @gorfpatrol2073 Месяц назад +2

      Mita kuuluu suomalainen

    • @backwatersandbackroads
      @backwatersandbackroads Месяц назад +3

      I live in Ontonagon now. Moved here in 2015. Love it

    • @larryminton2670
      @larryminton2670 Месяц назад +4

      I lived in Southern California at the time I went to Ontonagon the first week of October and it was 32 degrees and saw local men wearing t-shirts outside. Crazy!

  • @bjkjoseph
    @bjkjoseph Месяц назад +101

    Don’t tell me you find homeless up there?

    • @up-uw4op
      @up-uw4op Месяц назад +44

      yes you absolutely do and they camp in the woods in winter or squat in abandoned houses. they panhandle in all types of weather but especially in summer

    • @bjkjoseph
      @bjkjoseph Месяц назад +7

      @@up-uw4op are they Eskimos?

    • @up-uw4op
      @up-uw4op Месяц назад +10

      @@bjkjoseph they must be to tolerate that cold. They use wood or mini propane heaters to stay warm.

    • @leahvalta5991
      @leahvalta5991 Месяц назад +7

      Well, we just give em' a bus ticket usually

    • @joeerskine3920
      @joeerskine3920 Месяц назад +4

      He is homeless

  • @GamblersUnknown
    @GamblersUnknown 13 дней назад +1

    You must’ve came the only week we had snow lol. Thanks for coming to our great little town

  • @srmarketto
    @srmarketto Месяц назад +1

    Good deal, showed up in my feed. I live in Negaunee about 10 miles west of Marquette. This winter was super mild, not much snow and warmer. Hope you enjoyed your visit!

  • @rossfenneken
    @rossfenneken Месяц назад +14

    Northwest Ohio guy here. Been to the UP twice. Very nice up there. Bucket list to go again.

  • @jeneanmoebius5676
    @jeneanmoebius5676 Месяц назад +2

    Yooper here, Marquette is getting hit up to 37 inches of snow tonight and 60 degrees expected on the 8th! Unpredictable but beautiful! Have a good one eh!

  • @debrapaulsonphotography-da4857
    @debrapaulsonphotography-da4857 Месяц назад +1

    Wow! I was wondering if the movie "Anatomy of a Murder" would be mentioned and you did not disappoint! Thanks for showing that bar - so cool!

  • @robertwiebenga5492
    @robertwiebenga5492 Месяц назад +11

    Hey Nick was there in 1993 from Melbourne Australia with my cousin he is from Michigan never seen anything like it what a great place love those lakes thanks for the memories

  • @Last_day_events
    @Last_day_events Месяц назад +8

    "I don't miss the cold. But It's nice to come up occasionally." Well said.

  • @TheDevilsTail
    @TheDevilsTail Месяц назад +2

    Great video Nico!

  • @dashrender9320
    @dashrender9320 Месяц назад +1

    My homeboys brother when to Michigan Tech about an hour north of Marquette . I live 25 north of Detroit . It took us almost 8 hours to drive there. Best trip to take as a 15 year old. 1992.

  • @CJHump
    @CJHump Месяц назад +24

    I've been watching you for many years. This was the best episode you've done.

  • @coldlyanalytical1351
    @coldlyanalytical1351 Месяц назад +11

    UK here : we have had week after week after week of rain and grey skies .. with no sign of any improvement coming.
    We used to have snow drifts - but now we have endless road flooding.
    If this is our future, we are going to have to move.

  • @wendi2819
    @wendi2819 Месяц назад +2

    UP is on my bucket list hopefully very soon! Very beautiful even if it is very cold in winter 🥶❤

  • @johncrouch6103
    @johncrouch6103 Месяц назад +1

    As a native Michigander ( grew up in Lansing) i’ve always wanted to visit Marquette. You just did it for me. Good stuff Nick!

  • @kbran4414
    @kbran4414 Месяц назад +10

    Yay Marquette! I am loving these drone shots, Nick! Great video!

  • @raysboatingandadventure1277
    @raysboatingandadventure1277 Месяц назад +7

    This was a mild winter. One year temperatures were below 0 f for 6 weeks, high 5 below, night 15-25 below 0 f. Don't get started on snow, start Monday am, stop on Tuesday pm. The college is northern michigan university. Don't forget the real end of earth is in porcupine mountains. Nice video, thanks for the trip.

  • @IgnoretheButter
    @IgnoretheButter Месяц назад

    I moved back to the U.P. after being gone for two winters. Calumet Michigan❤. Most mild winter I can remember. First green christmas. We're just now getting some good snow in late March. 10-13in tonight!

  • @taipan9604
    @taipan9604 Месяц назад +1

    I've been to Marquette before and I've been to Fairbanks Alaska in February and Marquette is very warm compared to Marquette, it's just a lot more snowy. Fairbanks was -60 F at 4pm when I was there. Couldn't wait to get home.

  • @2ndchanceguy
    @2ndchanceguy Месяц назад +22

    Freaking Nick. I remember the good ol days when you were a 30k subscriber kinda guy. You're now practically the most famous person in the entire world 😂

  • @sued.530
    @sued.530 Месяц назад +7

    Thanks for the memories Nick! Attended NMU 47 years ago and loved watching the ships come in at night all lit up. Definitely need to revisit the area.

  • @williamstamper442
    @williamstamper442 Месяц назад +1

    A drag racer friend of mine went to the college up there. He only owned a snowmobile to get from his living quarters to school. A 600hp Buick GS wouldn't have worked during the school season.
    I'm too old to snowmobile anymore, I done sold them off...but last time I went to the UP to ride, we took only marked trails and went from Lake Superior, Tequomenon falls, then down to a bar on Lake Michigan for lunch. Then rode back for dinner on Superior

    • @NickJohnson
      @NickJohnson  Месяц назад +1

      Fun! Snowmobile needs an emoji 🛷

  • @robatsea2009
    @robatsea2009 Месяц назад

    I think this was one of your most enjoyable videos - despite the cold you seemed to be having a legitimately fun time there.

  • @knikula
    @knikula Месяц назад +4

    UP in the winter, just doesn't get better than that... I thought there would be a lot of weed places in Marquette...seems Ironwood is building them all the time...

  • @speedy423
    @speedy423 Месяц назад +18

    I didn't see not one BudLight.😂

  • @simp2662
    @simp2662 Месяц назад +1

    Im happy you covered N-Michigan too in your journeys. When will you make a video about Alaska and or/parts of Canada? Those could be interesting!

  • @willisjefferson5886
    @willisjefferson5886 Месяц назад +22

    Well, I am glad you asked Nick, I know I am a man a very few words, 3 to be exact but here is a little back story, after surviving a near fatal train wreck 7 years ago and the subsequent rebuilding of my spinal column I by chance found the Nick Johnson You Tube channel. Nick took me all around the country to bad places and very good places and all in between. I find the humor amazing, Mappy and the Family and the discussions between Nick and Mappy are Epic. This carried me a long way in my recovery. Well, Good news is I will be on the road myself this Spring and Summer, going to Concerts and generally causing mayhem , So that's the story and I am sticking to it, Thanks for the Ride Nick...Another Gem

    • @NickJohnson
      @NickJohnson  Месяц назад +8

      Wow I am so glad to hear good news!! ❤️❤️ you get back on the road. I'm happy if youre happy! And Mappy says HI!!

    • @user-nw6qp1ki2n
      @user-nw6qp1ki2n Месяц назад +2

      May Allah bless you 💙🙏🏻💜

    • @YtheMain
      @YtheMain Месяц назад +3

      That's great! I wish you a full recovery. Greetings from The Netherlands

  • @anttheaquarist7922
    @anttheaquarist7922 Месяц назад +5

    Bro, best video yet! Watching this trip has been informative and flippin' hilarious!

  • @josephmarkle4735
    @josephmarkle4735 Месяц назад +1

    I lived in Adirondack park of upstate NY ..1980s....loved winter....but 15 below zero got to me and houses froze up ...but the cold was exhilarating....

  • @LivingInMarquetteMichigan
    @LivingInMarquetteMichigan 15 дней назад +1

    Great video! It's so important for folks to understand that it does actually get cold here! So many visit in the summer and move and then realize they can't stand the snow once the winter hits! Need to embrace it if you live in Marquette or the U.P. for that matter!

  • @screamotrucker
    @screamotrucker Месяц назад +18

    You wanted snow and the UP of Michigan will NEVER let you down on that !

    • @NickJohnson
      @NickJohnson  Месяц назад +5

      I know! ❄️ ❄️❄️

  • @Ekkis25
    @Ekkis25 Месяц назад

    I used to travel to Erie for business-there were 2 forecasts the regular snow cast and the lake effect which was anyone's guess. I would fly into Erie and work my way up to Syracuse and I saw some fantastic snows over 11 years! But i only missed one appointment (I made it to a small town near Buffalo and the client cancelled.) My territory was western PA and NY. Even with that snow they did a great job with the roads and airports I always made it home to St. Louis, delays sometimes but never failed to get home!

  • @johnheydt6385
    @johnheydt6385 Месяц назад

    BTW, if you're ever interested in seeing ice fishing, go to Lake Milacs in Minnesota. During normal weather, there will be an entire build up town ontop of the lake, including roads and a bar. Should be novel to enjoy your beer there

  • @Jeffs9304
    @Jeffs9304 Месяц назад +26

    Nicks the man! He walks the walk

  • @margiejane1
    @margiejane1 Месяц назад +13

    My grandma used to talk about going to Thunderbay. She was raised I Ottawa CA after emigrating from England in 1900. The went there because the Bore Wars were going on and who had time for that. My grandfather also grew up in Ottawa. His mom and dad emigrated from Ireland. If you're a McAuley in Ottawa, we're probably related, lol. But they emigrated to Detroit after ww1. My mom loved Detroit. She went to the grave pissed my dad moved her to rural Ohio for work.

  • @joshb-8810
    @joshb-8810 Месяц назад

    Great video, Nick! I love visiting the UP, especially the Porcupine Mountains to the west of Marquette.

  • @evangelinateague175
    @evangelinateague175 Месяц назад +2

    Hey Nick, you ever thought about doing a video in Buffalo NY? I would love to see one!👍😎

  • @tudo8412
    @tudo8412 Месяц назад +6

    I can’t stand the Cold 🥶 Just looking at the picture makes me want to cover myself with a blanket. Well, I’ll be in the South for the rest of my life. Thank you Nick for sharing and have a safe Journey.

    • @user-ml8ud6qd2u
      @user-ml8ud6qd2u Месяц назад +2

      Agree 👍. I did over 40 winters in my life from long island to Plattsburgh to Buffalo to Boston to New York city. Now in the sunshine state. 68. This is where I will stay. When people say oh it's so hot. I respond in the summer that is true but they have this great invention it's called air conditioning. 😊😊😊😊

  • @Brian-sh4sm
    @Brian-sh4sm Месяц назад +1

    I went Northern Michigan for college 55 years ago ,it was fun skiing everyday 😊

  • @genegorringe7395
    @genegorringe7395 Месяц назад +12

    I grew up in Northern Michigan there's no place better. Gene Gorringe Mi USA 💛 💙 🇺🇲

    • @GEN_X_
      @GEN_X_ Месяц назад +2

      Yes there is.. .warmer places. LMAO

  • @SunRabbit
    @SunRabbit Месяц назад +2

    Thanks for making this video! Yeah, I've been to Michigan only twice, both times for work, and although I didn't get to see the UP, almost everyone in MI seems to talk about it a lot. The people were very nice! I did visit a place called Pere Marquette, but it wasn't anything special. As someone from a cold country in Europe with long cold winters, it seemed like a place I could really get into if I wanted to live in the USA, which I don't.

  • @deanr60
    @deanr60 Месяц назад +2

    You’re crazy Nick. Fun to visit the great white north as long as I can come right back to Florida

  • @33Donner77
    @33Donner77 Месяц назад +9

    "Lake Superior it's said, never gives up its dead . . . " It's TOO COLD ! But worth the visit.

  • @NewHaven203
    @NewHaven203 Месяц назад +5

    Here in Connecticut we had 2 snow storms and about 2 weeks of snow on the ground the whole winter season, very light for a Southern Connecticut winter

    • @NickJohnson
      @NickJohnson  Месяц назад +2

      Next year it's on Joey ❄️❄️

  • @schonkable
    @schonkable Месяц назад +1

    Marquette looks beautiful! It actually makes me miss real winters.

  • @markpiekaczpiekacz912
    @markpiekaczpiekacz912 Месяц назад +2

    Hay in Daytona Florida it rains every morning from 7:00 -7:30 in the spring.

  • @svenjanssen08
    @svenjanssen08 Месяц назад +4

    Awesome, love the more traveling idea of the vid. U made a cold, icy part of the us so warm and welcoming. Cool peeps there!

  • @Chris.P-rd6bf
    @Chris.P-rd6bf Месяц назад +4

    Your not cold until the snot freezes on your mustache.

  • @Sues007
    @Sues007 Месяц назад +1

    Thank you very much. I'd love to live there in Marquette but couldn't do it alone!

  • @dpmiller1000
    @dpmiller1000 Месяц назад

    I got to spend 3 years up there at K.I. Sawyer. More snow than I could ever imagine. Marquette is where you went, when you went to town.

  • @Steven-em5if
    @Steven-em5if Месяц назад +4

    I stumbled across your video on my RUclips feed. I grew up in a small village in the UP. We had about a hundred people in it, nothing but woods north to Lake Superior, south to Lake Michigan. I wouldn’t trade my childhood for anything, I still live up here. I am 67 and was a truck driver and know how unique the place is.

  • @devonneshort4749
    @devonneshort4749 Месяц назад +8

    Its looks so nice small town . People are nice! We live in Idaho and it has changed people are not friendly anymore🤔. Nick another awesome video🥰

    • @NickJohnson
      @NickJohnson  Месяц назад +2

      Aww Idaho people can be so wonderful sorry to hear it's changed 😢

    • @devonneshort4749
      @devonneshort4749 Месяц назад +1

      @@NickJohnson Too Many Californian's🤔

  • @n0tawhale902
    @n0tawhale902 Месяц назад +2

    I played a lot of hockey up there growing up! Please I hope you visited the southern- most UP point in the Menominee MI/ Marinette WI area!

    • @NickJohnson
      @NickJohnson  Месяц назад +1

      I did - it'll be in another video!

  • @Badkittys4
    @Badkittys4 Месяц назад +2

    Much like Wisconsin, Bars, sleds and fishing, that's about it, love it there, hey Nick, White Fox Fur & Feather shop in Pemberton Minnesota makes BIG fur hats like the fox one you liked, all fur types, I have several, gorgeous, well made and reasonable 😊

    • @NickJohnson
      @NickJohnson  Месяц назад +1

      I want one melody!!

    • @Badkittys4
      @Badkittys4 Месяц назад

      @@NickJohnson I know where the gittin place is

    • @up-uw4op
      @up-uw4op Месяц назад

      UP is way better than Wisconsin. Wisconsin is crawling with tweakers

  • @alansewell7810
    @alansewell7810 Месяц назад +5

    This is the tough time of year up there. The rest of the country is getting into spring while Northern Michigan still has two more months of winter. High today is 33 with snow on the way. You get a couple days in late March and early April when the highs get into the 60s and the sun seems strong You think you're safe, and then Mother Nature unloads more weeks of snow and blizzards. I lived full time in Northern Michigan for two years, and experienced a blizzard on Mother's Day. The short summers (about June 15 to September 15) are delightful in the awesome beauty of the land and splendid days, but you have to wait a long time for them to arrive.

    • @NorthwoodsWolf
      @NorthwoodsWolf Месяц назад +3

      Fall is stunning up there, though.

  • @Lavender-doll
    @Lavender-doll Месяц назад +5

    Oh…I attended NMU there in 1966. I transferred after a couple of years and graduated from another college. Had loads of fun!!!!

  • @guayames
    @guayames Месяц назад +1

    Love the snow, but happy to live in South Florida!

  • @mritzs5142
    @mritzs5142 Месяц назад

    You're still a lil pup!! great video as always Nick

  • @kenjohnson5498
    @kenjohnson5498 Месяц назад +9

    When i was younger i was working in Tn at a power plant for MJ electric who is stationed in Marquette Michigan and they offered me a chance to get in the electricians apprenticeship program but i would have to move to Marquette and after seeing the snow amounts and average temps i had to politely decline

  • @handoverfist5857
    @handoverfist5857 Месяц назад +3

    I heard that around the end of October, if you look at the moon, you can see the governor flying around on her broom.

  • @brendawhisenhunt8444
    @brendawhisenhunt8444 Месяц назад

    You still had some fun!!! Great video.

  • @treasuretom13
    @treasuretom13 Месяц назад

    Nick you did get a little snow on your stashe, I'll give you that..but only a frozen stache qualifies as a real UPer! 😂 Thanks for covering a side of Marquette I hadn't seen in years, I went to school there love it especially Summers💚

  • @meedwards5
    @meedwards5 Месяц назад +13

    My parents and sisters used to live in Marquette. They absolutely loved it!

  • @chalesgolding5314
    @chalesgolding5314 Месяц назад +11

    The Great Lakes are truly incredible , thanks for another great video Nick ! Keep up the great work

  • @johngriffith7315
    @johngriffith7315 Месяц назад +1

    One of my favorite towns! Love Marquette.