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Friday: Outdoors

Report: 81 million Americans camped in 2024 amid growing demand for campsites

More than 81 million Americans camped in 2024, including 5.8 million first-time campers, according to a new report from The Dyrt, a popular camping app that tracks industry trends. The company released its 2025 Camping Report last month, highlighting shifts in camping behavior and ongoing ...

Outdoors North: The soothing waves of relative silence

“They said, ‘What’s up is down.’ They said, “What isn’t, is.’ They put ideas in his head that he thought were his,” – Bob Dylan I’m walking down a snow-covered two-track road with the gray-blue skies overhead catching my eye as the sunlight peeks through briefly and touches ...

Pure Michigan promotes slow tourism movement in state

MUNISING — Pure Michigan is encouraging travelers to stop and smell the tulips this year through its promotion of slow tourism practices. The Pure Michigan campaign predicts that the slow travel trend will surge in popularity in 2025 as people seek ways to unwind from “years of ...

Grants awarded to support recycling

HANCOCK — Thirty projects statewide, including two in the Upper Peninsula, have received funding to advance reuse, repair, and recovery of materials and grow markets for recycled materials The projects from the public, private, and nonprofit sectors will share $5.6 million in Circular ...

Outdoors North

In a dark deep canyon, on a north-facing slope where sunlight rarely shines, a couple of fallen trees had been laid across a big drop in the narrow trail. A tiny creek twisted back and forth below. After the winter snows fall, the trees vanish under the accumulation of snow and ice, providing ...