Attractions

Tune in to see actor Jeff Daniels as a Buckless Yooper. In addition, learn about a professional baseball team’s mascot called Mr. Celery, and the Museum of Funeral Customs that has one focus — death.

Business

Ever drink an okra martini or lather up with a luxury soap named after the lowly boll weevil? Need live crickets – fast? Click here to find out more about these and other businesses that offer unusual products and services!

Dining

Pass the napkins, please. You can get a fried double bologna burger, or try a pig sandwich, green chili slopper or coffee potato ice cream. Wash everything down with a white birch beer from the Hall of Foam.

Oddities

Time out: A Division I college football game actually had a final score of 222-0. Also, somebody had to invent Mother’s Day, and a city called Skullbone got its name from hosting bare-knuckle boxing matches.

Festivals

What’s that smell? Be sure to attend a celebration that features outhouse races, then bring a breath mint to the annual Garlic Festival. In addition, applaud the lucky and deserving winner of the Slug Queen Pageant.

Buckless Yooper
April in Paris, Autumn in New York, Escanaba in da Moonlight.

Not every community gets its name into the title of a feature film, but Escanaba did when Michigan native Jeff Daniels wrote, directed and starred in this comedy about Upper Peninsula deer hunters.

The 2000 movie is about five Upper Peninsula residents who set up camp on the night before hunting season opens in 1989. Daniels plays a 43-year-old man who has never bagged a buck, and is known around the U.P. town as the “buckless yooper.”

This film and the 1959 Anatomy of a Murder are the only two feature-length movies ever shot in the Upper Peninsula. Escanaba in da Moonlight grossed $3 million at the box office, and nearly 100,000 DVDs have been sold since its 2002 release.