Unknown Up North: Quirky Nicknames For Towns in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula

Michigan's Upper Peninsula is full of amazing small towns that are great to visit and even better to call home.

As the resident Yooper on staff, I've been deemed the person with the most insight and expertise when it comes to the area.

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Truth be told, I haven't lived in the U.P. in 22 years, but I do still visit often. So while I may not be the world's premier expert on all things Upper Peninsula, I know a lot about it and have spent a lot of time there.

Recently, a post in a Facebook Group dedicated to all things U.P. piqued my interest. The original poster simply listed a couple of nicknames they had heard for U.P. towns and were wondering if there were any others that they had missed. It turns out, there were - a lot of them actually.

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Nearly 182 commenters chimed in to share the nicknames that they themselves use or had heard used by others. And I was fascinated. Having spent the first twenty years of my life in the Upper Peninsula, I thought that I would have heard them all. But no. There were some that were completely new to me, and a few that made me laugh out loud.

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So, I've culled through the comments and put together a list of some of my favorite quirky nicknames for Upper Peninsula towns. Let's take a look.

Want to learn more about the weird and wonderful world of the U.P.? Here's the A to Z of the U.P.