I Investigated The Most Northern Little Town in America
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 มี.ค. 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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"IM COLD"
...but i'm doing this for youtube 😅
Love it!
Hope you listened to Gordon Lightfoots " wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" as you stood at the foot of lake superior 😊
You're letting your freak flag fly and I'm so here for it. Liking it more and more ❤❤❤
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.
@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!
I’m in Florida 30 years but miss my home state of Michigan often. UP is beautiful…
YAH BOY FROZEN TO THE GROUND
Only in the Summer. LMAO
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
I'll take the Florida gov. over Michigans any day!
Sssssh! You're supposed to keep that quiet! We don't want too many city folk moving up here!
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!
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.
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.
@@alansewell7810this whole comment thread is wonderful to read! How cool!
Yeah, my grandpa moved to Munising to do that. Then went to South Bend, West Virssippi (INDIANA) to work at Studebaker
Michigan is a liberal dung hole now.
You should go back in the summer. The Upper Peninsula is beautiful in the summer!
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
Bugs bugs and bugs... oh and tourist..hahah it is great
It’s a really fun place to enjoy the outdoors. Make sure to pack some mosquito spray 😅
Cant find the best rocks in the winter!! 😂
@@wendytipon6020 This winter probly could of, ‘the winter that wasn’t’
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.
No no, send them to Milwaukee or Duluth. Nothing to see here. Sorry you've been mislead. Marquette is the perfect size right now.
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.
Family in Marquette.
Overpopulation. A real thing that noone seems to recognize yet. Soon that will be self evident to all.
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
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 !!!
So very true
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!!
Don’t come. You’ll regret.
That’s what plane tickets are for. Just go. Try it out.
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.
Back in 1980 Michigan had a huge exodus of young men who left to Texas for work and never came back.
@@williamstamper442 Yup, I'm sure I worked with some of them. Some I liked and some were just crappy. The crappy came from Detroit
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! 😅
Absolutely. The rest of michigan does not include the UP and many things suffer because of it
I think the UP should be it's own state! Just my opinion though. @@BobSmith-kk7lx
Lot of people talked to don't know we have a bridge 5 miles long, when telling them they say no ah.
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
💃🏻❤ Over there are all the girls as pretty as you?😏😂😆😎✌️
@@Aaron-us2uxstop being a pervert. You dirty ole hound dog
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.
From there too..well actually gwinn
Favorite place is presque isle
Now that is the Michigan I know. Snowing like hell
Michigan totally underrated.😊
Minus the crazy governor.
It's a beautiful place to live
@12NFLtitles she's the best!!!
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.
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.
I think the isolation is a big factor for folks living up there. It's not for everybody.
I love the cold and isolation. The snow is so peaceful and beautiful. There’s nothing like a sunny winters day with very little wind
Proud Yooper here (grew up about 60 miles south of Marquette). Beautiful country, and hopefully it remains unspoiled.
Yes agree leave this little Gem unspoiled.
Had the pleasure to live in Marquette for 7 years. It truly is a magnificent city. Best kept secret of the Midwest.
Queen City of the UP 👍
Marquette is beautiful. I lived in Ishpeming and Michigamme for about 3 years as a kid before moving back to California.
@@nobody_special012 Hardly anyone is moving to Cali these days. People are leaving that state in mass droves to escape the hypercost of living, hyper taxes, high crime/lawlessness, gangbangs/cutthroats and mass homeless.
The most northern little town in America is actually Utqiagvik, Alaska, formally known as Barrow. Alaska is in the United States.
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
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.
Dry fluffy snow, that’s cold 🥶
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!
I would love to live in a place like this nice and cold I love the cold weather
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.
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.
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.
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'. 😬
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
That’s great
I drive there from Minnesota a lot 🤫 🤫 💨
Hello fellow Ironwoodies. What a strange winter huh? January was nicer than March haha, Mother Naitch always so unpredictable here 💎💚💎💚
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!
Let all the "new comers" know how great it is so they can head there. 😂
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.
cos he be bar hopping! ha ha
He better be strapped before going to Wisconsin
That’s bc Nick is LIT.
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.
I applaud you 🎉
I love Iron Mountain
Alberta, MI too
That Glider museum is a MUST if you visit Iron Mountain.
There will be some of that history in another video
I'm a Michigander and have heard of Marquette but I've never been up there. Thanks for this video
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.
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.
HUGE snowbanks on the streets 👍
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.
"I don't miss the cold. But It's nice to come up occasionally." Well said.
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!
Living in Michigan sucks. It's very liberal and high taxes.
Luv 💕 pasties.
You have also fans in Europe! Much love from Holland, the Flower and Cheese Nation!
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@@NewHaven203 NederLand?
Thank you Holland - God be with you!
viva Holanda. @@Sues007
Interesting that I've visited both Michigan and Holland for work! Loved both! I stayed in Zaandam, NL. Love from Czech Republic. 👋
Northwest Ohio guy here. Been to the UP twice. Very nice up there. Bucket list to go again.
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
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 "
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.
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.
I loved this. Brings me back to my 20s of living in southern Ontario and then Port Huron/Fort Gratiot Michigan. Great people!
Wow its windy there hope your safe ...excellent touring videos 👍
My mother is from Ontonagon. My grand father was from Finland. This reminds me of home.
Mita kuuluu suomalainen
I live in Ontonagon now. Moved here in 2015. Love it
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!
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.
Good luck with that bro. 80 million migrants now tread this land. We’ve been replaced
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.
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!
Got a nice chuckle I live in fairbanks and there are a lot of towns north of here.
Good photography.
I got cold fingers just for you guys 🥶
Don't freeze Nick! America needs you.
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....
You must’ve came the only week we had snow lol. Thanks for coming to our great little town
I heard that around the end of October, if you look at the moon, you can see the governor flying around on her broom.
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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!
I want to visit there. Thanks for your videos.
Interesting. Thanks
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.
Go for the 4th!
A+ video!
Awesome overview and tour of Marquette, Michigan!
Thank you very much. I'd love to live there in Marquette but couldn't do it alone!
One of my favorite towns! Love Marquette.
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.
"Lake Superior it's said, never gives up its dead . . . " It's TOO COLD ! But worth the visit.
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.
Thanks for showing us the ski hill
I didn't see not one BudLight.😂
You won't! Busch Country!
Nick … you’re the World’s Greatest You Tuber. And you’re the reason why the mainstream media is collapsing. God bless…
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Love the snow, but happy to live in South Florida!
UP is on my bucket list hopefully very soon! Very beautiful even if it is very cold in winter 🥶❤
Bro, best video yet! Watching this trip has been informative and flippin' hilarious!
Yay Marquette! I am loving these drone shots, Nick! Great video!
Nice video of my hometown.
great video...thanks! however ya missed the two biggest outdoor winter activities in Marquette MI........ cross country skiing and winter fat biking!
Thanks for sharing today
Thanks for watching!
I've been watching you for many years. This was the best episode you've done.
agreed
I went Northern Michigan for college 55 years ago ,it was fun skiing everyday 😊
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!
Lucky!
Great video Nico!
We lived on K.I FROM 66 TO 83..LOL
My parents and sisters used to live in Marquette. They absolutely loved it!
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...
This City is amazing and the most beautiful place in my mind I have lived there for most of my life and it’s a place everyone should think of going
Hay in Daytona Florida it rains every morning from 7:00 -7:30 in the spring.
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
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!!
May Allah bless you 💙🙏🏻💜
That's great! I wish you a full recovery. Greetings from The Netherlands
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@@ucanrestwhenudie499 Nick Johnson has inspired me to get out and see the World in-spit of my disabilities. Nick Johnson is a Great Man, Good luck in your journeys my Friend
You have fans in Poland too! You drink almost as much as we do.
And as much as Australians 🇦🇺🤣
❤️ 🇵🇱 🇦🇺
@NocturN4 I love the polish, we have a large Polish community in New Britain, Connecticut, there’s even a neighborhood called “Little Poland”
Cleveland loves their pierogies
I have lived in Michigan my whole life and I think the UP is one of the most beautiful areas of the country. Yoopers are some of the nicest people in the world and have some excellent values. They do have one drawback however....many of them are Packer fans but we will forgive them! Thanks Nick for another amazing video.
Great video, Nick! I love visiting the UP, especially the Porcupine Mountains to the west of Marquette.
Nick Johnson is awesome
Oh…I attended NMU there in 1966. I transferred after a couple of years and graduated from another college. Had loads of fun!!!!
I have family there. Haven't been there since I was a kid but I did have fun. 😊
My daughter loved her time at Northern Michigan University. Great place and great people
Love the video Nick, “Awesome” love your stuff, keep up the amazing videos 👍😎
Cool video! I lived in Marquette in 2022 and worked at Northern Michigan University.
Grin at the end spoke volumes to me
Nicks the man! He walks the walk
He shuffles at times
@@NickJohnson lol
I grew up in Northern Michigan there's no place better. Gene Gorringe Mi USA 💛 💙 🇺🇲
Yes there is.. .warmer places. LMAO
I think this was one of your most enjoyable videos - despite the cold you seemed to be having a legitimately fun time there.
I put Marquette on my bucket list about a year ago. Looks like a wonderful place!
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.
WHAT A BEAUTIFUL LITTLE PLACE! I'm in love
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.
I visited and had relatives there years ago. Great place.
I stumbled across your video on my TH-cam 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.
Ok Steve!
I grew up going to the UP all the time. Mostly on the western side in Wakefield and Ironwood. I love it up there. It's so gorgeous.
THX NICK. This was fun. 😊😊
I lived outside of Marquette for 5.5 years. I loved it up there!
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.
My husband and I spent about a week in Marquette, but it was in the summer, and we loved it! I am a no go in the winter, good for you!
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
Next year it's on Joey ❄️❄️
I love the mountain biking and restaurants in Marquette. Really some of the best mountain biking I’ve done in the entire USA.
Thanks Nick