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Ford was the first HOA karen.

Awesome. I was born in Detroit in 1967. I have lived within 50 miles of Belle Isle my entire life and I have never been there. During the Crack epidemic in the 80’s lots of people my age stayed away. Some went down for the Saturday night brawls/ so I heard. LovEd Your history lesson. I’ll check it out sometime. I could tell what time of year it was by your tan yooper. Your videos are like a mini vacation. Great work 🍒

Who says it's not man made?

Sault….is rapids in French…..St Mary’s rapids.

Only seeing the thumbnail and first half of the title I fully thought this was going to be about granite island. Super interesting that the lighthouses are essentially twins!

Ive spent this week in the u.p. for vacation and am a geology nerd. Your videos have paved the way to a grandtime looking at cool stuff along the way! Thank you for your videos!

That was cool! I had no idea about Michigan's ties to the Copper industry, learned a lot here!

Great info and presentstion! So cool you got the opportunity to climb the bridge. Wishing your channel much success and excited to see what's next

That rift probably helped a little with lake Michigan an lake Huron to if it was in between Minneapolis and Detroit

They named the glacier an the glacial period in the mid west Wisconsin an it left behind the great lakes one of them being named Michigan I love that

My name is Maxton, named after the Maxton Plains of Drummond. Very cool to see this place I've grown up around documented!

16:15 One key point to note regarding "why not build it bigger" is that you would then run into the exact same problem they have now with most of the traffic going through the larger of the two locks. If given an opportunity, shipping companies will ABSOLUTELY build ships larger if they know they will fit in a lock, and then you run into the same issue, except now the ships are too big even for the Po. Making the new lock the same size means you can now send ships through either lock, which adds redundancy in case one lock goes out of service.

Bigger or longer locks are impractical, as a longer ship will have difficulty navigating some areas in various rivers and ports. As it is some turns and channels width and depths in the river just accommodate the 1000 footers.

It was not clear, but the very first locks on the St. Mary's River was in Canada. The first lock to be built in the St. Marys River was on the Canadian side in 1798 by the Northwest Fur Company to facilitate the fur trade. It was destroyed by the Americans in 1814 during the War of 1812 to disrupt British trade. Currently, a single small lock is operated on the Canadian side of the Soo.

i used to work on the railroad bridges next to the international bridge. walking across the top of the vertical lift span in the up position to check out the bascule bridge was pretty stressful.

I still don't understand why anyone cares about these boring things. Don't come to Franklin, NJ or you'll finally see how banal and snooze-inducing these leaverites are. Zzzzzzzzzzz.........

I just broke a long unbroken stretch to move to Keweenaw. ❤

I would be SO worried about dropping the camera while up on top of the bridge lol

You just told them what will be their next target.

HEY I LIVE HERE

Mehhh, that's like 4% of the amount we've given to other countries to fuel war in the last 2 weeks lmao. 1 trillion isn't anything to this democratic rule.......

I thought it was pronounced Soo like so-ooooo

Idk why I found it so funny to see a video about life in the UP 😂born & raised here, north of the bridge AND north of the bridge (Keweenaw Peninsula). This will always be home to me and I wouldn’t want it any other way… the long, ridiculously snowy winters; the endless days on Lake Superior in any season; long drives through endless forest country roads & seeing two dozen people you know every time you run to town. I don’t care that there’s “no shopping” here. I don’t care that shoveling takes up half of your waking hours during the winter. I don’t care that your choices for eating out and other “going out” experiences are extremely limited. Life is what you make of it, and life up here is pure, rugged, untouched, peace.

You are so cute ❤

We watched her leave the Duluth harbor along the pier.

I love your storytelling!

That IS man-made or by Design with much human influence... You could say... Nature just simply does not create angles of the sorts. Nature CAN do that, please do not get me wrong but it is just such a reach in claiming this is a natural or organic structure and aching to saying a tornado will breeze through a junkyard and leave three shiny gold Ferraris in its path... Sure, Nature could do that but it just doesn't Thx for the content, you're amazing... But also wrong from time to time ♑🌕🐉🦖

i live in da UP eh and i have never heard of that place i have seen the fault line when they showed us it in the white pine mine . i live in Bessmer but was raised in white pine . so its cool you showed me something i never heard of before and im 41 years old lol

❤ Alexis storytelling

A single point of failure. Thats so amerika....

The great lakes region is beautiful

The government losing $1 trillion…what’s new lmao

Recently found your channel. This is another great vid! One critique...the mining company was Calumet & Hecla (not Helca). Both parents grew up in the Keweenaw. Spent a lot of time up there as a kid and remember copper ore freighters passing the cottage on Portage Lake. Remember the local paper printing pictures of horrifically mutated fish that were pulled out of Torch Lake.

this is not all that clever, by any stretch of imagination. we dig stuff up and then need to transport it very cheaply, so we build great big things that further interfere with nature, to get large amounts of low value material transported cheaply. if we were clever, we wouldnt be doing this, but it would most likely put a spanner in the overlords grip on humanity. not saying we should still live in caves, as there's not enough to go round, but moving low value stuff long distances doesnt strike me as clever.

"Holy cow?" Or, instead of climbing to the top a a bridge, you could have used a drone view?

So did other parks deteriorate but more people.

I love this place. Been fishing around it all my life and had many of days swimming and jumping off the islands rocks. If you go to the opposite side of the dock there is a nice spot to jump about 20 feet high

one of the coolest things about the Soo Locks is that the Canadian side lets you go through on personal boats and canoes and stuff

Why they sank is no great mystery. The smaller details of the sinking will forever elude us. They were simply out in weather they had no business being in. I don't care a hoot about seaworthiness, or past storms or any of that jazz. The simple fact is the boat is sunk along with 29 people. You got a giant storm going on and they were out on the lake. That decision lies in the hands of the captain. There was never a time that they could not have got out of the weather and dropped the hook. Actually had they done that the Fitzgerald would probably still be in service. But they pushed the issue and they lost. Now how can I say all this? I spent years crewing some of those "steamers" Been all over and inside them. I have seen Superior storms with my own eyes. Basically I don't think a load of anything is worth sailing in that kind of weather.

Great video! And you are stunningly beautiful!

I fish there one time didn't get anything

This video, along with Warren Schlote's video on Sudbury brecchia helping train the Apollo astronauts to recognize impact geology, has totally transformed my understanding of the Lake Superior area. Thank you for the accessible presentation!

I was originally born in Kalamazoo but now I live in Texas, but one of my neighbors where from the U.P. and I noticed that they sorta have a French under tone to the way they pronounced certain words course from what I remember about Michigan there was a French tone to the whole state.

well i wasnt expecting this in my recomendeds. i live on the canadian side

There was a war in the 1812s? As a European I've never heard of this war.

I know im late to the party, but loving the series. If you are interested in company towns in the Keweenaw copper area, I'd suggest reading Cradle To Grave by Lary Lankton, an MTU professor that passed a few years ago. He was a great historian on the area. He was my professor for many classes when I was a student back in the late 90s and knew everything about the history of the area.

This girl needs to expand her area of focus. She’s really good at presenting topics.

I'd love for you to do a video on the old missile sites north of Copper Harbor. Your ability to dig for facts and present them in such an upbeat and fun manner would make a great video, Alexis.

Its sort of natural but still fascinating, it exactly the same in northern Scandinavia with the land rising after the ice

Just came across you when I saw your video on the Soo Locks. It brought back memories of childhood family trips from New Hampshire to the UP to visit my paternal grandparents in Ishpeming. One time we came up through the Lower Peninsula so we could see the Locks and then a drive over The Mighty Mac. I hope to get back out there soon even though there's no family remaining in the UP.