Yooperlites can be found as loose pebbles and cobbles along many Lake Superior beaches and even in some inland gravel pits.

Here's what you need to know about this newly discovered rock, along with information on how you can hunt for your own Yooperlites on your next trip to the Upper Peninsula. What is a Yooperlite? ...

Spring is the best time to search for Yooperlites and other rocks, according to Pure Michigan, because winter ice moved beach sand ... Grand Marais and in the Keweenaw Peninsula.

The Beechcraft plane carrying pilot Robert Carew, co-pilot Gordon Jones and graduate student Velayudh Krishna Menon left Madison, Wisconsin, for Lake Superior on Oct. 23, 1968. They were collecting ...

GAYLORD — The Keweenaw peninsula in the Upper Peninsula is held ... sold out of their photographic collection of Copper Country rocks. The presentation at the library will feature photos of ...

Gomez is chief of interpretation for the Quincy Mine on Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula. The mine and ... to a hoist that whisked the copper-laden rocks up to the surface,” he explained.

Rockhounds scour Lake Superior’s shoreline for these rare banded beauties—from the western reaches of the Keweenaw ... beach days—fossils of all shapes and sizes, lake-tumbled beach glass ...

State, federal, and local leaders celebrate the transformation of a former industrial waste site into a 25-acre eco-friendly ...

In the heart of the Upper Peninsula's Keweenaw Peninsula, the state park is known for its two-mile Lake Superior shoreline.

Spring is the best time to search for Yooperlites and other rocks, according to Pure Michigan, because winter ice moved beach sand ... Grand Marais and in the Keweenaw Peninsula.