Iowa travel writer recommends trip up north

Travel writers often direct Chicago, lower Michigan or Wisconsin travelers to the U.P. for a nearby vacation each summer, but not as many come from Iowa, although that might change according to this article.

Excerpt: Why boil our brains during our mid-July vacation by going south? After reading a blurb about Michigan’s Copper Harbor in the Upper Peninsula in a magazine, I was intrigued to explore this very northern area I knew nothing about.

Driving north then east for a total of 603 miles from Des Moines, the trip can be accomplished by car in one day.

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Source: Des Moines Register
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