It looks like the Delta and Schoolcraft county areas have as much of a smog problem as you'd expect in some cities. But it's not the result of local manufacturing or industry—it's actually generated farther south, and drifts up to the U.P.
Excerpt: Only about 8,000 people live in Schoolcraft County on the northern shores of Lake Michigan. But the bucolic character of this Upper Peninsula county, like nearby Door County in Wisconsin, belies a big-city smog problem.
According to a recent report by the American Lung Association, Schoolcraft and other rural lakeside counties have some of the worst air pollution in the region as ozone drifts northward from the Milwaukee and Chicago metropolitan areas.
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Source: Milwaukee Magazine
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