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As a schoolkid growing up in Detroit we were obsessed about the space program. The Michigan tourism folks missed a huge opportunity.
As a Canadian I had to laugh at "secluded wildness". A fairly large Canadian town (100,000 people) is nearby. And in the other direction another smaller town (70,000 people) a bit farther away to the north.
I think that's a perfectly fair description, they didn't say 'remote' they said 'secluded wildness'. And besides Thunder Bay isn't just 'nearby', it's separated by at least 30 miles of Lake Superior, and there's not much in the way of major development on the rest of Keweenaw peninsula. Or put another way I'd consider places on the opposite side of the Cheasapeake to be secluded wildness even tho they are technically…
It may not be Canada-level wilderness, but it's pretty empty -- or "thin". IIRC, I was told that the large Ontonagon County, towards the west end of the UP, has one of the lowest county population densities in the entire country.
I've also been there. I love camping in the U.P., and "discovered" the rocket range about 15 years ago. I didn't drive out there though, I walked. No one I talked to knew what condition the road "out to the very end of the peninsula" was in, so I decided not to risk it. It wasn't a bad walk, really. Good boots, and as mentioned, industrial-strength mosquito spray, are necessary. No one mentioned the old rocket range,…