Living in Michigan's Upper Peninsula | The People Who Keep America's Snowiest Corner Alive | 4K

There is a bridge in northern Michigan where, if you are too scared to drive across, a worker will drive your car for you. On the other side lives a part of America most Americans have never seen: almost a third of Michigan's land, and only about three percent of its people. In the worst winter on record, one town got 390 inches of snow. So who keeps this place running, and why does anyone choose to live here? In this 4K documentary we spend one winter in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, from the first storm in October to the first ship in spring: the Mackinac Bridge, the Gales of November and the Edmund Fitzgerald, the plow drivers of the Keweenaw, the Soo Locks, Mackinac Island and its ice bridge marked with old Christmas trees, the ice curtains of Munising, the iron mines, the loggers, Copper Country and Isle Royale. 🔔 Subscribe for a new 4K documentary about life at the edge of the North every week: https://www.youtube.com/@HomewardAtlas?sub_confirmation=1 CHAPTERS 0:00 The Bridge You Don't Have to Drive 2:46 October: The Mackinac Bridge 4:47 Yoopers 6:37 The Gales of November 8:57 The Last Runs 10:48 Getting Ready 12:52 December: The Plow Drivers 15:14 The Winter Carnival 16:52 The Trails 18:38 Tahquamenon Falls 20:25 January: The Soo Locks 23:25 Mackinac Island 24:47 The Ice Bridge 26:18 The Ice Curtains 28:08 February: The Iron Mines 30:04 The UP200 31:45 The Loggers 33:40 Copper Country 36:31 Copper Harbor 38:01 Isle Royale 40:11 March: The Snow Record 41:46 New Yoopers 43:29 The Snow Paradox 45:35 April: The Icebreakers 47:28 May: The Thaw 49:15 The Bridge ▶ Watch next Living in Alaska, the land America bought for 2 cents an acre → https://youtu.be/RozC9BNMG5g Living in the Northwest Territories, where the roads are made of ice → https://youtu.be/iTugCeRcmpE Living in Newfoundland, where North America ends → https://youtu.be/N2C8mSRBFYk 📺 Life in America's Coldest Places (playlist): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLclb97bfzEbA 📺 All Homeward Atlas documentaries: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHcgpgQQJZo4 Footage: Adobe Stock, Storyblocks (licensed). Music: Epidemic Sound. Maps: Natural Earth. Script, research and narration by Homeward Atlas. Some shots show similar landscapes and towns in the region and are used for illustration. #UpperPeninsula #Michigan #Yoopers #LakeSuperior #LifeInAmerica #4KDocumentary