Hemingway's Nick Adams stories were set in this country, supposedly on the Big Two Hearted River. Actually the artist in him couldn't pass up the name, but his trout stream was the Fox, still one of the classic trout streams east of the Mississippi. That is why this area has such great mineral wealth. Gold in small amounts is fairly common and you can pan for it on many streams. The whole Yellow Dog Plains area north of Marquette contains known gold bearing sands.
Spectacular rock faces and truly rough and majestic terrain remains.
This a country filled with waterfalls, small streams and lakes with dramatic rock outcroppings and black water lakes, Laurentian Shield stuff. There are muskies and northerns under that dark water that strike a lure with the force of a freighter full of iron ore, and uncountable streams with native brook trout. I've tried to give a feel for what it is like to live here. One can't expect the next area to match the best features of the last one. Each will have its own best features and benefits, and they will be different from the ones you have experienced before.