Explore the U.P. on its own terms with locals as your guides.

U.P. Dream Days is a collaborative guidebook to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula featuring deep local knowledge from a farmer, a community organizer, a wildlife researcher, a writer, a chef, a field recordist, an educator, a sunrise evangelist, and the 2023 Lilac Queen of Mackinac Island.

U.P. Dream Days also includes

  • One road trip bingo card

  • Five dream day diary pages

  • Ten scenic walks and hikes in and around Marquette

  • Eleven carefully curated itineraries

  • Twenty-one playful and practical maps

  • Plus insights into watershed thinking, rural organizing, deep listening, wild food foraging, and making a life in the Northwoods

Purchase a copy online at Close Circle, or in Marquette at U.P. Supply Co. and the Marquette Food Co-op.

 

Events

MINNEAPOLIS, MN: Friday, June 19th, 6:30-7:30 pm: Reading/road trip advice/chitchat/cookie potluck at Transmission (2521 27th Ave. S.).

MARQUETTE, MI: Friday, June 26th, 6:30-7:30 pm: Join many of the folks who made the book for a book release party and cookie potluck at U.P. Supply Co. (221 W. Washington St.) Chatham correspondent Olivia Kingery, illustrator Emily Lanctot, and road trip aficionado Bugsy Sailor will all be there. It’s gonna be a fun night.

Check @thestateofsuperior on Instagram for more info

 

Bonus dream days

Get additional illustrated itineraries designed to tuck neatly into your book copy—when you sign up for my very occasional mailing list.

 

Production Team

U.P. Dream Days was written by Breesa Culver. It is full of illustrations by Alissa Beddow and Emily Lanctot. Alissa also designed the book. It was printed and bound in Hillsboro, Oregon by Janey Greenlees’s crack team at AnchorPointe Graphics.

Get in touch

Notice something in the book that needs updating? Have some constructive feedback? Wanna tell me your dream day (I’d love to hear it)? Or place a wholesale order? Here’s where you can do that: