Recreation is the name of the game during winter in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (U.P.). You’ll find outstanding snowmobiling, skiing (both cross-country and downhill), snowshoeing, ice fishing, ice climbing, and dog sledding.

Known as “Cherryland USA,” Door County is one of the country’s leading producers of Montmorency cherries. Here's a favorite recipe that showcases this fabulous fruit from the historic White Gull Inn in Fish Creek.

The U.S. passport card can be used in place of a passport book when traveling to and from Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Bermuda, by land or sea.

A visit to this Big Cat refuge is like a mini-safari

Love to bird watch but can't get away for a birding trip? Try birding in your own backyard by becoming a participant in NestWatch, a nest monitoring database project sponsored by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Made with farm fresh ingredients and shipped to stores quickly, Blue Bell Ice Cream truly does taste like homemade. Visitors to the company headquarters in Brenham can get a factory tour of operations and top off the tour with a free dip of their favorite flavor.

Shop for comfort, as well as style, when you're shopping for walking and traveling shoes.

For an exciting Great Lakes experience step onboard a Soo Locks Boat Tour. Ride through the locks between Lake Huron and Lake Superior just like the massive freighters that ply the waters of the Great Lakes every day.

Each year along the beaches of St. George Island, in Franklin County, endangered female loggerhead sea turtles, and an occasional leatherback, are driven by their natural instinct to return home again, to lay their cache of 80-100 eggs and start the next generation.

The Great Passion Play at Eureka Springs, has grown to become the largest attended outdoor drama in the United States. This religious stage production depicts the last days of the life of Jesus Christ, his death, and resurrection.