I enjoyed this. 20 plus years ago, while attending LSSU, some roommates and I were fishing along Sullivan’s Creek, and came across an old cabin along it. We actually stayed in it overnight despite it being decrepit...it was almost like saying to us...”go ahead...I’ve still got it”. One of my most memorable fishing times ever.

My dad, born in ‘28, remembers hunting the UP and ferry boating there before the Mighty Macinaw Bridge.

Ah the good ole days when one could claim land and build a cabin without having to purchase the land, apply for permits to build and pay taxes on it the rest of your life....

I noticed they left one important detail out..In the 1970s the lumber company and Michigan made everyone abandon their camps

Really enjoyed the video. My Grandfather raised his family in the town of Ironwood. My Dad was born in 1920 and had 5 brothers and a sister. Grandpa was a fireman on the Chicago Northwestern Railroad, and in those days Grandpa and the older boys would take the train out into the wilderness where the engineer would drop them off in the middle of nowhere at some creek crossing or place where Grandpa and his buddies had a camp and the family would hunt and fish for a few days and then be picked back up by the train. The benefits of working for the railroad in the old days! Can't imagine that goes on today. Grandpa also bought 80 acres of some old cutover land north of town where they hunted and fished out of an old loggers cabin located there. World War Two ended the family's time up there as all but one of the brothers went down to the Detroit or Ann Arbor area to get high paying jobs at defense plants which were re-arming the U.S. as well as supplying countries like England, though we were not at war yet. All five brothers served in WWII, including my Dad. My Grandparents and their two youngest moved down to Ypsilanti and never returned to Ironwood. Grandpa held on to that land and ended up giving it to my Dad. My Dad died in 2008 and now the land is mine. I've only been up there several times but loved the area. No cabin on the land anymore, though I did find where it used to be and the only thing standing was the old cast Iron stove! I found my Great Grandparents grave sites at the cemetery there in Ironwood near the river. I've lived in Georgia since 1970 when Dad retired from the Army ( he had been drafted in WWII and got out at war's end and returned to Ypsilanti, but he was recalled for Korea and ended up staying in for a career and also served in Vietnam). Having moved all around when I was young and hearing the tales of growing up in Ironwood and knowing we still owned the land, made me feel that Ironwood was my ancestral home. I will never sell the land and I hope my kids will hang on to it. Who knows, maybe one day some descendants of mine will opt to live up there!

I live less than a mile from Lake Superior and a few miles from Pictured Rocks National Lake Shore, blessed to live here. My dad was part owner of a camp on Rock River Road near Chatham but idk the other owners. My uncle and a good friend of mine both have awesome camps in Limestone, near where Ted Nugent does or did a lot of his hunting. Marquette is booming right now!

Thanks SOOOOO much for your hard work and effort! These memories from all these camps deserve to be carried on!

Dam, wish I had known about your book. We were down the road from ya on what Google maps calls lavender corner. We called it purple corners. Our cabin was right there. Used to be a member of Seney social club. Man did we drink. All the boys are long gone. Dale, tic-toc., Bill. And the wives. Thank you all friends.

i like old wilderness documentaries the land looks still innocenly pristine the people too but know it seems many public lands are abused , trash left around camp grounds and public rest areas....lets care folks , pick up ttrash please care because these places belong to everyone, care because you want the next persons to enjoy it...please have integrity of character....

That was very interesting.

Thats a wonderful camp.

Our deer camp is on what we call the old country in Iron River Mi in the 70s the feds made our buddies family pull out there cabin

VERY INTERESTING THANKS FOR SHARING :-)

Thanks for sharing this! I am going to have to order that book!

It’s too bad the DNR has miss managed the deer population and allowed the wolf’s to devastate the herd. The U.P. At one time was a deer hunting heaven, now your lucky to see a deer. So sad.

My uncle had a cabin on Straits Lake in the Hiawatha National Forest

I wonder if the author now's about the rocking chair camp that was started in 1937? There is a great video about it on here

I haven't hear your show very very long time/ how are you doing?

"Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turns the minutes to hours?"

awesome howdoI get THEBOOK?

A metal detector would be interesting around there

Is this the Sodey dear camp?

It is illeagle to build in the national Forest now

Let nature do what it does best Reclaim the land.

For two more abandoned U.P. hunting camps check out my "Scenes From A Deer Camp 2016" vid. Thanks for sharing. KPO

Is there any big foots up there?