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A handful of people sit an icy lake ice fishing
Posted inOutdoors Life

12 items to add to your Michigan winter bucket list

Avatar photo by Laura Herberg October 29, 2025October 31, 2025

Looking for inspiration as we head into the colder months? We’ve got you covered with a dozen winter bucket list items that range from trying out dog sledding to racing a cardboard sled

A flier for the October Bridge Michigan Lunch Break eent
Posted inEvents

Bridge Lunch Break to discuss new winter bucket list

Avatar photo by Laura Herberg October 16, 2025October 16, 2025

At the Oct. 29 event, Bridge’s Outdoors Life reporter will reveal our winter bucket list and readers will explain some of the items they submitted.

A man climbs a thick sheet of ice that's cascading down a rock face
Posted inOutdoors Life

Winter lovers, help us put together Michigan’s coolest bucket list

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Kathy Kieliszewski and Laura Herberg October 1, 2025October 15, 2025

Bridge wants your suggestions for the Winter Dreaming Michigan Bucket List.

People canoeing in Grayling, Mich.
Posted inOutdoors Life

Quiz: What Michigan Dreaming Bucket List items have you done?

Avatar photo by Kathy Kieliszewski August 29, 2025August 29, 2025

Bridge asked readers to help us create the ultimate Michigan bucket list — now take our quiz to see how many adventures you’ve completed.

A packed crowd cheers
Posted inOutdoors Life

Listen: We checked cheering all night at Au Sable canoe race off our bucket list

Avatar photo by Laura Herberg August 20, 2025August 22, 2025

Cheering for the Au Sable River Canoe Marathon is billed as the toughest spectator sport in America. Kane Madsen has participated for the last 25 years. This year, Bridge Michigan followed along as he stayed up all night.

A pilot sits in the pilot's seat of a plane flying over islands in Lake Superior
Posted inOutdoors Life

Michigan Dreaming Bucket List: Epic views, weather on Isle Royale seaplane

Avatar photo by Kelly House August 18, 2025August 20, 2025

Taking one of the small planes to the remote Lake Superior island is No. 2 on the reader-voted bucket list. Taking off and landing from water is a thrill. Delays caused by the region’s notoriously unpredictable weather? Not so much.

A man and a woman steer an old-fashioned sailing ship
Posted inOutdoors Life

Michigan Dreaming Bucket List: Taking the wheel on a tall ship in Traverse City

Avatar photo by Laura Herberg August 8, 2025August 13, 2025

Manitou is one of a handful of traditional sailing ships that offer cruises in Michigan. Bridge Michigan hopped aboard to check off No. 3 on the reader-voted summer bucket list.

A woman stands on the stones at the base of a sign in the middle of a forest
Posted inOutdoors Life

Peeing your pants, other lessons from chasing a Michigan summer bucket list

Avatar photo by Laura Herberg August 6, 2025August 6, 2025

Bridge Michigan gave Outdoors Life reporter Laura Herberg the task of a lifetime: Cross things off a bucket list all summer. Here’s what she’s taken away so far.

Posted inOutdoors Life

Father-son duo joins 228 paddlers in epic 120-mile Au Sable River race

Avatar photo by Laura Herberg and Josh Boland July 27, 2025August 20, 2025

This year’s Au Sable River Canoe Marathon featured a record 230 paddlers from 21 states and four countries racing overnight from Grayling to Oscoda.

Posted inOutdoors Life

Michigan Dreaming Bucket List: UP bakery run by monks offers pastries, prayers

Avatar photo by Laura Herberg July 25, 2025August 20, 2025

Customers come from all over to visit the Jampot, a tiny bakery on a monastery way up on a remote Michigan peninsula.

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