Upper Peninsula of Michigan

The Upper Peninsula of Michigan (also known as Upper Michigan or colloquially the U.P. or Yoop) is the northern and more elevated of the two major landmasses that make up the U.S. state of Michigan; it is separated from the Lower Peninsula by the Straits of Mackinac. It is bounded primarily by Lake Superior to the north, separated from the Canadian province of Ontario at the east end by the St.