Poll Results: What’s Your Favorite Upper Peninsula Town Name?
Aug 7, 2008 | Leave a comment
Christmas is the favorite name of Upper Peninsula towns according to Yooper Steez readers. It is always a favorite among locals and tourists.
In second and third place are Paradise and Gay respectively.
The Upper Peninsula is full of several other interesting names that are familiar elsewhere..
- Boston
- Delaware
- Phoenix
- Florida
If you didn’t get a chance to vote before this poll was posted, feel free to leave a comment below to let us know what your favorite town name is, or to share any other interesting U.P. town names.
You can always find our latest poll here.
Photo courtesy of James M. Phelps
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Aug 8, 2008
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A couple of towns from the eastern end that didn’t make your list: Dafter, where the residents were “dafter” than most; and Detour. I used to wonder why all the road signs for Detour always said “Detour Village,” until I realized that if the signs just said “Detour,” it would be a very popular town indeed.
Aug 11, 2008
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I was thinking the same thing about Detour but then I spent K-8th grade in that town. Also, why is Goetzville pronounced Gatesville? Escanaba? Does that mean something odd in native american that hasn’t been shared with the rest of us?
Spent a long cold rainy weekend in Christmas 3 years ago..cute little town!
Jun 19, 2010
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Mohawk
Dec 8, 2011
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Bumbletown, in the Keweenaw or abouts, population 46 (at least that’s what the sign says).