Awards

Best places to live in rural America 2008

Progressive Farmer

#7 in Midwest

http://www.pfbestplaces.com/default.asp?pageAction=Stats&CountyId=26103

UP Top 50 Vacation Getaways

Disney Family Travel (March 2008)

Mackinac Island #27, U.P. #41

http://www.dailypress.net/page/content.detail/id/502054.html?showlayout=0

Top 200 Towns

Outdoorsman Outdoor Life (March 2008)

Marquette is #7. Only town in Michigan

http://www.outdoorlife.com/article_gallery.jsp?ID=1000019027&page=9

U.P. No. 6 Winter Vacation Destination. (Jan 2008)

Weather.com, GORP.away.com (Division of Orbitz)

http://away.com/tripideas/united-states-families-300792.html

Nation’s top 100 communities for young people (Jan 2008, 2007, 2005)

America’s Promise Alliance –

http://glcyd.org/youthresearch/100bestcommunities.php

Best Art Towns

Author John Villani named Marquette one of America’s 100 Best Art Towns in 2005.

http://www.amazon.com/100-Best-Art-Towns-America/dp/0881506419/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1206622034&sr=8-1

Best places to buy vacation property

Men’s Journal 2006, named the UP one of the best places to buy vacation property.

Bike Magazine Marquette's Lakeshore bikes was Bike Magazine's shop of the week

Ore to Shore Bike Magazine Heavy Petal Tour stop #5 (?) #4 (?)

U.P. Top 10 global summer vacation destinations (2006.)

 Sherman’s Travel named Michigan’s Upper Peninsula http://www.shermanstravel.com/destinations/top_ten/Summer_Destinations

U.P. Midwest Winter Get Aways    Chicago Trib travel section 1/20/08

• Brenda Bedahl - The Lure of the outdoors http://www.chicagotribune.com/travel/chimidwest_winter_outdoors_rc_pjan20,0,3831521.story
• Ann Piccininni - Midwest fun, snow or no snow (Munising ice climbing) www.chicagotribune.com/travel/chi-midwest_winter_events_rc_pmjan20,0,4178715.story
• Alan Solomon's 7 reasons to go (U.P.) http://www.chicagotribune.com/travel/chi-mwt-upperpeninsula-storygallery,1,5114703.storygallery?coll=chi_home_util&ctrack=1&cset=true

CNN/Money.com – August 2008 issue

 Places to Ride Out the Gas Crunch: Marquette

http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2008/moneymag/0807/gallery.bplive_gas_crunch.moneymag/index.html

Place for Singles to Meet Their Match: Marquette (No. 23 on the top 25)

http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2008/moneymag/0807/gallery.bplive_mostsingles.moneymag/