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Location: Wisconsin | Debating with some friends. I say Hwy 8. |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | Wisconsin starts in Madison and the Northwoods begins when you cross the stress line (Hwy 8) |
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Location: The desert | I thought Madison belonged to Illinois? |
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Location: Lake Country, Wisconsin | highway 8 on 51, highway 70 on 53 |
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Location: Contrarian Island | when I see the T Bird country bridge! ; ) |
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| Pointerpride102 - 12/11/2012 2:27 PM
I thought Madison belonged to Illinois?
We don't want it!
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Location: The desert | esoxaddict - 12/11/2012 2:12 PM
Pointerpride102 - 12/11/2012 2:27 PM
I thought Madison belonged to Illinois?
We don't want it!
Crap. |
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| I had a geography professor who used population evidence to "prove" that Hwy 29 divided "civilization" to the south from "wilderness" up north.
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| with all the IL plates in the parking lot at Wingra and Twin Valley every weekend you'd think you were in IL! lol. |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | BNelson - 12/11/2012 3:01 PM
when I see the T Bird country bridge! ; )
indeed
Hodags own the T-Birds in the GNC ...
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Location: Smith Creek | I voted 8, then realized Pelican is south of 8. Therefore, Worrall made a name for himself fishing "southern" Wisconsin.
Interesting.
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| Statistics - 12/11/2012 3:38 PM
I had a geography professor who used population evidence to "prove" that Hwy 29 divided "civilization" to the south from "wilderness" up north.
I'd agree with you if not for the fact that "civilization" is a lot less civilized than the wilderness. One of my friends asked me a while back "Why on Earth would you want to move way up THERE with all the bears, and bobcats, and coyotes??"
I said "Its safer up there with the bears than with the animals down here who call themselves human. And if bear threatens me out on the woods, I can shoot it and go on about my day."
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Location: Not Where I Want To Be | My stress level seems to get cut in in half when i hang a right on hwy 8 in Monico. |
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Location: Elgin, IL | BNelson - 12/11/2012 3:01 PM
when I see the T Bird country bridge! ; )
Agreed, also. Where it starts for me.
And Madison is another planet. |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | Bears aren't that tough ... and when pressured the lead one usually quits. |
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| jonnysled - 12/11/2012 4:47 PM
Bears aren't that tough ... and when pressured the lead one usually quits.
Nice. lol |
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Location: oswego, il | The muskie season says hwy 10. It can be what ever you want it to be. |
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | Hwy#2 ,.... Up Nort! |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | 64. That's the line between MOST of the agriculture except for potatoes, and the timber. |
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Location: Minnesota | looked at a map looks to me any place north of hwy 2 |
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Location: Wisconsin | 64 is good, but on the western part of the state, 64 is right in line with the Twin Cities and runs through a bunch of farm country. On 51, most don't even notice passing 64 in Merrill. I'd say Hwy 8 because on 51 it drops to 2 lanes, and on the western part of the state many consider driving "up" to St Croix Falls and over on 8 to turtle lake as getting up north. Well, I have had some people in Kenosha tell me that Slinger was getting up north. It was a fun conversation with a couple of people from different parts of the state. |
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| Wisconsin up north begins at wrigley field!
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Location: Sawyer County, WI | Highway 70 gets my vote. |
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| It starts when the first person passes you on 51 and you call them vulgar names for going so fast, which is also about the same time when you can only find country, the Bible channel, and Brewers/Packers on the radio.
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | http://www.uwec.edu/webprojects/geog367/northwoods/meet_the_team.ht... |
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Location: Sawyer County, WI |
The northwoods region as defined by presence of pasty shops ? Really ?
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Location: WI | My uncle says "don't trust anyone south of 29", so I'll go with that since he's been alive longer than I have. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | If it's 8, I live up North. By 150 feet.
If it's 70, we have a place a whole half mile in the Northwoods.
Far as economics go, it's pretty much always been 64. Snowmobiling has traditionally been Hwy 29. Lately it's been Hwy 70.
Ice out, pretty much 64 again.
Far as good old honest WI rednecks, 64 does it pretty well. I know this because I lived in Elcho for 9 years.
Lakes, hwy 64 again.
True definition? Go to Google Earth and look for the timber line. |
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Location: Pelican Lake/Three Lakes Chain | In my section of the world (Langlade Cty.) up north is easily seen every day I drive home from work. Hwy V intersection on Hwy 45 is the mark. That is the end of the ag land and the start of timber. There is even a hill you climb after the intersection proving that you are heading "up north"
This intersection is about 5 miles north of 64 and 20ish miles south of Hwy 8.
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Location: Sawyer County, WI | Good suggestions Steve. It can't really be the northwoods without the woods.
As an aside, has anybody noticed the recent improvement in Google maps resolution ? In addition to the awesome autumn colors in my neck of the woods, I see I left the net in the boat the night before they took the satellite photos...
sworrall - 12/12/2012 8:13 AM
True definition? Go to Google Earth and look for the timber line.
Edited by dfkiii 12/12/2012 9:57 AM
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Location: oswego, il | Aftrr being awake all night pondering my original thought of hwy 10, I am now torn between highways 2 and 11. I just cant be for certain. |
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Location: Elk River, Minnesota | Isn't "up north" the same in Wisconsin as it is in any other state? I know you guys over there are a bit "different", but... 
"up north" anytime you move in the direction of the north pole from where you originally started.
Edited by VMS 12/12/2012 11:45 AM
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Location: Smith Creek | There's some farms just south of Ashland, I'd still consider it "up north"
Wisconsin outdoor writer Richard Yatzek described "Up North" as a state of mind. He referred to Highway 8 as the "noodle line" as everyone north of Highway 8 puts noodles in their chili. Grotesque I know, but that's how people in northern WI do it. |
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| Pointerpride102 - 12/11/2012 3:33 PM
esoxaddict - 12/11/2012 2:12 PM
Pointerpride102 - 12/11/2012 2:27 PM
I thought Madison belonged to Illinois?
We don't want it!
Crap.
All you have to do is look for the uneducated people who wear camo all the time who don't make any money. Usually that starts about 10 miles north of Madison. |
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Location: Smith Creek | Guest - 12/12/2012 2:37 PM
Pointerpride102 - 12/11/2012 3:33 PM
esoxaddict - 12/11/2012 2:12 PM
Pointerpride102 - 12/11/2012 2:27 PM
I thought Madison belonged to Illinois?
We don't want it!
Crap.
All you have to do is look for the uneducated people who wear camo all the time who don't make any money. Usually that starts about 10 miles north of Madison.
We wear hats indoors too. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Guest,
You the same citified idiot who thinks field dressed deer in a cold garage 'smell'?
#*^@ed happy I live up here where a man isn't judged by the price of his patent leather shoes, and speaking of shoes, doesn't wear 'stockings' under em, we wear socks. We even wear socks made from animal fur.
Hats, sometimes, too. But not inside, too warm.
I lived a fair portion of my life in New Mexico. One doesn't place noodles in chili.
That's soup no matter how thick one makes it. |
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| sworrall - 12/12/2012 3:32 PM
Guest,
You the same citified idiot who thinks field dressed deer in a cold garage 'smell'?
#*^@ed happy I live up here where a man isn't judged by the price of his patent leather shoes, and speaking of shoes, doesn't wear 'stockings' under em, we wear socks. We even wear socks made from animal fur.
Hats, sometimes, too. But not inside, too warm.
Sorry Sworrall but I can't even understand you. Did you make it past 7th grade English class? What does citified mean? Just because you sit around drinking pabst beer watching Faux news does not make you a man. Sorry!
BTW- I like everything about northern Wisconsin. Except for the ugly @$$ed women you have up there. Northern Wisconsin where the men are men and the women are men too. |
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| Guest - 12/12/2012 3:43 PM
sworrall - 12/12/2012 3:32 PM
Guest,
You the same citified idiot who thinks field dressed deer in a cold garage 'smell'?
#*^@ed happy I live up here where a man isn't judged by the price of his patent leather shoes, and speaking of shoes, doesn't wear 'stockings' under em, we wear socks. We even wear socks made from animal fur.
Hats, sometimes, too. But not inside, too warm.
Sorry Sworrall but I can't even understand you. Did you make it past 7th grade English class? What does citified mean? Just because you sit around drinking pabst beer watching Faux news does not make you a man. Sorry!
BTW- I like everything about northern Wisconsin. Except for the ugly @$$ed women you have up there. Northern Wisconsin where the men are men and the women are men too.
Cubs fan. Guaranteed. Book him, Danno ... |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | I like Miller Lite and once in a while a Silver Bullet. I watch CBS and PBS News.
Sad. No clue what 'citified' means.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/citified
Any or all of the below:
It's slang for folks who think hamburger comes from McDonalds and chicken from KFC. Never raised a darn thing for food, cleaned a fish, gathered fresh eggs from the hen house, or butchered a deer. Thinks a Prius is the only way to ride, or worse, owns an SUV that's never had mud on the upper door panels. Never been ice fishing, or thinks it's too cold to when it's -20 degrees. Thinks guns are for personal protection or should be banned. Never been in the center of a mountain pass in a snow storm, or sat in a tree in minus 12 waiting for a buck to show himself. Never heard a pack of 'yotes closing in on a kill on a blistering cold winter night or watched a bobcat stalk a grouse from a deer stand.
And so on.
cit·i·fy
[sit-i-fahy] Show IPA
verb (used with object), cit·i·fied, cit·i·fy·ing.
1.
to make into a city; urbanize.
2.
to cause to conform to city habits, fashions, etc.
In your case, perhaps 2?
I personally don't have any ugly women, and although I'm sure there are some here in the North, you need to take a walk around a Milwaukee or Chicago Super Wal Mart on a Friday or Saturday late night before you get all judgmental.
It's not a problem with me if you are citified. Really, I don't care, that's a choice for most and as long as those who are don't look down their noses at us country based folk and us country based folk don't get all C&W on you, we get along pretty well.
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Location: Central WI | Entertaining thread. Years ago I had a girlfriend from Watertown who thought Wautoma was "up north". I vote for highway 8..
Edited by bobtodd 12/12/2012 4:18 PM
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Location: Smith Creek | I bet my "northern" wife is hotter than his. Post up the goods guest. We can have an online vote.
Sure, up north ain't Paris or Madrid, but I got news for ya, Mad Town ain't either. |
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Location: oswego, il | 7th grade was the hardest 4 years of my life. I bet Worrall, Sworrall if you prefer got it the first time around. I think that was the first time he had to use citified in a sentence. Wow now I just did! Progress. |
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Location: Elk River, Minnesota | ToddM - 12/12/2012 4:34 PM
7th grade was the hardest 4 years of my life.
Now THAT's FUNNY right there, no doubt about it!!
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| Given my moniker, I guess I should say Hwy 8, but I think for each of us, "up north" means something a little different. Growing up in the 1960s my uncle had a rustic cabin in the Harrison Hills north of Merrill, on Bass lake. I could not wait for summer and a chance to go "up north". To me, "up north" is a state of mind, not something you can find on a map. |
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Location: milwaukee | sworrall - 12/12/2012 8:13 AM
True definition? Go to Google Earth and look for the timber line.
Amen. As a kid, and more so now, as I travel north I know I've 'arrived' when I see more pine than hardwood and farm field. |
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Location: Minocqua, WI | The infamous and legendary "T-Bird Country" bridge above 51 before entering Hazelhurst. |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | North of 8 - 12/12/2012 7:37 PM
Given my moniker, I guess I should say Hwy 8, but I think for each of us, "up north" means something a little different. Growing up in the 1960s my uncle had a rustic cabin in the Harrison Hills north of Merrill, on Bass lake. I could not wait for summer and a chance to go "up north". To me, "up north" is a state of mind, not something you can find on a map.
Harrison Hills is a really unique area in Northern Wisconsin ... one of my favorite motorcycle loops. i can see where a tradition there would be a great one to have!!
one of my favorite unique "up north" feelings flies in the face of the citified guest. where else in the world could you have friends from 17 to 70 some making their way to the next paycheck and some with a legacy built with millions and not know who is who?? it is the reality where people are just that and pretense doesn't exist. it's the best part of my small town ... especially during the "off-season" when we all suffer because the touristas aren't here to support us ... LOL |
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Location: The desert | Guest - 12/12/2012 2:43 PM
sworrall - 12/12/2012 3:32 PM
Guest,
You the same citified idiot who thinks field dressed deer in a cold garage 'smell'?
#*^@ed happy I live up here where a man isn't judged by the price of his patent leather shoes, and speaking of shoes, doesn't wear 'stockings' under em, we wear socks. We even wear socks made from animal fur.
Hats, sometimes, too. But not inside, too warm.
Sorry Sworrall but I can't even understand you. Did you make it past 7th grade English class? What does citified mean? Just because you sit around drinking pabst beer watching Faux news does not make you a man. Sorry!
BTW- I like everything about northern Wisconsin. Except for the ugly @$$ed women you have up there. Northern Wisconsin where the men are men and the women are men too.
My guess is this guy lives alone, perhaps in his parents basement. Thinks of himself as a ladies man but hasn't been with an actual woman in well over a year. Weekend fun is a threesome with Aunt Jemima and Mrs. Butterworth. |
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Location: north central wisconsin | Hey man, I drink Pabst, with pretty women, and I live right near highway 10.
As a kid growing up, heading to our place in Conover each weekend, we were up north when we stopped below hat rapids to eat a sandwhich, take a leak, and catch a smallie.
Up north is further south, the further east you go. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | That is an absolute fact. |
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| "Up North" starts where you can walk into a bar, sit down, and have a conversation with anyone without wondering if it's going to end out in the parking lot. |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | asphalt poisening ...
maybe something to do with parking lots made of compressed dirt or ice, pine needles and tree roots |
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| I have alot more issues with people when I'm up North then in the cities.... |
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Location: The desert | thescottith - 12/13/2012 11:40 AM
I have alot more issues with people when I'm up North then in the cities....
Maybe it is you.... |
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Location: Smith Creek | Issues with Northerners or Southerners up north?
Any issues with a Northerner can resolved by producing a dog. We Northerners love our canines and will almost immediately trust someone who has a dog. Be prepared to speak at length of your dogs and their habits.
If you don't have a dog than ask the Northerners how rifle season went. |
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| I grew up in Ashland, moved away in 96, I go back multiple times a year, My car, My dads truck and all the neighbors cars have been robbed mulitple times, multiple times up North I have caught people breaking into neighbors garages.
Once in Ashland at my parents the door bell rang, I answered it, Dude at the door, super drunk says...hey you have a big house, I'm sleeping here tonight, I say hell no, slam the door, he tries to open door and starts peeking in the windows....WTF? so here i am with my 10 year old son, having to call the police and load the gun....
Tons of up north stories.......
I've live in Richfield MN, a block out of mpls, Never has someone broke into my car, house, any neighbors. or just knocked on the door...looking for a room.
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Location: Smith Creek | Ashland is a town unto itself, as you probably know. Several factors make it what it is. Not typical. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | My son and daughter in law have lived in Ashland for years. Good fishing, great deer hunting, and they haven't had a single issue far as I know. They DO have a hunting dog. Might be why. |
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| I spent a night in Ashland 20 some years ago when I was in high school, other than that, I know nothing about the place. Out of curiousity and interest, what are the factors that make Ashland "what it is?" |
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| Living in Milwaukee as a kid but every summer when we ran up to Minocqua to the family cabin it was always when when got to Steven's Point--and left 10 to start up 51 north--always smelled more like up north.
But hard to argue with the T-Bird Country sign over the bridge on 51north in HH.
Later when started going up alone it was more like when you turned off 51 north in Minocqua and started up 70 west.
Good thread! |
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Location: Stevens Point, Wi. | Storm Strike - 12/14/2012 9:18 AM
Living in Milwaukee as a kid but every summer when we ran up to Minocqua to the family cabin it was always when when got to Steven's Point--and left 10 to start up 51 north--always smelled more like up north.
But hard to argue with the T-Bird Country sign over the bridge on 51north in HH.
Later when started going up alone it was more like when you turned off 51 north in Minocqua and started up 70 west.
Good thread! Got to love the northwoods smell as you drive past Mosinee with a west wind ! |
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Location: Smith Creek | sconnie - 12/14/2012 9:11 AM
I spent a night in Ashland 20 some years ago when I was in high school, other than that, I know nothing about the place. Out of curiousity and interest, what are the factors that make Ashland "what it is?"
Let me first say I enjoy every second I'm in Ashland, the brewery is top notch, so is the fishing. I've never been burglarized during my many visits.
The town is similar to Superior or Detroit. WW2 ended, and we didn't need the raw materials and explosives and use of the port. |
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| This is a good thread. Interesting to see what different things symbolize to different people.
When I was a little kid growing up in the Milwaukee area, I remember thinking Green Bay was way up north. Aaah, the folly of youth.
Now that I live in central Wisconsin, and am blessed to have a little sumer place in Woodruff, I'd have to say Hwy. 8, 'cuz thats where it goes from 4 lanes to 2, and the pace seems to slow for me.
I feel like I've been "up north" for a while by the time I roll under the T-Bird Country bridge. That bridge does, however, make me think about the cold one who's top I'm gonna be popping about 10 minutes from then...... |
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Location: Roscoe IL | I consider myself entering the Northwoods after the big beef plate at the Pioneer just off hwy 51 at the Westerfield exit. The rest of the way up is gravy..... |
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Location: Brookfield, WI | I believe Norm because he's a good bowler.
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Location: Central WI | ghoti - 12/14/2012 9:42 AM
Got to love the northwoods smell as you drive past Mosinee with a west wind !
That's funny... |
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Location: SE Wisconsin | If I go by how the State is divided for season structure for game fish season(s), then it's HWY 10. If we're talking look and feel, you know, when those "Up North trees" start lining the highway, well for me traveling old 45 North, it's probably Wittenberg. . . . . Although, it sure does feel more "at home" in the Northwoods in Monico (HWY 8). |
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