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Points North is an award-winning podcast about the land, water, and inhabitants of the Great Lakes.

Points North is an award-winning podcast about the land, water, and inhabitants of the Great Lakes.

Through narrative, sound-rich journalism that is deeply rooted in a sense of place, each episode entertains, informs, and surprises listeners everywhere.

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Recent Episodes
  • Emily Ford and Diggins resting in the sun on the Ice Age Trail in Wisconsin. (credit: Emily Ford)
    Presenting The Dirtbag Diaries: Winter Vacation
    Daniel Wanschura
    In 2021, Emily Ford goes on a winter vacation. She doesn’t go to some warm beach location, though. She sets out to thru-hike Wisconsin’s 1,200 mile Ice Age Trail.
  • Tom Farnquist in his home in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. (credit: Maxwell Howard / Points North)
    The Good Thief?
    Maxwell Howard
    Tom Farnquist is in the business of preserving underwater artifacts and displaying them in the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum. The problem is, a lot of those artifacts were technically stolen from the State of Michigan. And one day, the state notices.
  • An artist’s rendering of Traci kayaking through the storm at the point of Tobermory, where Georgian Bay connects to Lake Huron. (credit: Shana Talebpour)
    The Longest Paddle
    Ellie Katz
    After Traci Lynn Martin’s mom died, she knew she couldn’t keep putting off her dream: Becoming the first person to kayak around the Great Lakes in one year.
  • Minnesota is the "Land of 10,000 Lakes", but Wisconsin claims to have 15,000 of them. So, who wins this border battle? (credit: Points North Podcast)
    My Lakes Are Better Than Your Lakes
    Daniel Wanschura
    Minnesota and Wisconsin are bitter rivals at just about everything. So in 2019, when Wisconsin’s secretary of tourism claimed Wisconsin had more lakes than Minnesota, the embers of an age-old debate were stoked. Minnesota is known as the “Land of 10,000 Lakes”, but does Wisconsin really have more?