Ishpeming, MI
Da Yoopers Tourist Trap
An Ishpeming gift-and-rock shop where Yooper souvenirs and Upper Peninsula minerals spill into a roadside museum of homemade inventions, an underground mining display, chainsaw sculptures, giant working machinery and the famously oversized Gus and Big Ernie.
Da Yoopers Tourist Trap combines a legitimate U.P. souvenir and mineral business with a sprawling collection of deliberately ridiculous homemade machinery, sculpture, mining displays and roadside humor.











