26th Annual Picnic!
Saturday, October 24, 2026, from 10:00 am to 2:00 p.m. New outdoor location! DeKoevend Park, 6301 S. University, Centennial, Co 80121. (The park includes free parking and a playground for children!)
NOTE: After 26 years, 2026 may mark the last year for the Colorado Yoopers’ Annual Picnic. Your picnic organizers are growing older, and arranging for the location, purchase and transportation of pasties has become more difficult.
Can you help????? The Yoopers are looking for new, younger leaders who want to ensure that the picnic survives! If you can help, please contact Susan Thornton at susthorn@aol.com. We will be happy to guide you through the steps to success.
What’s a Yooper?
Yoopers: “Those people who live in the Upper Penninsula of Michigan” ~ Wikipedia
Whether you hail from Marquette, Iron River, Iron Mountain, Escanaba, Houghton, Rock or even Drummond Island, you are by the ‘Grace of God’ a ‘Yooper’.
Annual Picnic
Saturday, October 24, 2026, from 10:00 am to 2:00 p.m. New outdoor location! DeKoevend Park, 6301 S. University, Centennial, Co 80121. (The park includes free parking and a playground for children!)
Order frozen Cornish pasties in advance for $11.50 each (donation to aid UP nonprofits). Order online here, or call 303-7989-0844. Order your pasties now! No late orders this year!!!
Please bring a dish to share, your own setup, and items for the gift table!
Meet Other Yoopers!
We hope you enjoy your website and continue to share it with other Yoopers you meet. This site will make it a little easier to stay in touch with each other, find out what’s going on and meet NEW Yoopers living here in Colorado. Join us on Facebook too (details at the bottom of page). Thanks for your support!
Those of us who have moved away from up der in da north probably only have plenty of fond memories of our years growing up there. Perhaps we remember those bitter cold winters complete with snow banks taller than cars or of being chased off of that favorite fishing stream by a cloud of ‘skeeters’ or deer flies. Maybe it was that winter, that was so cold, everybody’s plumbing froze up.
But we also hold on to other memories from the U.P. such as a little slower pace of life, our friends and families back there, that unique cuisine (pasties, smoked fish & squeaky cheese) we miss so much and the beauty of our lakes and woodlands (especially in the fall). We probably shouldn’t forget all those jokes and stories told around hunting camps either!
Those memories we hold so dear to us gives us the right to still call ourselves ‘Yoopers’. May we always be truly grateful of this.
