When used in Milwaukee, Madison, or Chicago, Up North refers to the rural areas of northern Wisconsin. This is in contrast to folks from Southern Illinois, who simply mean "chicago" when they say "up north". Up North, Outdoors activities are popular and devotion the the Green Bay Packers is religious, as is a hatred of the Minnesota Vikings. Beer (and usually awful beer such as Milwaukee's Best) is consumed like a daily medication. its incredibly easy for a standard middle class family in Chicago or Milwaukee to own a cottage Up North and have vacations there -- Land is cheap and the winters are brutal. Wisconsinites and Chicagoans simply refer to Michigan's upper Peninsula as "the U.P." and not as Up North. In this author's opinion, Up North is a neat place to visit and chill out and have fun basically doing nothing. Its weridly awesome shooting bottles with rifles, having huge bonfires, and you can by half-sticks of dynamite from "the indians" for a few bucks. there's one sherrif for an entire county so all sorts of debauchery happens up north.

The culture up north is north woods culture or up north culture, or at least thats what its called. Basically, its hicks. Up North is, all things considered, a complete cultural backwater. Door County is different, sitting on Wisconsin's Door Peninsula the place is super touristy and crammed with yuppies who think they're roughing it because they have a rustic cottage.

Wisconsin Dell's is a little town thats basically a series of waterparks, along with hotels that also have lots of waterpark type ammenities and tons of tourist trap type spots. the Dells is never really referred to as Up North, but simply The Dells. Mostly nauseating, trips to the dells are usually only worth it if its a day trip to Noah's Ark, which is a pretty decent waterpark. Suburban Yuppies and rural hicks are convinced that the dells are the shit.

in jail (comes from hip-hop music).
The jail doesn't have to actually be up north, it's just a saying.

see also Northwoods. Everything from Green Bay and beyond in the amazing state of Wisconsin. bountiful in lakes, liquors, rednecks and good times. Up North is the only place to be if you're going to be somewhere.

The North of England. Where people are friendly and actually say hello to eachother in the street. Unlike the South were if you say hello to anyone you get knifed.
The air is breathable up North with no smog drifting up from the South.

what people in the midwest call going on vaction mainly becasue most of them go up to canada or up by the northern border

The north of England. Anywhere from Northumbria south to Derbyshire. Home to a bunch of inbred mutants, and the League Of Gentlemen. Wierd people.

The upper peninsula of Michigan.

North of Yonkers

1. In Michigan, anything North of Flint. Ranges from Da Yoop to Grand Rapids.
2. Any area in Michigan that cannot be described as being Detroit