- Best Small Town for Adventure, USA Today 10Best, 2018
- Best in Travel, Lonely Planet, 2017
- 25 Best Places to Travel (#12), Gear Patrol, 2015
- Five-Star Top Performing Entrepreneurial Community, 2015
- Placemaking Award – Third Street Corridor, June, and September 2015
- Best Small Cities in America, Ranked eighth, Nerdwallet, 2015
- Four-Star Top Performing Entrepreneurial Community, 2014
- Michigan Excellence in Technology Award, 2014
- Best Shopping Experience, Lake Superior Magazine, 2014
- Top 5 Places to Retire, CNN/Money Magazine, 2012
- 10 Winter Wonderlands for Retirement, U.S. News and World Report, 2011
- Top 200 Towns for Sportsmen, Outdoor Life Magazine, 2011
- 10 Best Small Cities to Raise a Family, Forbes Magazine, 2010
- Designated "Bicycle Friendly Community" by the League of American Bicyclists, 2010
- Named the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s 2010 Dozen Distinctive Destinations Fan Favorite, 2010
- #1 Place to Bike and Live, Bike Magazine, 2009
- 100 Best Small Art Towns in America, 2004
- Marquette County spans 1,872 square miles
- 83 Miles of shoreline
- Population of 67,215 in the county; 20,570 in the city of Marquette, making it the largest city in the Upper Peninsula (2016 Census)
- Serviced by Sawyer International Airport
- Northern Michigan University
- One of only four Olympic training centers, and the only one located on a college campus (NMU)
- The largest wooden dome stadium in the world, The Superior Dome
- The National Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame and Museum
- Film location for the 1959 movie, Anatomy of a Murder; the best-selling novel was written by Ishpeming defense attorney, turned author, John Voelker (aka Robert Traver) based on the true story of a shooting that took place in a local bar in Big Bay.