The Upper Peninsula does not need a ranked list of overlooks. It needs one road you are willing to drive slowly, with a lake on one side and enough daylight to stop without a plan.
Pick a two-lane that already goes where you are going. In early October that often means a Superior shore road or an inland stretch where the maples thicken off the highway. Leave the four-lane when the trees close in. The detour earns itself if it is still the way to your town, not a spur you must retrace for an hour.
Stop when the water opens, or when a stand of maples is actually beside the road, not at every brown sign. Eat in the first town that has a counter, not the town a list told you to prefer. This piece will not name the counter. Turn around while you can still see the road. October days up here end before the itinerary does.
Color is the excuse. The reporting is whether the town at the end of the road still has a place to sit down in October, after the obvious weekend and before the snow. A road that is beautiful and dumps you in a closed town at dusk was only a drive. A road that ends in a lit main street was a detour worth taking.
One road, one town, one turnaround. The rest of the peninsula will still be there. That is the point of refusing the list.