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Sep 10, 20262 min read

Copper Island Is a Real Island. Finishing It Took Crews More Than a Million Cubic Yards of Earth.

Locals call the top of the Keweenaw "Copper Island." The waterway that cuts it off runs 25 miles. The part anyone actually dug is two and a half.

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A Village of 136 People Built 50 Miles of Trail on Land It Doesn’t Own. Its Silver IMBA Tier Was Retired Last October.

IMBA retired its Gold, Silver and Bronze tiers in October 2025, and Copper Harbor's window to reapply closes next month. The club...

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Aug 11, 20264 min read

The U.S. Built Only Three Steel Dams. One Is in the Keweenaw — and the Wooden Dam It Replaced Outlasted It.

The Redridge Steel Dam is one of only three steel dams ever built in the United States. In 1979 crews cut holes...

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Jul 28, 20264 min read

Two Men From Detroit Bought a Roadside Burger Shack in 1983 and Wintered In It. It’s Now One of the Most Beloved Bakeries in the U.P.

The Jampot monks arrived on the Keweenaw in 1983, moved into an abandoned hamburger stand with no heat or plumbing, and started...

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Jul 28, 20264 min read

Locals Call It Copper Island. One Bridge Is the Only Way On — and It’s the Heaviest of Its Kind on Earth.

A ship canal finished in 1874 cut the northern Keweenaw off from the rest of Michigan, and the Portage Lake Lift Bridge...

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Jul 27, 20263 min read

There’s a 30-Foot Ruler Standing Beside US-41 in the Keweenaw. One Winter, the Snow Nearly Topped It.

The Keweenaw snow thermometer north of Mohawk marks a 390.4-inch winter. The stranger part is how that number is measured, and why...

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Jul 25, 20263 min read

Michigan’s First Rocket to Reach Space Didn’t Launch From Florida. It Launched From the End of a Dirt Road Past Copper Harbor.

From 1964 to 1971, NASA and the University of Michigan fired research rockets off the very tip of the Keweenaw, mostly in...

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Jul 24, 20263 min read

Michigan’s Official Gem Is Found Nowhere on Earth but the U.P., and Its Namesake Island Is Off-Limits

Chlorastrolite, the Isle Royale greenstone, exists only on Isle Royale and the Keweenaw. Collecting on the island is illegal, a senator compared...

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Jul 18, 20264 min read

Copper Harbor’s Giant Pines Were Sold to Loggers. The Neighbors Bought Them Back.

Copper Harbor’s giant white pines were sold to loggers, until a 1970 newspaper column sparked a Save the Pines campaign. Neighbors and...

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Jul 10, 20264 min read

People Were Mining the U.P.’s Copper 7,000 Years Ago, and the 1840s Prospectors Found Their Pits

Native peoples mined the U.P.’s copper as far back as 7,000 years ago, some of the oldest metalworking in the Americas. When...

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Jul 10, 20264 min read

In the U.P., Finnish Families Built the Sauna Before They Built the House

Finnish immigrants in the U.P. often built the sauna before the house and lived in it while they built everything else. Inside...

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Jul 6, 20263 min read

He Started the U.P.’s Copper Rush. Then He Warned Everyone to Stay Away.

The U.P.’s entire copper boom traces back to one man and one report in 1841. What gets left out is that Douglass...

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Jul 2, 20263 min read

There’s a Ski Hill on the Tip of the U.P. So Extreme It Has No Beginner Runs

Mount Bohemia on the tip of the Keweenaw is the Midwest's most extreme ski resort: no grooming, no snowmaking, no beginner runs,...

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The latest Keweenaw story

Copper Island Is a Real Island. Finishing It Took Crews More Than a Million Cubic Yards of Earth.

More Keweenaw stories, newest first

A Village of 136 People Built 50 Miles of Trail on Land It Doesn’t Own. Its Silver IMBA Tier Was Retired Last October.

The U.S. Built Only Three Steel Dams. One Is in the Keweenaw — and the Wooden Dam It Replaced Outlasted It.

Two Men From Detroit Bought a Roadside Burger Shack in 1983 and Wintered In It. It’s Now One of the Most Beloved Bakeries in the U.P.

Locals Call It Copper Island. One Bridge Is the Only Way On — and It’s the Heaviest of Its Kind on Earth.

There’s a 30-Foot Ruler Standing Beside US-41 in the Keweenaw. One Winter, the Snow Nearly Topped It.

Michigan’s First Rocket to Reach Space Didn’t Launch From Florida. It Launched From the End of a Dirt Road Past Copper Harbor.

Michigan’s Official Gem Is Found Nowhere on Earth but the U.P., and Its Namesake Island Is Off-Limits

Copper Harbor’s Giant Pines Were Sold to Loggers. The Neighbors Bought Them Back.

People Were Mining the U.P.’s Copper 7,000 Years Ago, and the 1840s Prospectors Found Their Pits

In the U.P., Finnish Families Built the Sauna Before They Built the House

He Started the U.P.’s Copper Rush. Then He Warned Everyone to Stay Away.

There’s a Ski Hill on the Tip of the U.P. So Extreme It Has No Beginner Runs