Keweenaw
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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…
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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…
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Everyone North of Houghton Lives on an Island. One Bridge Is the Only Way On — and It’s the Heaviest of Its Kind on Earth.
The Keweenaw Waterway makes the northern Keweenaw an island, and the Portage…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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This U.P. Ghost Town Comes Back to Life One Sunday Every July, and Has Since 1907
Central Mine grew into a Cornish copper town of more than 1,200…
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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…
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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…
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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…
