Home Sweet Houghton

It’s sad to say, but summer’s clearly giving way to fall in the Upper Peninsula.  The leaves are starting to turn, the nights are getting cooler, the days noticeably shorter.  Worse than any of that, we just discovered an amazing frozen yogurt stand — on its last day in town until next summer!  
Merry Berry [...]

It’s official, the Mine Shaft and Rock House Grill & Tavern in Houghton are open again, complete with go karts, mini golf and more (from the Web site):

18 state-of-the-art bowling lanes
Over 40 interactive video and prize games
18-hole putting golf course
Go-kart racing on the Huron Creek Speedway
Private party/meeting room
Leading-edge audio/video system, featuring 25 widescreen TVs

Initial [...]

With this post we introduce a new section to Home Sweet Houghton, Quick Bites, in which we’ll offer brief reviews or suggestions on where to go for a good meal in the Keweenaw.  The peninsula is a little short on fine dining establishments, but there are plenty of great places to get a tasty meal [...]

Image via Wikipedia

The days are getting shorter and the leaves are showing signs of turning here and there, but the National Park Service is offering a series of deals at parks around the country to help people get the most out of what remains of the summer.
There’s a rundown of the whole list over at [...]

Postcard of Calumet during mining’s heyday  (via Wikipedia)

A column in the Detroit Free Press has raised a few eyebrows around the Keweenaw Peninsula.  Titled Shades of Detroit in the Keweenaw, it suggests that the Keweenaw is a “miniature Motor City” because the two areas share the visible and infrastructural challenges of communities that were built [...]

If the traffic on this blog is any indication there’s a huge amount of interest around the Keweenaw in the report in June of the planned reopening of the Mine Shaft entertainment complex in Houghton by the end of the summer.  Now it looks like it may only be a matter of days before the [...]