Home Sweet Houghton

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 [...]

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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 [...]

Sunday’s Detroit Free Press has a great article on Isle Royale, Michigan’s only national park and one of the least-visited parks in the entire system.  The Free Press’s travel writer, Ellen Creager, spent a couple of days on this remote island, something that apparently only about 14,000 people do every year.  I’m actually a little [...]

Houghton and the Keweenaw Peninsula have a reputation for being a winter paradise, but that shouldn’t be taken to mean that things slow down in the summer.  It seems that just as the warm weather arrives the outdoor festivals kick in: there are two this weekend alone, and that doesn’t include the huge Bridgefest shindig [...]