Home Sweet Houghton

“Only in Houghton.”  That’s a phrase you hear a lot around here, often in a good way, or in a quirky way, and thankfully rarely in a bad way.  One of the town’s biggest selling points is its safety (Take a look at the front page of the Daily Mining Gazette in Houghton on any [...]

Still looking for a place to have dinner with your valentine this weekend?  The Rock House in Houghton is offering some dinner specials: In addition to filet mignon there’s a chicken breast stuffed with spinach, artichoke hearts and a blend of cheeses.  If you want to add some surf to that turf, they’ll be [...]

My daughter announced this morning, “The sun never shines in Houghton anymore.”  That’s an exaggeration of course, but it is certainly true that January can be a difficult month on the Keweenaw Peninsula.  The Holiday festivities are over, Michigan Tech’s Winter Carnival is still a month away, and it’s way too early in the year [...]

No sooner did I put up the last post about keeping the Upper Peninsula snowfall in perspective but the whole area, and particularly Houghton-Hancock and the Keweenaw, got hit by a massive blast.  This is a storm that’s getting measured in feet, not inches, and it’s been cause for comment even among the snow-tested locals.  [...]

To the great relief of many, the snow has finally arrived in the Keweenaw.  This is a community that proudly runs on the white stuff half the year, so going all the way through November this year without any snow was at first welcome, but by the end of the month a little worrisome to [...]

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Jazz fans, you’ve now got a place to find great music on your Houghton radio dial.  If you like jazz, then The Other Eric Hall Show on Michigan Tech’s radio station, 91.9 WMTU, is not to be missed.  The show runs on Sunday evenings from 6-8 p.m. and offers a wide variety of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]