Home Sweet Houghton

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 [...]

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 [...]

The City of Houghton, Michigan wants your thoughts on what can be done to improve the downtown area – what kind of stores should be added, what other improvements would make it better, what makes you head downtown to do business – or doesn’t.  They’ve packaged it all in a brief survey, and they’re looking [...]

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 [...]

Big news greeted me today when I pulled our weekend edition of the local newspaper, the Daily Mining Gazette, from the mailbox: The Mine Shaft, a bowling/arcade/restaurant/go-kart/mini-golf/etc. complex that shuttered mere months after our arrival, will be back by the end of the summer.
This is fantastic news because, as the new owners of the complex [...]

Image by UpNorth Memories – Donald (Don) Harrison via Flickr

If you had told me a couple of years ago that I would be leaving my very comfortable and happy life in St. Louis and moving to Michigan’s rugged and scenic Upper Peninsula I never would have believed you.  Even less would I have guessed that [...]