Tag: Upper Peninsula

Heigh-Ho, It’s off to work we go!

.Reading time 10 minutes.

Underground and back in time to the Copper Rush of 1842, before the west coast gold rush exploded, the Chippewa ceded 30,000 square miles of the Upper Peninsula to the U.S. government. Welcome to the Adventure Mining Company of the Keweenaw Peninsula at Adventure Mine, an active copper mining site from 1850-1920. Let the adventure begin. […]

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Honeymoon Road Trip to the U.P.

.Reading time 4 minutes.

We began our honeymoon road trip immediately following the wedding reception with a six hour drive northwest through Chicago to Steven’s Point, Wisconsin with an early wake-up for the last three hour drive to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Along the way we noticed that the trees became taller and more green with almost no billboards or fast food […]

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