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Keweenaw National Historical ParkSummer foliage softens the former industrial landscape around the Calumet & Hecla mine captain's office.
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Keweenaw National Historical Park
Directions
Regional map of Michigan's Upper Peninsula with location of Keweenaw National Historical Park.
Map of Lake Superior region.
 

From Lower Michigan
From the Mackinaw Bridge/I-75 take U.S. Highway 2 to M-77 North to M-28 West. Take M-28/U.S. Highway 41 west from Marquette. Follow U.S. Highway 41 to Houghton and then north across the lift bridge into Hancock. The Quincy Unit of the park is located just north of Hancock, Michigan. The Calumet Unit is located approximately 12 miles north along U.S. Highway 41 in Calumet, Michigan.

 

From Green Bay, Wisconsin and points south including Chicago
Take U.S. Highway 141 North through Iron Mountain and Crystal Falls to Michigan Highway 28 East to U.S. Highway 41 North into Houghton and across the lift bridge. The Quincy Unit of the park is located just north of Hancock, Michigan, along U.S. Highway 41. The Calumet Unit is located in and around the Village of Calumet, Michigan, approximately 12 miles north of the Quincy Unit on U.S. Highway 41.

 

From Ironwood,Michigan/Hurley, Wisconsin
Take U.S. Highway 2 East to Michigan Higway 28 East to Michigan Highway 26 North into Houghton, Michigan and across the lift bridge into Hancock. The Quincy Unit of the park is located just north of Hancock, Michigan. The Calumet Unit is located approximately 12 miles north along U.S. Highway 41 in Calumet, Michigan.

Miners pose outside the #5 Tamarack Mine shaft in this 1908 photograph by Adolph F. Isler. Keweenaw NHP Archives.  

Did You Know?
The Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan was home to one of our nation's first mineral rushes. Prospectors seeking copper travelled there in the middle 1840's, a few years before the "49'ers" sought gold out west. The story of this rush is told today at Keweenaw National Historical Park.

Last Updated: February 23, 2007 at 15:06 EST