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    Keweenaw

    National Historical Park Michigan

For Kids

A ranger helps young visitors identify copper in rocks.
A ranger helps young visitors look at the different types of rocks found in the park.
NPS Photo, Dan Johnson.
 

The park offers a FREE Junior Ranger booklet for families to complete together. Upon completion children received an official Junior Ranger Badge. Stop by the Calumet Visitor Center, the Quincy Information Desk or Park Headquarters to pick one up. Be sure to call ahead for current operating hours.

Some of the Keweenaw Heritage Sites may also offer attractions and activities for kids during the summer. Check with the park for the most up-to-date details.

 
Keweenaw National Historical Park junior ranger badge

Junior Ranger Program
Keweenaw National Historical Park has a Junior Ranger book. You can download a copy here (caution, large file - 10MB) or request that a copy be mailed to you. Once you have finished the book, you can bring it with you when you visit the park or mail it in to receive your badge.

 
Image of the WebRanger page.

You may also want to check out the National Park Service WebRanger program for kids who are interested in learning more about national parks online.

More information.

Did You Know?

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

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.