Cool places in the Keweenaw

Shops

• Suomi's is the go-to breakfast food (54 Huron St, Houghton, MI 49931)

• Roy's is the go-to pasties (305 W Lakeshore Dr, Houghton, MI 49931)

• Econo Foods > Walmart > Pat's Foods & Festival Foods.

Note
Jim's is a good place for quick food if you don't have a car. Erickson's Feed and Seed exists, but it's not that great.

• Bread Loafers Bakery has amazing breads (787 Market St, Hancock, MI 49930)

• Towns to shop in:
  • Calumet, MI. A good shopping area for your mom. It's got a lot of history too. Good weekend visit.
  • Marquette, MI. It has all the good food.

• Schmidt's sells wings on Thursday for cheap. (100 Canal Rd, Houghton, MI 49931)

Important
Get to Schmidt's before 8pm or you'll wait an hour for your wings.

• Nutini's does trivia on Thursday at 8pm (or sometimes 9pm). (321 Quincy St, Hancock, MI)

Note
The place hasn't been renovated since the 70s, but if you win a round you get a $10 waiver for food. Pro tip: you won't win, people are good at trivia, but it's a fun time nonetheless.

Outdoors

I have to assume you have Adam's Adventure guide. And if you don't, you're probably not part of Outdoor 'Venture Crew, the superior camping club in Michigan Tech.

• Porcupine mountains and cliff drive are top tier.
  • Drive past walmart and keep going until the road ends.
• Breaker's is a nice place and there will be a lot of people there on O-week.
  • Drive past Schmidt's and keep going until the roads ends.
• Gay beach is a place, but it's pretty shitty outside of the novelty saying you've been to Gay beach.
  • The locals there don't like university students because they made too many jokes about Gay.
• Ask around for the following waterfalls
  • Douglass-Houghton falls
  • Hungarian falls
  • Tire swing
  • (outside Keweenaw) Canyon falls
  • (outside Keweenaw) O-Kun-De-Kun falls
  • (outside Keweenaw) Paul's falls (bring boots)

Activities

• Jampot is near Eagle River and sells really good jam. It's a must visit. They close once the harvest is done.

• Quincy Mine tour is actually worth the money to do it.

• In the winter, there is an outdoor hockey rink in South Range (this is the most well-kept). There are 2 outdoor rinks in Houghton. There is 1 in Chassell.

• There's a Houghton farmer's market (currently Tues. 4pm-6pm), Hancock farmer's market (currently Sat. [I don't know the hours]), and Calumet farmer's market ([I don't know the times]).

• Copper Dog 150 is a sled-dog race in Calumet.

• Northern Lights (MTU's page gives really good tips (archived))
  • Brockway in Copper Harbor is the best place.
  • Breaker's is fine, but not ideal.
  • Tip: Use long exposure to get a more green northern lights picture.

• The Rosza hosts a lot of good festivals. I recommend the Nutcracker.

• Film board movies are always a good weekend's activity if you don't want to go anywhere.