Keweenaw National Historical Park

Address:25970 Red Jacket Road
Calumet, Michigan
Tel: (906) 337-3168

Come learn about the history of copper mining in America! Keweenaw National Historical Park was established to commemorate Keweenaw Peninsula's rich history of copper mining. It is only place in the world where huge sources of elemental copper have occurred on the commercial level.

Keweenaw dates back 7,000 years, easily making it the oldest industrial metal mining operation in the western hemisphere. Included in the park are Quincy Mine Host and Underground Tours, Fort Wilkins State Park, Keweenaw County Historical Museum, Houghton County Historical Museum, Seaman Mineral Museum, and Delaware Copper Mine. Visitors will enjoy recreational activities like hiking, canoeing, kayaking, fishing, camping and biking, popular in the summer months, and snowshoeing, cross-country and downhill skiing, ice fishing and snowmobiling in the winter months. During the summer, there are also guided interpretive programs in both the Calumet and Quincy Units, and the park's partners, known as Keweenaw Heritage Sites, offer museums, mine tours, and theatrical performances, too.

To get to Keweenaw National Historical Park, take Lower Michigan's Mackinaw Bridge/I-75 to U.S. Highway 2. Get off at M-77 North and take that to M-28 West/Highway 41 West to Houghton, north over the bridge into Hancock. Portions of the park are located along U.S. Highway 41. See where elemental copper mining began at this extensive and beautiful Historical Park—it'll be a fun, active learning experience for the whole family!