Chassell - Michigan's Upper Peninsula

<html> <head> <title>Chassell - Michigan's Upper Peninsula</title> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"> <META Pragma: No-Cache> <META name="Pragma" No-Cache> <META Cache-control: No-Cache> <META HTTP-EQUIV="expires" CONTENT="Wed, 26 Feb 1997 08:21:57 GMT"> <META name="description" content="Our profile for visitors to Chassell at the entrance to the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. "> <base href="http://hunts-upguide.com/"> <link href="/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">  <script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-16592122-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 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Over 300 entries, all conveniently located on maps and chosen because we think they are the coolest things to do in the U.P. (No ad tie-ins!) Great choices for restaurants, hikes, shops, adventures, museums, boat trips, waterfalls, vistas, road trips, and much more! To learn more click <A HREF="http://www.hunts-upguide.com/up_travel_map.html">UP MAP GUIDE</a> </td> </tr> </table> <br> <p>  <a target="_top" href="http://www.wunderground.com/US/MI/Chassell.html?bannertypeclick=bigtemptr"> <img src="http://banners.wunderground.com/weathersticker/bigtemptr_both/language/www/US/MI/Chassell.gif" border=0 alt="Click for Chassell, Michigan Forecast" height=94 width=185></a> <br> <img src="images/1x1.gif" width=20 height=3 alt="---"><br>  <center> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </center> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan=5 width="100%" height=9> <img src="images/1x1.gif" width=790 height=9 alt="---"></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="17%">  <table width="100%" cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0> <tr> <td width="100%" valign="top">  <table width="100%" cellpadding=10 cellspacing=0 border=0 bgcolor="#306799"> <tr> <td valign="top" bgcolor="#306799"> <font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="-2"> <b> <a class="sidebar" href="/" target="_top">Home</a><br> <img src="images/1x1.gif" width="85" height="5"><br> <a class="sidebar" href="keweenaw_peninsula.html" target="_top">Back to Keweenaw Peninsula</a> <img src="images/1x1.gif" width="85" height="20"><br> </b> </font> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="100%"> <table width="100%" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=10 bgcolor="#FFE09B"> <tr> <td align="left"> <img src="images/1x1.gif" width=100 height=10 alt="-"><br> <font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="-1"> <center><font color="#C82F2C"><b>CHASSELL<br>POINTS<BR>OF INTEREST</b></font><br> </center> <font color="#263692" size="-2"> <p> <a name="e1116"><b>Sturgeon River Sloughs Natural Area.</b></a> A lookout tower provides a relaxing sweeping view of a former wet pastureland now managed as a stopover point for migrating waterfowl ... <a href="http://hunts-upguide.com/chassell_sturgeon_river_sloughs_natural_area.html"><font color="#C82F2C">more</font></a> <p> <a name="e1117"><b>Einerlei.</b></a> A restful, handsome gift and clothing shop, greenhouse, and garden in a rambling series of indoor and outdoor spaces ... <a href="http://hunts-upguide.com/chassell_einerlei.html"><font color="#C82F2C">more</font></a> <p> <a name="e1118"><b>Chassell Heritage Center.</b></a> This is a truly fine little local history musuem, using memorabilia to tell stories of ancient Native American life and much more recent immigrant life ... <a href="http://hunts-upguide.com/chassell_chassell_heritage_center.html"><font color="#C82F2C">more</font></a> <p> <a name="e1119"><b>Chassell Centennial Park.</b></a> A peaceful view of the water just off the highway from this well-equipped park with swimming beach and peaceful view, chutes-and-ladders playgroun, volleyball and basketball courts, picnic tables and grills ... <a href="http://hunts-upguide.com/chassell_chassell_centennial_park.html"><font color="#C82F2C">more</font></a> <p> <p>   </font> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> <tr> <td>   </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center">  <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> <td valign=top width="1%" bgcolor="#F5F5D5">  <img src="images/1x1.gif" width="9" height=500 alt="|"> </td> <td valign=top width="63%">  <table width="100%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 border=0> <tr> <td valign=top align=center bgcolor="#018650" colspan=2> <center> <img src="images/1x1.gif" width="30" height=8 alt="-"><br> <b><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="-1"><a class="whitelink" href="keweenaw_peninsula.html" target="_top">Region: Keweenaw Peninsula</a></font></b><br> <img src="images/1x1.gif" width="100%" height=3 alt="-"><br> <h1>CHASSELL</h1> <img src="images/1x1.gif" width="30" height=8 alt="-"></center></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="63%">  <table width="100%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=8 border=0> <tr> <td align="left">  <font face="Georgia"> <img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=6 alt="-"><br> <center> <table cellpadding=3 cellspacing=0 border=0 width=360> <tr> <td> <img src="http://hunts-upguide.com/photos/402.gif" width=360 height=280 alt="St. Anne's" border=0> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="-2"> <b>St. Anne's is a handsome introduction to Chassell for motorists heading north.</b> </font> </td> </tr> </table> </center><p> Chassell is the village everyone drives up through if they head up the Keweenaw Peninsula on U.S. 41 from L'Anse and Marquette. First settled by French farmer John Chassell in 1867, it grew into a substantial place in the 1880s because of its location <B>on a railroad</B> and <B>on Pike Bay.</B> <B>Lumber drives</B> all <B>along the Sturgeon River</B> south to Covington and beyond floated logs to booms in Pike Bay, where they waited to be sawn. <B>Over 15 fishing boats</B> were busy during the fall herring run. The <B>Dormer Fish House</B>, active from 1930 to 1968, was busy cleaning, salting, and packing fish. <br><br><B>Chassell's history</B> is well told in words and photos at the <a href="http://hunts-upguide.com/chassell_chassell_heritage_center.html" target="_top">Chassell Heritage Center</a> and <B>online</B> at <a target="_top" href="http://www.chassell.info">www.chassell.info</a> . Scroll way down to "history." This content-rich, user-friendly web site reveals many of Chassell's natural attractions and diversions under "exploring Chassell" and "Park/Recreaton." The site also has maps, Chassell Cemetery and historical records for genealogists. It could be a model for similar towns.<br><br><center> <table cellpadding=3 cellspacing=0 border=0 width=300> <tr> <td> <img src="http://hunts-upguide.com/photos/400.gif" width=300 height=205 alt="Chassell doll shop" border=0> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="-2"> <b>Interesting places like this doll and crafts shop are scattered throughout Chassell's downtown along U.S. 41, the main entrance to Houghton-Hancock and points north in the Keweenaw. </b> </font> </td> </tr> </table> </center><p> Chassell is still known for its strawberry farms, now down to half a dozen. The strawberry story is told in the new permanent exhibit at the <a href="http://hunts-upguide.com/chassell_chassell_heritage_center.html" target="_top">Chassell Heritage Center</a>, "From Lumber Kings to Strawberry Queens." Its lively <B>Strawberry Festival</B>, held the first weekend after the Fourth of July, features tasty strawberry shortcake and a wonderful <B>small-town parade</B> Saturday at 11 a.m. <br><br>Chassell is today a more of a bedroom community with a farming heritage. Its population is about 1,800 - roughly as big as Baraga or L'Anse. The success of <B>The</B> <B><a href="http://hunts-upguide.com/chassell_einerlei.html" target="_top">Einerlei</a></B> gift shop and garden, started in 1975 in one of Chassell's then rundown commercial buildings, has inspired additional antique and crafts shops to occupy some of the town's old commercial buildings. The name, Nancy and Bill Leonard explain on their web site, means "one and the same" in German. "When they opened their store, their philosophy was to have their work and their play 'one and the same.'" Thirty years later, you bump into the results of their steady energy all over town, most noticeably at the history museum and the Friends of Fashion, but also from Bill's long tenure in township government. <br><br>The one-mile, lighted <B>Chassell Classic Cross-Country Ski Trail</B> starts and ends at the parking lot of the <B><a href="http://hunts-upguide.com/chassell_chassell_heritage_center.html" target="_top">Chassell Heritage Center</a></B> in the former school. Trails wind along the wooded hillside, with views of the Portage Waterway.<br><br>The delightful Keweenaw Berry Farm Restaurant and Bakery is not open and is for sale as we go to press. <br clear="all"> <hr> <center> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </center> <hr> <p align="right"><a href="keweenaw_peninsula.html" target="_top">Back to Keweenaw Peninsula</a></p> </font> </td> </tr> </table> </td> <td width="37%" valign="top"> <table width="100%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=8 border=0> <tr> <td height="4" width="37%">  <img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=1 alt="-"></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" align="center" bgcolor="#C7302D" width="37%">  <font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" color="#FFFFFF"> <b> <img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=8 alt="-"><br> <font size="-1"> CHASSELL<br> RESTAURANTS,<br> LODGINGS<br> & CAMPGROUNDS </font> <br><img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=6 alt="-"><br> <font size="-2">These are our choices, not ads.</font><br> <img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=8 alt="-"><br> </b> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign=top bgcolor="#FFE09B" width="37%">  <img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=9 alt="-"><br> <font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"> <center><font size="-1" color="#C82F2C"><b>CHASSELL<br>RESTAURANTS</b></font></center> <br> <font size="-2"> See also: Houghton, Tapiola, Keweenaw Bay, Baraga, <br><img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=8 alt="-"><br> </font> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#CDCCAD" valign="top"> <font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"> <img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=9 alt="-"><br> <center><font size="-1" color="#C82F2C"><b>CHASSELL<br>LODGINGS</b></font></center> <br> <font size="-2"> See also: Keweenaw Bay, Houghton, Hancock, Baraga<br><img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=8 alt="-"><br> <a name="e1122"><b>HAMAR HOUSE BED & BREAKFAST</b></a><br> (906) 523-4670 <br><img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=5 alt="-"><br> This, Chassell's most prominent house, was built in 1903 by Edward Hamar, superintendent of the big lumber company that built up much of Chassell. Now it is a homey, relaxed, family-oriented B&B - the retirement project of people-loving Barbara and Harry Wilson. They came here because of the fishing. The Wilsons are happy to share use of their living room, den, and "music room," where Harry displays his pen-and-ink scenes of rural southern Ohio and Indiana, their former home. Harry also loves playing cribbage with guests. Many repeat guests feel like family. A <B>flexible breakfast</B>, at least continental plus, is served in the dining room. The house sits on a hill above Chassell's main street, with a <B>wooded ravine</B> on one side and neighborhood streets, appealing for walkers and joggers, on another. A <B>side deck</B>, enclosed <B>front porch</B>, and yard are oriented to these varying views. Chassell Bay is only glimpsed. <B>Birds are everywhere</B>, thanks to the location and the Wilsons' many feeders.<br>    The guest rooms, all on the second floor, share a bath and a half. All now have TVs with VCRs and a library of family videos. Rates for two people in 2004 were $64 in summer; winter rates $48 for one, $58 for two. Rooms are surprisingly private. One, with twin beds, has a rear sun porch. Another with a double bed has a side sun porch with a daybed and grand view of the bay and ravine. No air-conditioning. Guests share the Wilsons' phone. No smoking except on enclosed front porch.<br>    The Wilsons love being grandparents and welcome well-behaved children as guests. <br><img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=5 alt="-"><br> <i>Open year-round. 41985 Wilson Memorial Dr./U.S. 41 at Chassell/Painesdale Rd., just south of downtown Chassell. Handicap access: no. Children: $10/extra person, $5 under 12. No pets.</i> <p> </font> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#B6DBA4" valign="top"> <font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"> <img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=9 alt="-"><br> <center><font size="-1" color="#C82F2C"><b>CHASSELL<br>CAMPGROUNDS</b></font></center> <br> <font size="-2"> </font> </font> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan=5 align="center">  <br> <center> <font size="+1" color="#454545" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica">Copyright © 2010 Midwestern Guides</font> </center> </td> </tr> </table> </center> </body> </html>