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KEWEENAW BAY
POINTS
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INTEREST
Hanka Homestead. A self-sufficient Finnish farm as it was in 1920, with simple, authentic furnishings. No siding masks the Scandinavian log construction ...
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Region: Keweenaw Peninsula
KEWEENAW BAY
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 | | Highway 41 North | | Few of today's passing motorists on U.S. 41 realize this was once a significant copper processing port. In this historic photo. the stamping plant is viewed from the long shipping dock. | In the 1930s, when U.S. 41 was rerouted as a scenic highway with a bay view, it bypassed the village of Keweenaw Bay up on the bluff. You'll find the village if you turn west and go up the hill where the highway sign says "Community of Keweenaw Bay." There's a new firehouse and a community hall where many plays are performed because it has the only proscenium and stage curtain in Baraga County. Founded as a French farming community, Keweenaw Bay boomed briefly after the Mass Mining Company built its stamp mill here. Copper-rich rock mined at its Mass City mines was hauled 35 miles by rail to be pulverized and turned into copper ingots.
Pilings from a long dock just south of the Michigan Department of Transportation roadside park can still be seen. Thousands of pounds of fish a week used to be shipped to Chicago from here. Many old-timers from Houghton and L'Anse remember coming to dance at the Michigan Ballroom just north of the docks.
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KEWEENAW BAY
RESTAURANTS,
LODGINGS
& CAMPGROUNDS
These are our choices, not ads.
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KEWEENAW BAY
RESTAURANTS
See also: Baraga, L'Anse, Chassell, Houghton.
CARLA'S RESTAURANT
(906) 353-6256
Fresh fish, from-scratch cooking, and a cozy atmosphere with a good Keweenaw Bay view make Carla's an attractive dinner destination, favored by locals. Copperware accents the warm knotty pine walls of this simple restaurant and bar, warm with knotty pine. Locally caught whitefish or trout dinners are $11, char-broiled steaks $10 to $15. Dinners include potato and vegetable, plus soup and salad bar. Sandwiches ($4-$5) are served any time. Desserts are homemade; shortcake with local berries or apples is served in season. There's now outdoor dining on the new deck. Smoking only in the bar and in the new addition. 2004 prices.
Doug and Carla Engle, owners since 1979, like to serve the community, not only here but in their day jobs, he teaching in L'Anse's alternative school, she as a nurse.
On U.S. 41 six miles north of Baraga. Hours: open year-round. From mid-June through August, open 7 days, 4-9 p.m. Bar with limited food service open until 11 p.m. Fall, winter and spring: open Thurs-Sat 4-9, bar with limited food service until 11 p.m. Wheelchair access: dining room, not restrooms. Family-friendly. Full bar.
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KEWEENAW BAY
LODGINGS
See also: Baraga, L'Anse, Chassell, Houghton.
CARLA'S LAKESHORE MOTEL
(906) 353-6256
This charming older roadside motel with 10 small, clean, attractive rooms adjoins the very good Carla's Restaurant and bar. Each room (no higher than $49 for two, in summer some rooms are $60 for four) is individually decorated and overlooks Keweenaw Bay and the Huron Mountains. Rooms have phones (free local calls), TVs with 5 channels, in-room coffee. (A satellite allows for a choice of one extra channel, beamed to every room.) There's a sauna, flowers and gardens, and a small terrace area with outdoor furniture and that grand bay view across the highway. Road noise from passing trucks will bother light sleepers and perhaps others, too. Rooms are gradually being air-conditioned, which will help cover up noise. A beach is accessible across highway; it's sandy some years and other years more rocky. On snowmobile trail. Two beachfront cabins a half mile down the road, not on the highway but off a quiet access road 35' from the shore, rent for $300/week.
On U.S. 41 six miles north of Baraga. Open year-round. Handicap access.: call. Too small for wheelchairs. Children: 12 & under free, $5/extra person. Dogs: $5 extra.
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KEWEENAW BAY
CAMPGROUNDS
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