We join Nancy Haun for a quick tour around the Copper Country starting in Houghton, heading down M-26 (West Memorial Drive) toward the Portage Lake Lift Bridge. You can see by the wet pavement, it was a rainy, foggy day, but that didn’t stop this tour.

Nancy’s first stop was for a mysterious looking photo of the Quincy Mine Shaft House shrouded in thick fog. She said the fog was like thick soup when they were passing by here. That fog sure does add an eerie look to this historic mining building.

On to Calumet for the third photo, which Nancy snapped in Aggasiz Park. I couldn’t find much information about this particular building, like when it was built, what the purpose was intended for the building, etc. But the National Park link at the start of this paragraph says the following about the Park: “In the early 1920s, Rudolph Agassiz hired well-known Cambridge, Massachusetts, landscape architect Warren H. Manning to design a park dedicated to his father and former C&H President, Alexander Agassiz”. If you have any further info on this building, please fill us in…

If you’re familiar with the village of Calumet, you’ll recognize 5th Street in this next photo. The fog was still hanging on here and the wet streets give the illusion of being snowcovered with a light dusting. It did snow this day last week, but that was later in the day.

And last, but not least is an old building toward the end of 5th Street, that Nancy said she has wanted to get a photo of every time she’s passed by and she finally did so this day, also finding out that it was a slaughterhouse originally. I have to confess, that I had no clue where this building was, but my curiosity got the best of me and I took a drive to find it. Nancy said it was almost to the end of 5th Street on the right hand side, kiddy-corner from Artis Books. I found it and for further location, it’s set back from the road, in between North End Framing and Gifts and the old Erkkila’s Garage building.

The snow is gradually melting around these parts, but today’s video is too neat not to share anyway. Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula Facebook page recently posted this look at Snowmobiling on Brockway Mountain, courtesy of the Barnes Family. The views give you a great perspective of the sheer drop-off on the top of the mountain there.

Snowmobile Brockway Mountain on the night of a full
moon. You will never see anything more beautiful!

Great pictures. You can certainly see the
attraction of snowmobiling Brockway.

April always seems like the Month of Fog.

That building in Agassiz Park looks like some place you'd buy a ticket to the State Fair or a train ticket.