Why this ride
Lake Superior shoreline, mining heritage and the peninsula's best forest roads. The road: US-41 and M-26. Distance and riding time are estimates from the checkpoints until the road is measured on this page.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Keweenaw Copper Country Loop
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 323 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 4 h 59
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
The recorded total and the leg detail need reconciliation. Inspect the leg notes before using this record for timing or navigation. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Houghton
Houghton sits on the Keweenaw Peninsula, a thumb of land that pokes into Lake Superior so far north that it feels like another country. Here the Portage Canal slices the peninsula in two, and the town and its twin, Hancock, face each other across the water, joined by a double-decked lift bridge whose road deck rises to let boats pass beneath. The twin hillside towns, with their brick storefronts and steep streets, look like an overgrown mining camp, and that is what they were.
2. Calumet
3. Copper Harbor
4. Eagle Harbor
5. Ontonagon
6. Back to Houghton
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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