[ Nature Focused ]
Elevating and adding another dimension to the Keweenaw,
while living in and breathing the natural world.
Being nature-focused is a fun.joyous.adventuresome responsibility.
We don’t measure success by the number of cars
in the parking lot nor the # of people that visit.
We focus on creating great experiences and
providing those great experiences to our target market.
[ Getting people closer to nature; a breath of fresh air ]
We are a privately-owned four-season historic resort at the top of the Keweenaw — a lodging establishment focused on outdoor activities, rustic worldly food, and education for our cabin guests. We work to marry history with the future to get to a vibrant and progressive present, and limit the amount of people that are on property in order to improve the guest experience.
[ Keweenaw — pronounced ‘key-wah-naw‘ ]
The Keweenaw Mountain Lodge was built under the Civil Works Administration (CWA) and Works Progress Administration (WPA) programs, established in 1934, when FDR was the president of the United States and the country was going through the great depression. As of 1980, the Lodge is on the National Register of Historic Places, and as of 2018, is privately-owned (sold by Keweenaw County to pay off outstanding debt owed to two governmental agencies). [ Learn more about the history of the Lodge | Historical Timeline ]
We cater to individuals that want to get closer to nature being that we are located in a wilderness environment [ see why we exist ]. Individuals that enjoy their experiences at the Lodge are individuals that tend to value the history of the lodge and want to see it move forward, outdoor enthusiasts, and culinary enthusiasts. These individuals tend to want to get closer to nature, and also understand the Lodge team core values, and why the Lodge team works to lead by these values. This increases the probability that lodging guests and Lodge team members will have a delightful experience when marrying history with the future to get to a vibrant and progressive present.
The Lodge is a lodging establishment that consists of historic and rustic log cabins. To support the cabin guests, we provide access outdoor activities, dining, an education center, an international dark sky park, a nature sanctuary, and a wonderful team.
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Recent Press Coverage
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National Wildlife Federation
Why Neglecting the Great Northwoods Threatens Michigan’s Businesses
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Travel & Leisure | Katherine Lawless
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Mining Journal | Annie Lippert
Dark Sky Festival returns to Copper Harbor — Speaking lineup announced
B Corp
The Lodge is a certified B Corp™, which means we are a business as a force of good. B Corps™ have been building a movement since the early 2000s. No company is perfect. However, we work hard to improve, year over year — the spirit of continuous improvement. It takes a lot for an organization to make a positive impact on the world. Countless actions. Constant effort. Real changes. Real measurement. We are committed to doing these things every day.
[ Learn more about what makes us a B Corp ]
Sustainability
The Lodge has existed in its wilderness environment at the top of the Keweenaw since the 1930s. To be able to continue to exist vibrantly going forward, we focus on sustainability and fostering and living our values. This entails being sustainable in organizational sustainability, environmental sustainability, and financial sustainability when hosting visitors that are visiting the area (i.e. a sustainable tourism focus).
[ Learn more about our Sustainability Practices | Partners and Friends of the Lodge ]
Special Projects
We are continually working on projects at the Lodge. These projects allow us to stay fresh as a team and continue to improve and move into the future at the top of the Keweenaw. If we are successful in marrying history with the future, we will be able to live in a vibrant and progressive present. To keep people up to date on what we are doing (and what we have done), we provide information on these projects.
Team
The Lodge is run by a team of individuals that are focused on achieving the goals of the organization, fostering the property, and making shared vision a reality.
[ Learn more about the Team | Core Values | Benefits | View Employment Opportunities ]
Brand Guide – Media Kit
At the Keweenaw Mountain Lodge we work to have a unify voice and image. As such, we have created a brand guide and provided our media kit online to help us and others ensure that we are consistent in our activities.
We do not try to sale our services, but rather provide information. Providing information allows people to self-select in or self-select out. Information is provided via this website and via our media kit / brand guide.
[ View Media Kit – Brand Guide ]
Donations
If you are inquiring about a donation, please see the KML Donation Application.
Owner, Keweenaw Resort, LLC
Keweenaw Resort, LLC was setup in August 2018 for the purchase of the Keweenaw Mountain Lodge, when it was bought off auction from the Keweenaw County (September 5, 2018).
Important Note to those Individuals that feel entitled to the Lodge: As mentioned above on this page, we are a private business (since 2018), focused on our target market, and make decisions based upon our values to be representative of being a B Corp. We respect the history of the Lodge; however, we do not live in the past. We look to the future to have a vibrant and progressive present (marrying history with the future). Non-cabin guests that feel they are entitled to access to the Lodge facilities because of historical activities that associate them with the Lodge, those individuals that do not understand how to respect privately-owned property, those individuals that do not adhere to the rules of the Lodge, and/or those individuals that try to hang on to the past, will not enjoy our services and environment (i.e. you will be disappointed). We no longer will tolerate such individuals at the Lodge as it creates a conflicting environment for staff and our cabin guests who love the Lodge and where it is headed (vision, why we exist). And we will not respond to those individuals that then try to bully us and influence others (in person and online) with selfish and retrospective bias, and sometimes false, comments about the Lodge and the Lodge team members. Life is too short to deal with such situations and short-mindedness caused by such individuals. We hope, and trust, that those individuals are aware of their behavior and will begin acting in a respectful manner towards others (one of our values we live by). In doing so, we hope and trust that those individuals will find other areas in the Keweenaw which will appeal to them. There are many wonderful places in the Keweenaw that one can enjoy.
The Lodge was at risk of closing in 2017-2018, and was put up for sale. Anyone had the opportunity to purchase the Lodge on the market in 2017 and 2018, before being up for auction during the summer of 2018. So any critic of where the Lodge is going should heed the following from Theodore Roosevelt:
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
And “Here’s to the crazy ones…The ones who see things differently….You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things….And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” — Apple, 1997, Think Different ad campaign. We think different, by marrying history with the future, in order to get people closer to nature. We do not live in the past. And thus, we focus on change for the better by being Nature Focused.
[ Teddy Roosevelt image by Adam Cuerden. This image is available from the United States Library of Congress’s Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID ppmsca.35645. ]
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