The Keweenaw Mountain Lodge is a private business. The lodge facilities are for customers, including bathrooms.
To use the bathroom in the Lodge, you must be a customer. If you are not a customer, and you want to use a bathroom in the Lodge, you will need to pay $10.
Use the QR code below to pay for a 1-time access to the bathroom for 1 person ($10).
Or you can use the public bathrooms in Copper Harbor at the Visitor Center. See the map below to understand how to get to the Copper Harbor Visitor Center.
Why do we only allow customers to use the bathroom?
We are a private business in a remote area. We focus on providing great experiences for our customers. We run our own drinking water system and our own septic system. We are not on city water or sewage. So we spend our private resources to ensure that there is quality drinking water for our customers along with a strong septic system. This requires us to direct our resources to both the drinking water system and the septic system to ensure that the systems are in order. We have decided to focus those resources for our customers accordingly (i.e. paying guests — namely our lodging guests). Any one that is not a customer jeopardizes our customers have a great experience. Thus, we require people to be customers to access the bathrooms.
….but I have to go to the bathroom.
There is a community center in Copper Harbor that has public bathrooms which is less than 2 miles away. You can use those facilities to go to the bathroom. Our property taxes help pay for that community center.
What is a customer?
Mariam-Webster defines a customer as a person or organization that buys goods or services from a store or business that day.
What is not a customer?
A customers is not a person that wanted to buy something, follows us on social media, or has bought something in the past (e.g. played golf at the Lodge 20 years ago).
What happens if you use the bathroom when not a customer?
Using the bathroom at the Lodge when not a customer is disrespectful behavior. Being disrespectful goes the values we hold at the Lodge. Thus, disrespectful people will be banned.
