Every year the staff of the Keweenaw Mountain Lodge take a vacation. This year the Lodge will be closed from November 16 through December 14, 2026. What this means for …
From Parking Lot to Natural Area: Making Room for Wildlife and Dark Skies at the Lodge
For years, the first thing you saw when you stepped out the front door of the Lodge building was a row of parked cars. This year, that changed. We are …
Quieter at the Turn: Our Signs Come Down on US Hwy 41
If you have driven US Hwy 41 toward Copper Harbor recently, you may have noticed that the last of our roadside signs is gone. In September, we took down the …
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Lighting Improvements: Individual Controls of Street Lights
This week we installed individual “light switches” on each of our dark-sky compliant street lights. This is 28 street lights, which are the Truly Green Solutions Cobrahead RWL G2 model light fixtures …
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New Donation Application Process Implemented
We receive a number of donation requests from organizations and individuals throughout the year. And we are very intentional in who we partner with, which is based upon our values …
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John Mueller, now full time at the Lodge and looking at the 2023 operations
After being the interim general manager at the Lodge since January 2019, John Mueller has now decided to focus full time on the Lodge. He has resigned from his professorship …
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Social Media — Scaled Back the Activity the Last Quarter of 2022
Some of you might have noticed that we have not been as active on social media recently. We have made less than 3 posts in each of the last three …
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Showing the Photos from the 2022 Keweenaw Photo Contest
This past spring we held the a 2022 Keweenaw Photo Contest, with the photos selected to be hung in the cabins, printed on wood from Unrefined Art in Niles, Michigan. …
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Moonlit Lodge – A Beauty [ Photography ]
I had preconceived the image Moon Over the Lodge the morning of the day I took the image on Saturday, March 19, 2022. I was talking with a fellow Lodge …
Keweenaw Alliance Breakfast Talk – September 2021
As part of the Keweenaw Alliance Breakfast in September 2021, John Mueller, owner of KML, was one of the panelist talking about the summer 2021 tourism activities in the Keweenaw. …
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