Iron Mountain sounds like a name borrowed from a fantasy novel populated with elves and titans and dragons. But Iron Mountain, Michigan, is a real place. It lies just across the Menominee River, which marks the state line between Wisconsin and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (or UP). Instead of mythical beings, Iron Mountain is populated withContinue reading “TimberStone Golf Course at Pine Mountain Ski & Golf Resort: Gateway to the UP”
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Greywalls in Marquette, Michigan: Nothing like you’ve ever seen
Lake Superior is so large and deep that it could contain all of the other Great Lakes plus three more the size of Lake Eerie. As immortalized in the classic Gordon Lightfoot song, “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” Lake Superior can be unforgiving, with 100-foot walls of icy gray water pounding ships and shoreContinue reading “Greywalls in Marquette, Michigan: Nothing like you’ve ever seen“
Tee UP: Island Resort and Casino’s Sweetgrass and Sage Run Golf Courses
Michigan’s Upper Peninsula – known as The UP – is thought of as a dense wilderness inhabited by more black bears, gray wolves, and white-tailed deer than people. There’s a reason for this: there are actually far more bears, wolves, and deer than people in the UP. So naturally, the UP is a paradise forContinue reading “Tee UP: Island Resort and Casino’s Sweetgrass and Sage Run Golf Courses“
Island Resort and Casino is a Sure Bet for Golf in Michigan’s UP
“Si quaeris peninsulam amoenam circum spice” is Michigan’s state motto. If you don’t happen to read Latin, the English translation is, “If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look about you.” And a more apt state motto you will not find. No matter where you are standing in Michigan, you’re on a peninsula. The lower peninsulaContinue reading “Island Resort and Casino is a Sure Bet for Golf in Michigan’s UP”
Stoatin Brae at Gull Lake View Resort in Augusta, Michigan: One of the best in the nation
The year was 1963. Darl Scott, the golf course superintendent at Gull Lake Country Club in Kalamazoo, Michigan, decided to build his own public access course, the West Course at what would grow to become Gull Lake View Resort. Over the ensuing decade, the Scott family would build their East Course, followed by the StonehedgeContinue reading “Stoatin Brae at Gull Lake View Resort in Augusta, Michigan: One of the best in the nation”
How Golf Can Save a City: Harbor Shores in Benton Harbor Michigan
The idyllic Lake Michigan shoreline town of Benton Harbor, Michigan, became a major industrial site during WWII, when hometown Whirlpool and other manufacturers were enlisted by FDR to make parts for fighter planes. In the 1950s and 1960s, these same companies produced many of the home appliances and auto parts that fueled America’s post-war boom.Continue reading “How Golf Can Save a City: Harbor Shores in Benton Harbor Michigan”
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