Visit Keweenaw Tourism Dollars Funneled Into U.P. Trailhead

If you stay in the Upper Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula during snowmobile or ATV adventures, you should be proud to know that some of your money is being recycled into our sport.

The Visit Keweenaw organization announced this week $100,000 worth of grants to local organizations. The money is accumulated through a lodging tax paid by visitors to the area. It is then distributed within the Keweenaw into things that cause people to visit – including snowmobiling.

This year’s recipients, according to a story in the Mining Gazette newspaper, include bike and ski parks, a Finnish American Heritage organization, a land trust, a road commission… AND a big chunk to the Keweenaw Snowmobile & Keweenaw ATV Clubs.

Money For Snowmobiling

The snowmobile and ATV clubs are getting a $20,000 boost to help build out the a trailhead in the city of Calumet, the paper reported.

We’ve ridden out of that trailhead ourselves over the years, and it can fill up or get very crowded in a hurry.

With the money, the trailhead will be expanded and improved – which includes adding more space for trucks and trailers, according to Visit Keweenaw Public Relations and Events Coordinator Jesse Wiederhold. He told the newspaper that the work on the trailhead will make it the largest north of the famous Portage Lake Lift Bridge that separates Hancock and Houghton.

Our kudos to the Visit Keweenaw group for recycling the money into such causes, and to the Mining Gazette for giving it the coverage it deserves.