Ring in the New Year with the first ever “Chook” Hat Drop in the state of Michigan. Celebrate with locals and visitors in Houghton at midnight on the Portage River pier.
In 1903 Oliver Mining Company was searching for iron ore and drilled a hole about a thousand foot deep. The hole cuts several steeply dipping porous strata that trap water at higher elevations to the north. The difference in elevation creates the pressure in an artesian well.
U.S. National Forest Service is again permitting Michigan residents to u-cut Christmas trees in national forests including Hiawatha, Ottawa, and Huron-Manistee.