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IRONWOOD
DESTINATION
MICHIGAN
GUIDE
IRONWOODCHAMBER.ORG
IRONWOODGO!
Photo: Betsy Wesselhoft
WELCOME to I RON WO OD
Photo: Dirk Wierenga Photo: Dirk Wierenga
I ronwood Michigan offers an enviable quality of small-town life set
within a natural landscape of incomparable beauty and tranquility!
It is a great place to live, and to visit!
In addition to this Guide, you can also learn more about Ironwood
by visiting the Chamber of Commerce website, ironwoodchamber.
org. Here you can find all of our Chamber of Commerce members,
their websites, social media links, special Chamber event pages, and
Our Ironwood Chamber of Commerce Destination Guide serves as weekly area employment openings. This website is also replicated on
a way finder to area sites and events while providing a glimpse of our smartphone app, IronwoodGO (free from Google Play or the App
our community’s human landscape—our arts, enterprises, activities, Store).
and people. If you are a visitor or Ironwood relocator, this Guide
will point you to ways in which you can “find your North” and renew Our website and app also link you to our all-event community
your personal lifestyle center. Whether taking in the unique deep- calendar website, felivelife.org (Fe is the chemical symbol for iron,
blue of our northern sky, watching and listening to the cascade of as Ironwood sits atop the Gogebic Iron Range). This calendar covers
water over our many waterfalls, gathering “yooperlites” on the Lake daily events in both Ironwood’s Gogebic County and in neighboring
Superior shore at Black River Harbor, or visiting our area businesses Iron County, Wisconsin. Both FeLiveLIfe and the Ironwood Chamber
and artisan shops, you will find that Ironwood offers a beautiful and have very active Facebook pages: Facebook.com/IronwoodChamber
low-stress living environment enjoyed by retirees, the vocationally and Facebook.com/FeLiveLife. Follow them! Connect with us and be
active, and young folks just starting out to grow their livelihoods and a part of the Ironwood experience!
families.
IRONWOOD TODAY T wenty-first century Ironwood’s
natural and built environments
are vital elements in our community’s
resurgence. Over the last three
years, Ironwood has been gaining
population, joining an emerging
national relocation trend toward rural
landscapes. Ironwood’s awesome
natural setting and diverse small-town
cultural milieu offers the ideal place
to establish residence and create a
business start-up.
Symbolic of Ironwood’s past, the
carved wooden miners seen at the
left emphasize iron mining’s role
in Ironwood’s 1880 beginnings.
The National Register 1893 Depot
witnesses to the thousands of
immigrants who came here as well
as to the extensive railroad grid that
connected surrounding communities
for almost 100 years.
The train tracks are gone now, and
underneath the quiet blanket of
snow lies the Iron Belle Trail, a paved
10-mile-long walking and biking
trail that heads east to Ramsay, MI.
The Depot Park pavilion is the event
center for our Farmer’s Market,
Festival Ironwood and summer kids
“meet-up and eat-up” daily lunch,
while the lighted Jack Frost Festival
Tree announces wintertime in “big
snow country.” This blending of our
historic heritage with present-day
community life is a signature element
in Ironwood’s socio-economic health,
well-being, and visitor/relocator
attractiveness.
Historic Ironwood Depot
Photo: Tom Kangas
O
BUILDING COMMUNITY
ur town’s entrepreneurial spirit is fostered by
educational opportunity, a health and wellness
focus, an active civic volunteer culture, and supportive
businesses and organizations. Ironwood offers K-12
schooling, Gogebic Community College career
preparation, and, through the outreach of the Gogebic
Range Health Foundation, active event sponsorship and
community involvement.
The city of Ironwood’s Community Development
Department, along with the Chamber of Commerce and
supporting service clubs, have as their common goal the
fostering of a connected and inclusive community—a
safe space where vision, talent, and energy build unity.
Major festivals such as July’s Festival Ironwood, August’s
Emberlight Festival of the Arts, and December’s Jack Frost
Festival are augmented by a host of smaller happenings
throughout the year, such as Downtown Ironwood’s
monthly First Friday, where commerce, art, music, and craft
showcase local skills and talents.
Copper Peak Trail Fest
Parades, races, arts performance, and a diversity of small groups such as
Polar Bear Hockey, Easy Striders Running, Team Trivia, and Mystery Book
clubs all infuse the Ironwood Community with connectivity and pride.
Depot Dash
Cold Iron Team Trivia Night
Jack Frost Parade
ENTERPRISE & GROWTH
Leather & Gift Shop Saint Maud’s makerspace
Contrast Coffee Co. Northwind Natural Foods
Ironwood Plastics
I ronwood is home to several large
manufacturing enterprises, including
Ironwood Plastics (a Berkshire
Airport, allowing excellent business and
visitor connections to these major hubs.
Hathaway company), Burton Electronic Commercial growth can be seen
Manufacturing Services, Waupaca through openings or expansions of
White Rabbit Tasting Room
Foundry, and Jacquart Fabric Products. such local enterprises as Copper Ben’s Place
Jacquart’s made-in-Ironwood Stormy Cup, The White Rabbit Wine Tasting
Kromer caps are sold nation-wide, and Room, Suffolk Street Eatery, Northwind
their factory offers daily tours where Natural Foods Co-op, Lake Effect
visitors can see and follow each of the Books, and Yooper Wreath, together
cap-making steps. Retail shops feature with new regional retailers such as
locally-made products from farm Shoe Sensation, Kwik Trip, Higher Love
produce to interior décor and clothing. Dispensary, and Marshall’s. For both
Our new air service provider, Denver visitors and relocators, the Ironwood
Air, offers daily flights to Chicago and area provides a unique (and growing)
Minneapolis from the Gogebic-Iron array of shopping delights. Copper Cup
Snowriver Mountain Resort
W hile outside Ironwood has skiing, hiking, fishing,
TOGETHER with TALENT
and biking, INSIDE Ironwood has a 100-year
performing arts history of dance, music, and theatre.
With two dance companies, two performing arts
theatres, community choir and band, as well as
numerous individual performers, Ironwood is the
Western Upper Peninsula’s center for the performing
arts.
Founded in 1964, Theatre North is among the three
oldest continuously operating community theatres in
the United States, producing 4 major plays each year,
from Second Samuel and A Streetcar Named Desire
to such musicals as Jesus Christ Superstar and The
Sound of Music.
Encompassing, music, art, craft, and film, Ironwood’s
Emberlight Festival emberlight.org has grown
enormously in a very
short time, thanks to the
founding artistic vision
of Metropolitan Opera
star (and Bessemer
Dance Recital at Historic Ironwood Theatre
native) Miles Mykkanen.
The Festival attracts
Youth and Children’s theatre is part of the Ironwood performers and audiences
tradition, with the stage-struck kids of the Awkward from across the country.
Stage Drama Club performing at the 1928 Historic
Ironwood Theatre.
Music in Miner’s Memorial Park
Theatre North live community theartre
Emberlight Festival Main Stage
F ART FOR ALL
or the visual artist, living in the truly breathtaking
and powerful natural landscape of Lake Superior,
Ottawa National Forest, and area white-water streams
and waterfalls provides limitless inspiration. While
centered at the Downtown Art Place Gallery and
Studios, many artists have country studios as well.
Major exhibits also utilize the Historic Ironwood
Theatre Concourse
and Ironwood’s
Memorial Building.
In Summer, art
moves outside
with the annual
Miner’s Memorial
Heritage Park
Art in the Park
presentations.
Landscape-
integrated art
Throwing pottery at
compositions and Downtown Art Place
themes become a
central element of
the many Miners
Park trails. Art in
the Miner’s Park
is also a featured
element in the
Emberlight Festival
of the Arts, from
July 1st through
August 26th. Many Art in the Miner’s Memorial Park
of the art works will
be in place both
before and after
the Emberlight
Festival, presenting
a great opportunity
to both hike the
trails in the Miner’s
Park and interact
with the art as well.
Woodworking at Saint Maud’s Makerspace
Painting class at Cold Iron Brewry
HISTORY RUNS DEEP
I n Ironwood, logging and iron mining went hand-in-hand, creating a
classic American “boom town” in 1900. The railroads followed, making
easy transport of iron ore and lumber possible. While this massive
almost 20,000 and had a symphony orchestra,theatrical companies,
Carnegie Library, and theaters. The massive 1924 Luther L. Wright
School continues today as Ironwood’s K-12 school, and Gogebic
railroad infrastructure is long gone, the 1893 Chicago and Northwestern Community College, founded in 1927, has a 90-year tradition of offering
Railroad Depot remains, and is the present-day home of the Ironwood excellent post-secondary education.
Historical Society and the Ironwood Chamber of Commerce. Michigan’s
Iron Belle Trail now sits atop the old Soo Line railroad grade--a paved Several of Ironwood’s iconic structures are really “must sees” for every
walking/biking trail that passes over original bridges and through visitor: the 1924 Memorial Building, the 1902 Carnegie Library, the 1928
forests to Ramsay, MI, ten miles east of Ironwood. Ironwood Theatre, and the 1893 C&NW Railroad Depot. Each of these
buildings still remain “working” buildings, and are open for self-guided
At Ironwood’s peak in the 1920’s the city reached a population of tours.
Historic Ironwood Depot ca 1928
Aurora St. downtown Ironwood, MI ca 1954
Pabst Mine, Ironwood, MI ca 1918
Logging in Ironwood, MI ca 1917 Luther Wright High School ca 1924 Winter storm downtown Ironwood, MI ca 1928
Stormy Kromer
Factory
K-12 School
Depot Park
o
Art
Park
pen
As
Iron County
Historical
Museum
Black River
Basin
Photo: Bill Pohlmann
T he Ironwood Chamber of
Commerce and its more than 215
member businesses and organizations
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Chamber IronwoodGO smartphone app
(its FREE!), which also links you to the
invite you to visit Ironwood and felivelife.org community event calendar.
experience first-hand the spectacular
natural environment and outstanding Thanks for reading this guide! It is made
community culture our residents 100% possible by the advertisements
enjoy. Whatever your personal life placed herein by our Chamber
passions—mountain biking, trail hiking, members! Please stop in and patronize
snowshoeing, skiing, golf, crafting, their establishments! When you get
painting, theatre, music-making—the to town, come on over to the Chamber
Ironwood area is gloriously perfect for Depot office and say hi!
their exercise and fulfillment.
Just visiting? Stay connected to us!
Thousands of folks check in each
month to view our Depot webcam
ironwoodchamber.org/webcam and
watch the Iron Belle Trail bikers and
hikers, the Depot Farmers Market,
Festival Ironwood, as well as the
snowmobiles whizzing by in January.
Michael Meyer
Ironwood Chamber Director
This Guide is made possible by funding from the Ironwood Area Chamber of Commerce and its members.
Guide design: Sharp Graphic DesignTHEATRE
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FRESH AIR
unparalleled beauty. For those
who live here it is a home-land that
remains with your spirit forever. For
WIDE OPEN SPACES
visitors, the forests, waterfalls, Lake
Superior beaches, trails, and yes, the
snow and northern lights—all work
together to create a felt space that is
calming and restorative to the mind.
The phrase “find your north” truly
describes what you can experience
here.
Black River National Forest Scenic
Byway (Black River Road) lies just
north of Ironwood, and has five
beautiful waterfalls. There are
paved trails from the road side
parking areas, with Potawatomi
Falls observation landing being
barrier-free. At road’s end is Black
River Harbor, which features a
campground, picnic areas, a boat
landing, and extensive beach areas.
This is the place to see and be with
the great Lake Superior.
Ironwood’s Miners Memorial
Heritage Park fmmhp.com
encompasses many of the former
iron ore mining locations within the
City of Ironwood. Interpretive signs
and works of art tell the story of this
historic landscape as you walk or
bike the extensive non-motorized
trail network. Over 10 miles of newly
crafted mountain biking trails within
the park offer outstanding recreation
for both novice and experienced
riders.
Michigan’s Iron Belle Trail begins
in Ironwood and follows a 10 mile
paved trail to the town of Ramsay—a
path that offers amazing landscape
vistas through forests, over former
railroad bridges, and ending
(currently) at the Keystone Bridge
park in Ramsay, MI. Park your car at
Ironwood’s Depot Park and begin
your hiking and biking adventure on
the Iron Belle Trail.
Photo: Sandy SharpSpring & Summer Spring and summer in the Ironwood
region explode with new life, color,
and wide vistas of water, sky, forest,
and beaches.
Thousand Island Lake
Cisco Chain of Lakes
Photo: Angela Hill
Little Girl’s Point beach Black River waterfall trails
Hiking trails at Porcupine Mtns. Picnic at Little Girls Point Park
Presque Isle River waterfalls Sunset biking at Lake Superior Fishing on a regional lake
Betsy WesselhoftFall & Winter
One of the top 5 places in the United
States to experience Fall color, the
Ironwood area also offers outstanding
“big snow” adventures on ski,
SISU Ski Fest snowshoe, and snowmobile.
Snowmobiling on Groomed Trails North Country Trail
Photo: Dirk Wierenga
Black River Harbor Suspension Bridge Candlelight Snowshoe at
Jacob Valejo UPP Above Photography
Miners Memorial Heritage Park
Winter aurora skies
Jack Frost Parade downtown Ironwood
Photo: DuWayne Kosma Fall color on Iron Belle Trail Little Girls Point/Lake Superior
Photo: Julie Weza MonvilleAnnual Area Festivals and Special Events
The Ironwood area boasts a year-round schedule of community events. From ski racing and fishing tournaments to local community festivals,
both visitors and residents are never at a loss for something to do or see!
For a complete dated listing, go to our community all-event calendar, FeLiveLife.org.
Jan SISU Nordic Ski Festival, Ironwood sisuskifest.com
Jan Snowmobile Olympus, Ironwood ironwoodsnowmobileolympus.com
Jan Pro-Vintage Snowmobile Races, Ironwood felivelife.org
Feb YooperBeiner Snowshoe Race, Ironwood facebook.com/wolverinenordic
Mar Gogebic Lodge Ice Fishing Derby gogebiclodge.com
Mar MUK UP Ski Race, Bessemer facebook.com/teamzskiracing
Mar Inky Lunta Challenge, Ironwood felivelife.org
May Memorial Day Weekend ATV Rally, Hurley, WI hurleywi.com
Plaidurday Ironwood
Apr Hog-a-Thon Fishing Tournament, Bergland, MI lakegogebicfishguide.com
June Ironwood’s First Friday Downtown travelironwood.com
July Art in the Miner’s Park, Ironwood emberlight.org July 4th on Sunday Lake, Wakefield, MI
July Ironwood’s First Friday Downtown travelironwood.com
July Festival Ironwood ironwoodchamber.org
July Emberlight Festival of the Arts, Ironwood emberlight.org
July Iron County Fair, Saxon, WI ironcountywi.com
July Iron County Heritage Festival, Hurley, WI ironcountywi.com
July Bessemer Blast Fourth of July celebration facebook.com/Bessemer
July Wakefield 4th of July Celebration, Wakefield, MI facebook.com
July Wakefield APBA Outboard Nationals felivelife.org
Gogebic County Fair
July Wakefield Gus Macker Tournament facebook.com/wakefieldmacker YooperBeiner Snowshoe race
Aug Porcupine Mtn Music Festival, Silver City, MI porkiesfestival.org
Aug Range Art Association Art Show felivelife.org
Aug Emberlight Festival of the Arts, Ironwood emberlight.org
Aug Old Victoria Craft Fair, Rockland, MI facebook.com/oldvictoria
Aug Gogebic County Fair, Ironwood gogebiccountyfair.com
Aug Paavo Nurmi Marathon, Hurley, WI thepaavonurmimarathon.com
Sept Lake Gogebic Walleye Tournament, Bergland, MI info@lakegogebicarea.com
Sept Bridges & Bluffs ½ Marathon, Ironwood bridgesandbluffs.com First Fridays in Ironwood
Sept Bessemer Pumpkinfest, Bessemer, MI facebook.com/bessemerpfest Sisu Ski Fest
Sept Festival Italiano, Hurley, WI hurleywi.com/festivalpitaliano
Oct First Friday Plaidurday, Ironwood felivelife.org
Nov Jack Frost Festival tree lighting, Ironwood ironwoodchamber.org
Dec Jack Frost Festival – Festival of Lights Parade ironwoodchamber.org
Dec Historic Ironwood Theatre Christmas Show ironwoodtheatre.net
Dec Midwest Snocross Series Racing, Ironwood felivelife.org
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