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 dodgeNburn74
  
Location: Madison, WI
 |  | Iron Mountain, Kingsford, Norway Michigan
< on 11/21/2010 9:43 PM >
|  | | | I am going up to da UP eh!
I will be in The Iron Mountain area visiting family for Thanksgiving. I am looking for some places to explore in or near Dickinson County. Any ideas, suggestions, comments, etc. would be helpful and appreciated!
message me or post.
By the way does anyone know how to get to this place? Apparently, it is Norway.
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Slim Jim
    
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Location: St. Paul, MN
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| | Re: Iron Mountain, Kingsford, Norway Michigan
<Reply # 1 on 11/22/2010 12:29 AM >
| | | | You can see that place from the highway. It's on the north side of the highway. VERY visible. But in the UP you can usually get away with snooping around old ruins and such - nobody really cares.
Copper Country has far more ruins and such than Iron Mountain, but there are a few things to see there. If you have time to drive to the Houghton area, I'd highly recommend it and might be able to point you in the direction of several semi-public ruins.
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dodgeNburn74
Location: Madison, WI
| | Re: Iron Mountain, Kingsford, Norway Michigan
<Reply # 2 on 11/22/2010 10:31 PM >
| | | | Unfortunately, I do not have time to go up to da Copper Country donchya know.  My grandparents were from Laurium (next to Calumet). If I head up that way in spring/summer months would it be ok to message you about places you are aware of? I have been the really obvious places... but, the copper country is a gold mine for Urb-Exers! I really wish I still lived in the UP sometimes!
[last edit 11/22/2010 10:33 PM by dodgeNburn74 - edited 1 times]
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MonoxideChild
Location: Rockford, IL
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| |  | Re: Iron Mountain, Kingsford, Norway Michigan
<Reply # 3 on 11/23/2010 12:33 AM >
| | | | i heard of an old hotel that supposed to look over a lake in iron mountain, and tried to find it last time i was up in the area and didnt have any luck. but there is alot of interesting stuff to be found just from driving around. i go up there a few times a year for family also. the old paper mill on the river always has me drooling/ lol
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heinrick
 
Location: Cascadia
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| | |  | Re: Iron Mountain, Kingsford, Norway Michigan
<Reply # 4 on 11/23/2010 5:19 AM >
| | | | I seem to remember seeing a few abandon-looking things while passing through Channing. Iron River and Chrystal Falls are cool towns, too.
Everything else I know about in the UP is farther away.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/heinrick05/ |
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dodgeNburn74
Location: Madison, WI
| | Re: Iron Mountain, Kingsford, Norway Michigan
<Reply # 5 on 11/23/2010 3:14 PM >
| | | | Posted by xxxmonoxidechild
i heard of an old hotel that supposed to look over a lake in iron mountain, and tried to find it last time i was up in the area and didnt have any luck. but there is alot of interesting stuff to be found just from driving around. i go up there a few times a year for family also. the old paper mill on the river always has me drooling/ lol
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OOOOooooh good call! I forgot about The Niagra Paper Mill on the Menominee River. Supposedly it is closed/ out of business. It also has me drooling! I think I may see how closed they really are this weekend. I am assuming they will have alarm/security measures still up... but I will investigate anyway.
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dodgeNburn74
Location: Madison, WI
| | Re: Iron Mountain, Kingsford, Norway Michigan
<Reply # 6 on 11/23/2010 3:16 PM >
| | | | Posted by heinrick
I seem to remember seeing a few abandon-looking things while passing through Channing. Iron River and Chrystal Falls are cool towns, too.
Everything else I know about in the UP is farther away.
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true. hopefully I will have time to head that way! Thank You!
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Reno77
Location: Ann Arbor, MI
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| | Re: Iron Mountain, Kingsford, Norway Michigan
<Reply # 7 on 11/30/2010 5:23 AM >
| | | | This may be in the wrong post or something so forgive me, but I would highly recommend making a stop by the Tahquamenon Artesian Water Company on the way through the U.P. I believe the building is off HWY 123 and you can't miss it on the East side of the road. It was fairly easily accessable with a little poking around. There were a lot of really interesting papers inside which gave some strange history on the building. The place was in really good shape, just a lot of pigeon crap on the 2nd floor, and a huge brown recluse we found in the basement. I will try and post some pics if your interested.
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Gatsby
Location: Minneapolis, MN
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| | Re: Iron Mountain, Kingsford, Norway Michigan
<Reply # 8 on 12/2/2010 3:23 PM >
| | | | Dodgenburn- 2 of my uncles worked at that now-closed paper mill. I keep making it a point to askingthem about the situation. I'll let you know if I manage to get some info (I live in minneapolis, so I don't really know them as well as I should).
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MonoxideChild
Location: Rockford, IL
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| | | Re: Iron Mountain, Kingsford, Norway Michigan
<Reply # 9 on 11/23/2011 11:34 PM >
| | | | here's a late bump.
went up to iron mountain this past weekend. found out about an old Ford assembly plant where they made the old ford woodie station wagons. its in kingsford, mi. and well, POE is wide open. but is still a pretty active area. but i didnt have any troubles.
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heinrick
Location: Cascadia
Gender: Male
| | | | Re: Iron Mountain, Kingsford, Norway Michigan
<Reply # 10 on 11/24/2011 12:56 AM >
| | | | Posted by Reno77
This may be in the wrong post or something so forgive me, but I would highly recommend making a stop by the Tahquamenon Artesian Water Company on the way through the U.P. I believe the building is off HWY 123 and you can't miss it on the East side of the road. It was fairly easily accessable with a little poking around. There were a lot of really interesting papers inside which gave some strange history on the building. The place was in really good shape, just a lot of pigeon crap on the 2nd floor, and a huge brown recluse we found in the basement. I will try and post some pics if your interested.
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This plus the yellow saltbox house in the same town.
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SlimSpidey
| | Re: Iron Mountain, Kingsford, Norway Michigan
<Reply # 11 on 11/29/2011 1:17 PM >
| | | | Should have headed to the Keweenaw Peninsula, Lots of mine ruins and fun stuff up there.
Also in Gay, Mi is the Mohawk Stamp mill.
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Rattler
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| | Re: Iron Mountain, Kingsford, Norway Michigan
<Reply # 12 on 12/2/2011 2:46 AM >
| | | | We go camping for a week every summer up in the UP with most of it being near or on the Keweenaw. There are a ton of places to explore. I hope to hit Freda for a closer look sometime.
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MKE-Photog
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| | | Re: Iron Mountain, Kingsford, Norway Michigan
<Reply # 13 on 12/8/2011 6:25 PM >
| | | | Great shots. I was just in Kingsford in business and never knew anything about the ford site. I must go back soon. Urban Decay runs rampant in the UP of Michigan. You can find quite a bit just driving, or biking for that matter.
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MKE-Photog
Gender: Male
I'm so confused
| | | Re: Iron Mountain, Kingsford, Norway Michigan
<Reply # 14 on 12/8/2011 6:28 PM >
| | | | Great shots. I was just in Kingsford in business and never knew anything about the ford site. I must go back soon. Urban Decay runs rampant in the UP of Michigan. You can find quite a bit just driving, or biking for that matter.
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