EAT
Shop and Eat at Home
Eat Out (check back we update frequently)
- Suffolk Street Eatery ( less than 5 minutes from house, located downtown Ironwood) Bistro style food, vegetarian options, delicious check their FB page for hours though.
- Cute coffeeshop with an outdoor eating area you can bring your pooch too - Contrast Coffee
- Love LOVE love Copper Cup. It's a drive thru literally two minutes from the house!
- Don and GG's is owned by two Detroit girls and is great food and great company! Close to the house too! Their website is a FB page. Their address is 1300 E Cloverland, Ironwood
PLAY
Downtown Ironwood (always updating)
- Fun splashpad, grassy area and outdoor music in the summer - Downtown City Square
- Cool wall butterfly mural for picture
- Miners Park for snowshoeing and hiking - 165 acres, great trails, easy to follow
- Great wine bar and bottle shop - White Rabbit Wine Bar vibe is friendly upscale yooper (if ya know ya know)
- Cold Iron Brewing is a great brewery. Bring in your own food, bring the kids, even bring in the dogs! I would bring something for them to lay on in the winter, the concrete floors are cold in the winter.
- Ben Franklin - cutest, biggest most perfect store for all your tourist and local gifts
ADVENTURE
Winter (under development)
- Skiing is top of the list of course
- Big Powderhorn Mountain Resort - 15 minutes from house, usually quick lines.
- Mt. Zion Ski Hill - really close to the house, ran by the local community college, their FB page is most accurate. They also have tubing on weekends - check their FB page first!
- Snow River Mountain Resort
- They have two hills as part of their resort Jackson Creek Summit and Black River Basin
Spring
- Water falls are the best - check out the Black River Scenic byway for 5 waterfalls!
Summer
- The Iron Belle bike paths are great in the summer.
- Hike the waterfalls
- Paddle board Lake Superior (never alone, it's not like a lake it's more like a beautiful but angry ocean)
- Rock hunting on the shores of Lake Superior are the best in the summer!
- Hike Miners Park - great trails and a cool little pond
Fall
- Do a Fall Color tour! Check out uptravel for a great map of a loop that starts and ends in Ironwood.
- Check out Copper Peak for a great view ($$).
- Check out Mt. Zion scenic overlook for free - it's right around the corner from the house!