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"Your
Adventure Starts Here" |
Keweenaw Adventure Company is Michigan’s northern-most bike
shop. Perhaps best described as an “outpost shop
at the end of the road”, we specialize in the needs of
the travelling cycling enthusiast. Our qualified mechanics
and essential selection of parts and accessories will
keep you rolling during your visit to Copper Harbor.
Or you can expereince some of the Midwest's
best singletrack trails on one of the industry's
best mountain bikes from Kona & Marin.
We have maps and are the local experts when it comes to sharing
trail information...our staff spends countless hours
of volunteer time each season helping to build and maintain
the trails and know them better than anyone! Learn
more about the Copper Harbor Trails Club and how you
can help to support the human-powered trails at www.copperharbortrails.org
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IMBA
Trail Care Crew August 2008
Collins and Kelly Bishop at Keweenaw Adventure Co. |
Centrally
located in “downtown” Copper Harbor, the principal mountain
bike trailhead is conviently located right across the street,
behind the Welcome Center. Copper Harbor has a well-established
network of over 25 miles of designated, marked and mapped
singletrack trails that include some of the most unique, scenic and
challenging mountain biking in all of Michigan.
In addition to these trails, miles and miles of logging roads
and jeep trails traverse the uninhabited tip of the Keweenaw
Peninsula, with access to remote Lake Superior shorelines,
State forest and conservancy lands.
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Some
of the 50+ volunteers who attended the IMBA trail school
in Copper Harbor. August 2008
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The
terrain of the Keweenaw Peninsula surrounding Copper Harbor
is mountainous by Midwestern standards and has some of the
highest vertical elevation (up to 900’) between the Appalachian
and the Rocky Mountains! Scoured away by the glaciers over
10,000 years ago, the rocky, rugged terrain of exposed bedrock,
spiny ridge-lines and undulating valleys left behind offer
a “genuine” mountain biking experience unlike anywhere else
in this part of the country. Combine this with rugged
Lake Superior shoreline, the enchanted northwoods “Boreal
Forest”, ideal climate for riding in the summer, surealistic
fall color season and genuine Upper Peninsula hospitality,
the Keweenaw is a premier destination for a mountain
bike vacation. |
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