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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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