Golf in Ahmeek

Ahmeek is a small copper-mining village in Houghton County in the Keweenaw Peninsula, a community whose existence is directly tied to the Copper Range Company's operations at the turn of the twentieth century when the Keweenaw's copper mines made this remote peninsula one of the world's most productive metal-mining regions. The Keweenaw's mining heritage—the stamp mills, the mine shafts, the company-built housing still visible throughout the peninsula's villages—gives Ahmeek a historical depth that its current small population belies, and golf in this remote Upper Peninsula community reflects the resilient recreational culture of a region that has built an outdoor-recreation tourism economy on the bones of its industrial past.