Golf in Bessemer

Bessemer is a Gogebic County city in Michigan's Upper Peninsula western iron range, a community whose iron mining and logging heritage defines the cultural character of the UP's western tip near the Wisconsin border. The Gogebic Iron Range's mining history—the underground iron ore operations that built Bessemer, Ironwood, and the surrounding communities in the late nineteenth century—has left a landscape of former mine sites and the working-class culture of a region that has navigated the transition from industrial production to an economy built more around outdoor recreation and modest tourism. Golf near Bessemer reflects the recreational culture of a remote UP community whose winters are long and whose summers are valued intensely.