Golf in Houghton

Houghton is the county seat of Houghton County in Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula, the heart of the Copper Country that produced a significant share of American copper for decades following the mid-nineteenth century discovery of mass copper deposits. Michigan Technological University, founded to train mining engineers for the copper industry, has transformed into a research university whose engineering and technology programs give Houghton an academic identity that supports a year-round population well above what the local economy alone would sustain. Golf near Houghton serves the university city market in a remote UP setting shaped by the extraordinary history of America's first great copper rush.