Golf in Kingsford

Kingsford is a Dickinson County city adjacent to Iron Mountain in the central Upper Peninsula, a community whose origins trace directly to the Ford Motor Company's decision to locate a charcoal-making plant here—using waste wood from its UP logging operations to supply the charcoal briquette operations that became the Kingsford charcoal brand still sold today. The company town history that built Kingsford's neighborhoods and the manufacturing character that has persisted through the Dickinson County economy give the community its distinctive industrial UP identity. Kingsford and Iron Mountain function together as the commercial and recreational hub of the central UP's most urbanized corridor.