CHAMBER BLOG

The above picture forms the cover for Up North Action magazine, which is published by 5-Star Marketing–an Ironwood Chamber member. It is great to have the Western U.P. and Copper Peak featured in this Fall’s magazine. For a glorious few weeks, this entire landscape becomes a festival of nature’s color. If you have never visited […]

Thursday, September 12 saw the official opening of the Bessemer to Ramsay extension of the Iron Belle Trail. Your friendly Chamber blogger noted a goodly group of cars at the Ironwood Depot (beside the trail) and Bessemer “midpoint” and a number of them had out-of-state plates–proof that the Iron Belle is growing each year as […]

It’s open!! The next section of the Iron Belle Trail heading East from the Montreal river at Ironwood is now open. This section joins up in Bessemer and takes the bike or hike adventurer to Ramsay, MI, where it ends at a park that adjoins the famous Keystone Bridge. At about 10.5 miles from Ironwood […]

Monday, 24 August 2020 marked the official reception of Boutique Air as the airline service provider for the Gogebic-Iron Airport, which is located just north of Ironwood, on Airport Road. A goodly number of folks were there to watch a flight taxi in, and later, take off. As part of the ribbon cutting celebration, cake […]

Starting August 1, Gogebic-Iron Airport has a new service provider: Boutique Air. Founded in 2007, and based in San Francisco, CA, Boutique Air now has a substantial fleet and serves an expanding air network. Stop out to the Airport on Monday, 24 August, at 12:00 noon as they have their official ribbon cutting as our […]

It seems hard to believe, but the Fall Color Report is starting its countdown to the very best Fall Colors in the U.P. Please check in with them and catch their weekly FB post that shows color percentages across the Upper Peninsula. Visitors here in the Chamber office today from Illinois who are staying for […]

Paving of the Iron Belle Trail from Bessemer to Ramsay has been accomplished. The above picture gives a hint at the beauty which awaits the hiker or the biker! With the advent of Fall next month, the entire paved trail from the Montreal River to Ramsay (10 miles) will exhibit the most wonderful of Fall […]

August 3rd saw the installation of our 2nd and companion Depot Park webcam. The picture above shows the new camera view, which is pointed East. Now, for the first time, the entire of Depot park from Lowell Street in the West to Suffolk Street in the East can be seen. This means that the Iron […]

July 27 is starting out to be a pretty “level” day!  The street by the Depot and Post Office is getting a re-do this morning.  All part of Ironwood’s positive attention to our infrastructure–an important element in attracting residents, shops, and manufactures.  Have you every considered Ironwood as the the place to be for your […]

July 20 the Office Guy composed a blog note about change & how the events of the past six months have ushered in an enormous amount of it!  This morning (July 21), Office Guy (OG) is communicating out another example:  the changed form of this year’s Ironwood’s Iron Belle Bridges & Bluffs run.  The following […]

Downtown Ironwood is seeing a big landscape change beginning to take shape.  As seen in the picture, two former parking lots are being redeveloped into a central city plaza which will feature a music shell, picnic tables, a splash pad, trailhead kiosk, food-truck plug-ins, and other amenities all focused on creating a central gathering place […]

At a meeting of the Festival Ironwood Committee on 18 May, it was decided not to hold the Festival this year. This was a difficult decision, but under the current Covid-19 restrictions, the decision to cancel the 15-18 July 2020 event seemed the safest path to follow. The Festival Ironwood Committee hopes that the 2021 […]