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Travel

While Sandra Bernhardt may have graced our Calumet Theatre stage in 1902, it is not longer the case that we are on the map as a destination. We pride ourselves in our remoteness (Michigan Tech is the American university farthest from any interstate), so gird yourself for a visit to the “End of the Earth.”

We will be providing minivans for local transportation in town, and of course buses to all out-of-town tours.  But getting here may take some planning.

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What that means is that our small local airport (Houghton Co. Memorial, airport code: CMX) is served only by United, only though Chicago O’Hare (oh joy…), and only with 2 or 3 flights per day on small CRJ regional jets that seat ~52 passengers. That means the local airport will not be able to accommodate all expected delegates coming in Wednesday and out on Sunday.  The next nearest airports are each about 100 miles from here (Marquette MQT, Iron Mountain IMT, and Rhinelander RHI) and the next nearest semi-major airports (Green Bay GRB, Duluth DLH) are 200 miles.

So, depending on how you get to our area, you may need to rent a car, and we should also warn you that even if you grab a flight into CMX, the National Rent-a-Car deks there (the only company) has a limited fleet of cars. We will organize some minivans and local volunteer personal vehicles for pick-up and drop off at the airport.

Also–and we hope that this is not dampening your spirits–there is really no public transportation in our towns of Houghton-Hancock (there is on-demand pre-booked city shuttles for city residents only), basically no taxis (there is one guy who does airport runs…), and there are literally only 1 Uber driver and one Lyft driver in our area… so we are very much not urban (or urbain!) in any way.  One the plus side, we are also family skint on chain stores and restaurants, which in my book is a good thing.

Lodging

…coming soon