EAGLE HARBOR
Region: Keweenaw Peninsula
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Situated on the western shore of an beautiful horseshoe harbor with a lighthouse, Eagle Harbor is today a summer resort. Ancient frame houses and newish cottages cluster around a shallow, protected harbor and beach that's one of Lake Superior's most reliably warm places to swim. Eagle Harbor was first settled in 1845 as a port serving two important early inland Keweenaw copper mines, the Copper Falls and the Central.
It's the prettiest village in the northern Keweenaw, with just enough attractions to make it a lazily interesting place to stay: two restaurants with pie and takeout food for a picnic; easy access to Brockway Mountain Drive and other excursions; several delightful local museums run by the Keweenaw Historical Society, an energetic group of old-timers and summer people.
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| A light has been alerting vessels to the treacherous rocks at the harbor's entry since the 1850s. |
Cedar Creek flows into Eagle Harbor from a large cedar swamp south of town. About 4 1/2 miles east-southeast of Eagle Harbor, Lookout Mountain rises 730 feet above Lake Superior. It is accessible by a foot trail that begins from a road just south of town.
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