Keweenaw Community Foundation
HANCOCK With support from the Keweenaw Community Foundation’s PHF Outdoor Wellness and Recreation Fund Grant, the Chassell Trails Mapping Project was successfully completed. The project supports existing and new trail development in Houghton and surrounding counties by providing users of the existing classic cross-country ski and snowshoe trails and the new fitness trail with GPS mapped trails laid into Google Maps. The project also provides large-scale, detailed maps installed at the Heritage Center, former ice rink, Marinette Street, and Archambeau Road trailheads, as well as the 2K and 5K cutoffs of the trail system.
“The Keweenaw Community Foundation’s PHF Outdoor Wellness and Recreation Grant and the significant volunteer effort by Gowtham Sh (G) to collect the data we needed to create these awesome maps were instrumental in putting this new signage and Google mapped trails in place, said Chassell Township Supervisor David Mattison. “Hav