Marquette Mountain and the business of winter
Marquette Mountain sits just south of the city and gives Marquette something few towns its size have: a downhill ski area 10 minutes from downtown.
Carl Tellefsen and why skiing’s hall of fame is in Ishpeming
Norwegian immigrants made Ishpeming a ski jumping town. In 1905 one of them, Carl Tellefsen, helped found the National Ski Association there.