HMC

One of the great pleasures Joan and I had while I lived in the U.P was to be invited to the Huron Mountain Club near the small town of Big Bay.

When I bought my first property of 27 acres on county Road #510, I was invited to a potluck dinner to meet the other 14 adults who lived within 15 miles of me. Mike Davis, and his partner, Mary O'Donnell were two of those people. Over a little time, we became friends.

Mike worked at the HMC, worked with a crew of carpenters who did renovations to members cabins.

Those cabins were not like a vision you have now in your mind. The members of the club had an abundance of money and the "cabins" were very large, more like a house with several rooms.

Some time later, Mike became the leader of the crew because he was a master carpenter.

As an employee, he was allowed to bring visitors into the club to explore and enjoy it. That is how we, Joan and I were able to get into that exclusive, extensive acreage

Huron Mountain is a private club on a contiguous tract of woodland located within the Huron Mountains region of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, 30 miles northwest of the city of Marquette.  The Club lands include unpaved roads to access a network of interior lakes and streams as well as trails to other points of interest. The Club provides its members and its employees the opportunity for various forms of healthful recreation including hiking, fishing and hunting..

The Huron Mountain Club (HMC), over time, it evolved to encompass a vast estate with significant old-growth forest, inland lakes, and a focus on conservation and research, attracting notable members like Henry Ford, John M. Longyear and General George Marshall among it's members, and even President Harry Truman visited the club. 

 

 Situated in Marquette County, near the shore of Lake Superior, on a large tract of private land encompassing approximately 26,000 acres, including significant old-growth forests and 13 inland lakes.

 

HMC provides its member and employees the opportunity for various forms of healthful recreation. 

 

The HMC continues to be a significant, though secretive, enclave on Lake Superior, with members owning private cabins on the property and the club maintaining facilities like a clubhouse, general store, and firehouse