Ride along with skydive over Michigan’s Copper Peak ski jump
Mike Tittel / Red Bull Content Pool Miles Daisher and Andy Farrington kiting off Copper Peak in Ironwood on 11 May, 2019 By Brandon Champion | bchampio@mlive.com IRONWOOD, MI – The view from atop Michigan’s Copper Peak ski jump is one of the best in the Midwest. The view looking down on it may be even […]
Racers double for second year of Red Bull 400 race up Michigan’s Copper Peak ski-jump
IRONWOOD, MI – Double the competitors and two new course records. That was the story of the day at the Red Bull 400 in Ironwood, where 1,000 athletes from across the globe raced 40 stories uphill to the top of Copper Peak’s ski jumping tower on May 11. Competitors traveled from as far away Malaysia […]
Pro Sports Extra: Watch: Red Bull 400, 2019 Copper Peak | Laugh as I attempt to run it
Via Pro Sports Extra Watch: Red Bull 400, 2019 Copper Peak | Laugh as I attempt to run it By: TrevStone Posted on May 13, 2019 Last year I attended the Red Bull 400 in Ironwood, Michigan – Copper Peak for the opportunity to get footage for Pro Sports Extra but this year is different as two weeks ago […]
World’s steepest 400-meter race hits Ironwood Saturday
via NewsWatch 12 Check out the video of Ben Semenek here. IRONWOOD, MI – Ben Semenek looked up from the start of the Red Bull 400 in Ironwood and saw the finish line that eluded him last year. “It’s the hardest 400-meter race in the world,” said Semenek. “It’s as difficult as advertised.” For him, finishing […]
Red Bull 400 registration at Copper Peak nearly sold out
via TV6 By Sarah Blakely | Posted: Fri 9:17 AM, May 03, 2019 | Updated: Fri 3:54 PM, May 03, 2019 WAKEFIELD, Mich. (WLUC) – The Red Bull 400 is coming back to Copper Peak on Saturday, May 11, and registration is nearly sold out. Last year’s inaugural event was Copper Peak’s first major event since 1994. It saw about […]
$10 million grant presents a ‘powerful opportunity’ for U.P. ski jumps
By Emily Bingham | ebingham@mlive.com IRONWOOD, MICH. — One of the planet’s historically superlative ski jump spots is on the precipice of making Michigan a world-class destination for the sport. Copper Peak and Pine Mountain, a pair of ski jumps located in the western Upper Peninsula, were jointly awarded a $10 million grant from the […]
City commissioners pleased with late-year economic news
By RALPH ANSAMI (ransami@yourdailyglobe.com) Ironwood — There were smiling faces on Ironwood City Commissioners Wednesday as they discussed economic developments in the late year that will benefit the area. “A number of things came our way,” city manager Scott Erickson said as he began listing some of the recent accomplishments, including $10 million for Copper Peak, $1.5 million […]
Copper Peak receives 10 million dollars for remodeling project
IRONWOOD, Mich. (WLUC) – Copper Peak will receive a 10 million dollar grant to help with their remodeling project. This project has been a work in progress for almost five years. They plan to share some of the money with the Pine Mountain Facility to work on building their ski jumps back up into world competition. […]
More than $119 million earmarked for the U.P.
INFORMATION BELOW COURTESY KARYN OLSSON, INTERIM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AT INVEST U.P. HOUGHTON, Michigan (December 21, 2018) – Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is celebrating the recent appropriation of $119.3 million and the creation of numerous new jobs by the outgoing Michigan State Legislature. The approved funds will leverage an additional $37 million of additional public and private […]
Copper Peak Is Feeling Jolly This Holiday Season
IRONWOOD – We wanted to share our great news with you! Copper Peak recently came out a big winner, as well as the whole Upper Peninsula of Michigan, in the state budget bill passed Friday morning by the Michigan Legislature. A grant of $10 million was appropriated for renovation projects at Copper Peak and Pine Mountain, […]
