Porcupine Mountains Music Festival

Porcupine Mountains Winter Sports Complex

Go to www.porkies.org, hover over "helping the park," and select "Porcupine Mountains Music Festival" from the drop down menu.  The Music Festival committee will update information about dates, times, and artists who will perform in 2018. Check the website early and often to stay informed about the 14th Annual Music ...

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Summer Solstice Celebration

Union Bay Folk School Building 107th Engineers Memorial Hwy, Ontonagon, MI

Join us at the Old Carpenter Shop/Folk School in the Porkies as the Friends of the Porkies celebrate the Summer Solstice. Enjoy refreshments and meet new friends. Here's our schedule of activities: 6:00--7:00 p.m.: grill a hot dog (hot dogs, buns, condiments, veggies, chips, etc. provided by Friends), play Kubb, ...

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Folk School Classes Open Soon

In Home Viewing Michigan

We are in the process of changing our digital payment company from PayPal to Square. Please be patient with us. Registrations will open by the end of February.    

Conservation Film: The Wisdom to Survive

Porcupine Mountains State Park Visitor Center 33303 Headquarters Road, Silver City

THE WISDOM TO SURVIVE accepts the consensus of scientists that climate change has already arrived, and asks, what is keeping us from action. Will we have the wisdom to survive?

Summer Solstice Celebration

Union Bay Folk School Building 107th Engineers Memorial Hwy, Ontonagon, MI

Join us at the Old Carpenter Shop/Folk School to celebrate the longest daylight of the year. Play Kubb, a Scandinavian lawn game, join the bonfire circle, sample tasty treats. Enjoy music. Stay for s'mores. Goodwill donations appreciated.

Folk School Open House

Union Bay Folk School Building 107th Engineers Memorial Hwy, Ontonagon, MI

Wonder what a Folk School is all about? Come to the Porkies Folk School open house in Silver City. Tour our classroom and wood shop, check out student products from former classes, chat with a Folk School volunteer. All ages are welcome! Goodwill donations are appreciated.

Celebrate Lake Superior Day: Part 1 at the Porkies VC

Porcupine Mountains State Park Visitor Center 33303 Headquarters Road, Silver City

Explore Lake Superior by kayak with Dean Juntunen, assisted by Katie Urban. Dean will illustrate his narrative with slides from his kayak adventures on the big lake. No food or beverages in the visitor center please.

Conservation Film: No Time to Waste

Porcupine Mountains State Park Visitor Center 33303 Headquarters Road, Silver City

NO TIME TO WASTE celebrates legendary 99-year-old park ranger Betty Reid Soskin's inspiring life, work and urgent mission to restore critical missing chapters of America's story.

Conservation Film: Guardian

Porcupine Mountains State Park Visitor Center 33303 Headquarters Road, Silver City

Against the backdrop of BC's spectacular Great Bear Rainforest along British Columbia’s coast, Guardians and the salmon they monitor are victims of science censorship and reckless extractive industries.

Conservation Film: Tapped

Porcupine Mountains State Park Visitor Center 33303 Headquarters Road, Silver City

Is access to clean drinking water a basic human right, or a commodity that should be bought and sold like any other article of commerce? This timely documentary is a behind-the-scenes look into the unregulated and unseen world of the bottled water industry.

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