Nothing Left in the Michigan Ghost Town of Frost in the U.P.

I came across this curious little hamlet by accident. There are no shops, no businesses of any kind, no homes...in fact, there are no structures of ANY kind. All that remains are the railroad tracks (don’t think they’re being used, though – there are bushes growing out of them).

The area is called ‘Frost’ on maps, and ‘Frost Junction’ on old atlases, located out in the middle of nowhere in Houghton County’s Laird Township in the Upper Peninsula.

Frost is in the heart of the UP’s Copper Country near the boundary of Iron County. Sitting smack in the thick of mining country, Frost had little else going for it, other than it had a railroad station and a general store, both of which are long gone, with zero remains to show for them.

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Frost and its surrounding area were settled in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with many residents working as miners and lumberjacks. Frost didn’t get a chance to grow further, thanks to the shutdowns of mines and the depletion of timber.

I don’t know why this hamlet struck me like it did, but this is all I could find out about it: a little railroad crossing out in the middle of nowhere in the UP with more to it than a casual passerby would realize.

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