“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving” - Albert Einstein
Learn more about biking in the UP at Down Wind Sports
“IF YOU THINK ADVENTURE IS DANGEROUS, TRY ROUTINE, IT'S LETHAL” ~ PAUL COELHO
Find your adventure at Down Wind Sports
“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.” - Henry David Thoreau.
Learn more about fly fishing in the U.P. at Down Wind Sports
“If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.” - Loren Eiseley
Learn more about paddling in the UP at Down Wind Sports
"Carry as little as possible, but choose that little with care.” - Earl Shaffer
Learn more about surfing Lake Superior at Down Wind Sports
With a beautiful aerodynamic torpedo shape, the flying fish produces an enormous amount of speed to break the water’s surface and with its large, wing-like pectoral fins helps get them airborne. Flying Fish are famous for leaping from the water to glide in the air using these long, winglike fins, to escape predators. Evolving from half-beak-like […]
We’re back!We have to say we have missed all of our customers over the last month and hopefully now we can start to get back to providing gear to get you outside and of course social distancing! Here is how we are going to do a slow roll out for opening: *The Marquette and Houghton […]
Well it finally happened…..we’ve joined the rest of the world and are doing some online sales!We set this up as well as a way to support our stores and employees during our shut down for Covid-19. You’ll notice a very limited product selection focusing on gift cards and locally engraved drinkware. Love the U.P. and […]
STORE CLOSURE UPDATE:Hello Friends!For the safety of our staff and customers, we will be temporarily be closing all 3 of our locations today through May 1st.If you need anything please contact us via email at downwindsports@gmail.com or message us through our Facebook page. Thank you for your understanding
We’re getting a bunch of snow! Isn’t that great? Great for winter sports, but not so great for running our winter sports demo in Munising tomorrow. So, unfortunately we are rescheduling it. Please stay tuned for an announcement with the new dates, and enjoy the snow!
Down Wind Sports will present the 8th annual Winter Sports On-Snow Demo on Saturday Saturday January 11th in Marquette, January 12th in Houghton and January 18th in Munising. This is your chance to demo the latest cross country skis from Rossignol. We will also have snowshoes from Tubbs so you can bring the whole family […]
