Heron Bay is a town located to the south of Marathon and shares the post office and phone prefix.

In 2009, Vancouver-based Teck Cominco mining company sold its 50% share of Williams and David Bell to its investing partner, Barrick Gold Corporation, while Golden Giant was decommissioned in 2005.

It boasts the largest indoor shopping mall between Thunder Bay and Sault Ste.

This casual series encompasses a variety of musical genres and showcases talent both local and from "away".

In 2010, Marathon was one of the many Canadian communities that the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics Torch Relay passed through.

These include, among many others, the Cub Scouts, Salvation Army, Girl Guides, Victim Services, and the Royal Canadian Air Cadets.

Marathon has a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen: Dfb), with its position north of Lake Superior the climate is attenuated, mainly the southern heatwaves, due to the hot air masses already have crossing the entire lake.

It is noted differences with Thunder Bay, for example, keeping winters still rigorous but warm summers and sometimes cool.