The Paleoproterozoic Penokean orogen of the Lake Superior region, records a dynamic and protracted tectonic history of terrane accretion and orogenic collapse. Metamorphic features, located within a narrow corridor of deformed supracrustal rocks, include gneiss domes, fault-bounded structural panels, and concentric metamorphic isograds (nodes). This investigation has led to constraining the timing of metamorphism by utilizing U-Th-Pb monazite geochronometric and Ar-Ar muscovite thermochronometric techniques from samples collected across the orogen. Metamorphic and cooling ages reveal peak Penokean (M1) metamorphism at ~1830 Ma, a weaker 1800 Ma (M2) thermal pulse, tectonic collapse, M3 metamorphism, and rapid unroofing at 1760 Ma related to Yavapai convergence. Tectonic extrusion of a mid-crustal block, and basement diapirism via a density inversion are suggested as the mechanism. South of the deformation corridor, Penokean and Yavapai events are overprinted by 1630 Ma Mazatzal and 1470 Ma Wolf River Batholith deformational and thermal events.