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Grand Marais (/ ɡ r æ n d ˈ m ə ˈ r eɪ / grand mə-RAY) is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Alger County in the U.S. state of Michigan. [3] It is located within Burt Township on the shores of Lake Superior , and the community is the eastern gateway to the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore via H-58 .
Burt Township is a civil township of Alger County in the U.S. state of Michigan.As of the 2020 census, its population was 411. [3]The township contains the community of Grand Marais, which contains numerous historic structures, including the Pickle Barrel House and the Grand Marais Harbor of Refuge Inner and Outer Lights.
The segment running east of Grand Marais to Deer Park in Luce County is a gravel road that connects to H-37 in Muskallonge Lake State Park. A roadway was present along parts of today's H-58 by the late 1920s; initially, this county road was gravel or earth between Munising and Kingston Corners and connected with other roads to Grand Marais.
Back view of Grand Marais High School. Burt Township School District is a school district headquartered in the community of Grand Marais in the U.S. state of Michigan. [3] The district serves the entirety of Burt Township. [4] The district covers a very large area of 238.57 square miles (617.89 km 2) in northeastern Alger County. [2] [A]
It extends for 42 mi (68 km) along the shore of Lake Superior and covers 73,236 acres (114 sq mi; 296 km 2). The park has extensive views of the hilly shoreline between Munising and Grand Marais in Alger County, with picturesque rock formations, waterfalls, and sand dunes.
Heading north on M-77 midway between Seney and Grand Marais in autumn. Grand Marais is situated on the shores of Lake Superior some 25 miles (40 km) north of the mainline of the Lake Superior Circle Tour. Since the Tour runs only along state trunklines in Michigan, a Scenic Spur of the tour was created to route traffic north from Seney to Grand ...
The Grand Marais Harbor Inner and Outer lights area pair of lighthouses located on the Grand Marais pier, 2,610 feet (800 m) apart. [10] Both are prefabricated skeletal iron or steel structures painted white and bolted to the pier. [6] The outer light is 34 feet (10 m) tall and the inner light is 55 feet (17 m) tall. [3]
June 26, 1990 (M-28 west of Powell Pt.: Munising Township: The Grand Island Range Lights were lit first in 1868, but by 1914 were in poor repair. The new rear range light was a 64-foot (20 m) tower, the upper half (painted white) of which was part of a tower originally located at the Vidal Shoals near Sault Ste. Marie.