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The Grand River (Ottawa: owashtanong, "Far-Flowing Water") [3] [4] is a 252-mile-long (406 km) river in the Lower Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan.The longest river in Michigan, [5] the Grand River rises in Hillsdale County, and flows in a generally northwesterly direction to its mouth at Lake Michigan in the city of Grand Haven.
Tahquamenon Falls in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.. The heavily forested Upper Peninsula is relatively mountainous in the west. The Porcupine Mountains, which are part of one of the oldest mountain chains in the world, [3] rise to an altitude of almost 2,000 feet (610 m) above sea level and form the watershed between the streams flowing into Lake Superior and Lake Michigan.
Several names are shared by different rivers; for example, there are eight Pine Rivers and seven Black Rivers. In four cases there are two rivers of the same name in one county. In these cases extra information such as alternate name or body of water they flow into has been added. Map of Michigan rivers Tahquamenon River
Lake Huron, Michigan Lake Huron has the longest shoreline of all the Great Lakes , stretching more than 3,800 miles. One of the most photographed spots is Turnip Rock, near Port Austin, Michigan.
Muskegon Lake is a 4,150-acre (16.8 km 2) fresh-water lake in Muskegon County, Michigan, USA.Located in the lower peninsula at the mouth of the Muskegon River, Muskegon Lake forms a 12-square-mile (31 km 2) broad harbor along the eastern shoreline of Lake Michigan, approximately 2.5 miles (4.0 km) wide by 5.5 miles (8.9 km) long.
Peninsular Dam, Ypsilanti Huron Parkway bridge over Geddes Pond viewed from Gallup Park, Ann Arbor Huron River near downtown Ann Arbor . The Huron River is a 130-mile-long (210 km) [2] river in southeastern Michigan, rising out of the Huron Swamp in Springfield Township in northern Oakland County and flowing into Lake Erie, as it forms the boundary between present-day Wayne and Monroe counties.
Aggregated, Lake Huron-Michigan, at 45,300 square miles (117,000 km 2), "is technically the world's largest freshwater lake". [11] Lake Superior, at 21 feet higher elevation, drains into the St. Marys River which then flows into Lake Huron. The water then flows south to the St. Clair River, at Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario.
Torch Lake is a lake in the Northern Lower Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. At 19 miles (31 km) long, is Michigan's longest inland lake, and at approximately 29.3 mi 2 (76 km 2), it is Michigan's second largest inland lake, after Houghton Lake. It has a maximum depth of 310 feet (94 m) and an average depth of 111 feet (34 m), making it ...