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The State Line Trail is a 107.1-mile (172.4 km) hiking trail in Michigan. Michigan's longest trail as of 2020, it creates a non-highway right-of-way through the western third of the Upper Peninsula. The trail uses a section of the former roadbed of the Chicago and North Western Railway. [1]
Houghton Lake (/ ˈ h oʊ t ən /; HOH-tən) is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Roscommon County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 5,294 during the 2020 census , making it the largest unincorporated community in Northern Michigan .
It is an extremely popular resort and fishing area year round. Houghton Lake is the site of Tip-Up-Town USA, a large ice fishing and winter sports festival with several events on the frozen waters of the lake itself. Houghton Lake is named after the first state geologist, Douglass Houghton who explored the area. [2] Houghton County, in the ...
M-55 passes over the US 127 freeway and enters Houghton Lake Heights. There the highway runs southeasterly along the shores of Houghton Lake into downtown Houghton Lake. M-18 briefly joins M-55 through Prudenville on the east side of the lake, and M-55 follows West Branch Road as it continues east toward Interstate 75 (I-75). [2] [3]
Congress passed a law to build a military wagon road on March 3, 1863, from Fort Wilkins to Houghton and then south to the state line. The road was laid out in 1864 following what is today M-26 between Copper Harbor and Phoenix, US 41 south to Houghton, M-26 south to Winona and Federal Forest Highway 16 (FFH-16) to the state line.
Of the over 10,500 miles (16,900 km) in the New York State snowmobile trail system, about 8,000 miles (13,000 km) are corridor trails. [2] Corridor trails are high-volume primary routes that provide access to high-use areas and large concentrations of snowmobiles. [4]
Part of Dix–Toledo Highway; labeled "I-75 connector" on state maps; previously part of US 25 and later Connector 3 [234] Connector 25: 0.265: 0.426 BL I-69/BL I-94 in Port Huron: M-25 in Port Huron 1973 [240] current Labeled "I-94 connector" on state maps; previously part of US 25 [240] and later Connector 13 [234] Connector 30: 0.629: 1.012
The Lake Erie Circle Tour (LECT) loops around Lake Erie following state and provincial highways. These highways are usually the closest to the lake. [1] The LECT follows state highways in the US states of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Michigan and provincial highways in the Canadian province of Ontario.