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Grand Marais (/ m ə ˈ r eɪ / mə-RAY) [6] is a city and the county seat of Cook County, Minnesota, United States, of which it is the only municipality. It is on Lake Superior's North Shore. Grand Marais had a population of 1,337 at the 2020 census. [2] Before it was settled by French Canadians and before Minnesota's statehood, it was ...
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 .
First sign for the Gunflint Trail in Grand Marais. County State-Aid Highway 12 (CSAH 12), also known as the Gunflint Trail, or County Road 12 (CR 12), is a 57-mile (92 km) paved roadway and National Scenic Byway in Cook County, Minnesota, that begins in Grand Marais and ends at Saganaga Lake in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW), near the U.S. border with Ontario.
Map of Grand Marais Harbor. In the 1870s, shipping traffic through Lake Superior increased tremendously. [6] Realizing the lack of a safe harbor between Whitefish Bay and Grand Island, the Army Corps of Engineers began upgrading the harbor at Grand Marais in 1881. Over the next ten years, the Corps dredged the harbor and constructed a 5,770 ...
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In late 1961, about three miles (4.8 km) was paved to the west of Grand Marais. [21] [22] The county-designated highway system was created around October 5, 1970, [2] and the section of H-58 was shown on state maps for the first time in 1971. Initially, only the section between Grand Marais and Deer Park was marked as part of H-58. [23]
The Lightkeeper's House, also known as the Cook County History Museum, is a historic building in Grand Marais, Minnesota, United States.. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, and was nominated for being "a significant survivor of the settlement along Minnesota's north shore during the last decades of the nineteenth century.
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 ...