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The St. Joseph River (known locally as the St. Joe) is a 210-mile-long (340 km) river that flows in a generally westerly direction through southern Michigan and northern Indiana, United States, before emptying into Lake Michigan. The St. Joseph River drainage basin covers 4,685 square miles (12,130 km 2), and is the third largest watershed ...
The Platte River (/ p l æ t /) is a 29.5-mile-long (47.5 km) river in the northwestern Lower Peninsula of Michigan. [1] Beginning at Long Lake in Grand Traverse County, the Platte River flows west across Benzie County before ending at Platte Bay, a small bay of Lake Michigan, in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.
The Shelldrake River is a 32-mile-long (51 km) [3] river in Chippewa County on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the United States. It flows through Tahquamenon Falls State Park and the Lake Superior State Forest into Lake Superior . The Shelldrake River's headwaters are an undefined area in the Betsy Lake Wetland, an Eastern Hemlock and ...
The main stream of this river is 63.9 miles (102.8 km) long, [1] running from Lake County south of Baldwin into the Pere Marquette Lake, and from there into Lake Michigan. [2] This river is named after the French Roman Catholic missionary Jacques Marquette, who explored the Great Lakes and Mississippi River areas during the mid-17th century. He ...
Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore is a U.S. National Lakeshore in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, United States. 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 ...
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 ...
The Chippewa River is a stream in Michigan, United States, that runs 91.8 miles (147.7 km) [ 3] through the central Lower Peninsula. The Chippewa is a tributary of the Tittabawassee River and is thus part of the Saginaw River drainage basin. The river is named after the Chippewa people (the Saginaw Chippewa Tribal Nation is located in Isabella ...
Buck Creek (Kent County, Michigan) Buck Creek is a 20.3-mile-long (32.7 km) [ 2] tributary of the Grand River in Kent and Allegan counties in the U.S. state of Michigan. It rises in northern Allegan County in Byron and Gaines townships, and flows through the cities of Kentwood and Wyoming as an urban stream to enter the Grand River in Grandville.