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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 Upper Peninsula of Michigan is also named after Douglass Houghton.
The island has history of the United States, the Great Lakes, and Michigan for tourists to explore. [6] Mackinac Bridge connects the upper and lower Michigan peninsulas and allows car travel between the two. [6] Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum contains shipwreck artifacts collected from the Great Lakes and is located at Whitefish Point, Michigan. [6]
Lake Independence is located in Marquette County in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan.The lake is fed primarily by the Yellow Dog River.The lake is naturally occurring, but its level has been stabilized and raised slightly to 625 feet (191 m) above mean sea level by a dam.
Michigan's 20 largest inland lakes. This is a list of lakes in Michigan. The American state of Michigan borders four of the five Great Lakes. The number of inland lakes in Michigan depends on the minimum size. There are: 62,798 lakes ≥ 0.1 acres (0.00040 km 2) [1] 26,266 lakes ≥ 1.0 acre (0.0040 km 2) [1] 6,537 lakes ≥ 10.0 acres (0.040 ...
Lake Gogebic (/ ɡ oʊ ˈ ɡ iː b ɪ k / goh-GHEE-bik) is the largest natural inland [2] lake of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. It is located within the one million acre (4,000 km 2) Ottawa National Forest. Lake Gogebic State Park is located along its western shore.
Manitou Island is a small island in Lake Superior, off the northeastern tip of the Keweenaw Peninsula in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is part of Grant Township , in Keweenaw County . Located approximately three miles from the mainland, it encompasses around 1,000 acres (4.0 km 2 ).
Manistique Lake, locally called Big Manistique Lake [2] to distinguish it from the other lakes in the Manistique Lakes system, is a 10,130-acre (4,100 ha) lake in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. Approximately 6.5 miles (10.5 km) long and 4 miles (6.4 km) wide, it is one of the largest lakes in the Upper Peninsula.
The state of Michigan acquired Kitch-iti-kipi in 1926. History records that John I. Bellaire, owner of a Manistique Five and Dime store, fell in love with the black hole spring when he discovered it in the thick wilderness of Michigan's Upper Peninsula in the 1920s. It was hidden in a tangle of fallen trees, and loggers used the nearby area as ...