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Toggle Lake Michigan subsection. 2.1 Michigan. 2.2 Indiana. 2.3 Illinois. 2.4 Wisconsin. ... Toggle the table of contents. List of ports on the Great Lakes. Add ...
Sank on Lake Superior. The Edmund Fitzgerald was a 729-foot-long (222 m) freighter that sank of an unknown cause in a storm on Lake Superior. The Fitzgerald is the largest ship to sink on the lakes. 46°59.91′N 85°06.61′W. / 46.99850°N 85.11017°W / 46.99850; -85.11017 ( SS Edmund Fitzgerald) SS Carl D. Bradley.
Aug. 28—MANISTEE — One passenger is still missing and one is dead after a fishing boat with five people aboard sunk in Lake Michigan Sunday, the Manistee County Sheriff's Office reported. At 9 ...
Duck Lake State Park is a public recreation area covering 728 acres (295 ha) along Lake Michigan five miles (8.0 km) southwest of Whitehall in Muskegon County, Michigan. The state park, which runs along the north side of Duck Lake to Lake Michigan, features a large sand dune. [4] The park's Scenic Drive is part of the Shoreline Trail route in ...
The largest ferries in Michigan are the car ferries which cross Lake Michigan to Wisconsin. One of these, the SS Badger is one of the last remaining coal steamers on the Great Lakes and serves as a section of US Highway 10 (US 10). The Badger is also the largest ferry in Michigan, capable of carrying 600 passengers and 180 autos.
The Chicago River is a system of rivers and canals with a combined length of 156 miles (251 km) [1] that runs through the city of Chicago, including its center (the Chicago Loop ). [2] Though not especially long, the river is notable because it is one of the reasons for Chicago's geographic importance: the related Chicago Portage is a link ...
Kitch-iti-kipi is an oval pool measuring 300 by 175 feet (91 m × 53 m) and is about 40 feet (12 m) deep with an emerald green bottom. [4] From fissures in underlying limestone flows 10,000 US gallons per minute (630 L/s) of spring water throughout the year at a constant temperature of 45 °F (7 °C). [4] [2]
Lake Lansing Park South includes a band shell, boat rental, fishing dock, swimming beach, bath house, beach, volleyball courts, summer snack bar, horseshoe pits, picnic grounds, and shelters. Lake Lansing Park North is a 530-acre park with multiple hiking trails , playgrounds, and picnic areas.
The PS Lady Elgin was a wooden-hulled sidewheel steamship that sank in Lake Michigan off the fledgling town of Port Clinton, Illinois, whose geography is now divided between Highland Park and Highwood, Illinois, after she was rammed in a gale by the schooner Augusta in the early hours of September 8, 1860. The passenger manifest was lost with ...
November 9, 2005. The St. Joseph North Pier Inner and Outer Lights are lighthouses in Michigan at the entrance to the St. Joseph River on Lake Michigan. The station was built in 1832 with the current lights built in 1906 and 1907; [1] [4] they were decommissioned in 2005. [5]