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M-48 (Michigan Highway)
M-48 is an east–west state trunkline highway in the Upper Peninsula (UP) of the US state of Michigan. It connects Rudyard with Pickford and continues to the far eastern end of the UP. The highway runs for through rural parts of Chippewa County, including along the county line with Mackinac County. Between 580 and 1,800 vehicles a day use the roadway daily. The highway was designated by 1919 along a route that ran much farther west in the UP. Within its first decade, M-48 was extended to end at a point north of Newberry. Since the 1960s, it has had its current configuration. A section of roadway that was previously used as part of the western end of the highway was redesignated as a section H-40 in the 1970s. Route description M-48 currently starts at an interchange with Interstate 75 (I-75) in the Rudyard area. The highway runs west from the interchange into Rudyard where it turns south, running concurrently with county road H-63. M-48 turns eastward south of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake Huron Circle Tour
The Great Lakes Circle Tour is a designated scenic road system connecting all of the Great Lakes and the Saint Lawrence River, St. Lawrence River. It consists of routes for circumnavigating the lakes, either individually or collectively. It was designated by the Great Lakes Commission in 1988. Tours Lake Superior Circle Tour The Lake Superior Circle Tour (LSCT) follows state and provincial highways that are nearby the lake to loop around the entirety of Lake Superior. The LSCT follows state highways in the US states of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, and provincial highways in the Canadian province of Ontario. Michigan In Michigan, the tour runs from the state line at Ironwood, Michigan, Ironwood to Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, Sault Ste. Marie. In between it follows U.S. Route 2 in Michigan, U.S. Highway 2 (US 2) to Wakefield, Michigan, Wakefield, M-28 (Michigan highway), M-28 to Bergland, Michigan, Bergland and M-64 (Michigan highway), M-64 to Ontonagon, Michi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake Superior State Forest
Lake Superior State Forest is a state forest in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, United States. It is operated by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. The North Country Trail utilizes this state forest for 43 miles (69 km) of its route. The Lake Superior forest region was one of the last areas in Michigan to be logged for old-growth Red Pine and White Pine. Logging continued into the 1910s. Much of the sandy, cut-over land was seen as worthless and was allowed to revert to the state of Michigan in lieu of unpaid property tax A property tax (whose rate is expressed as a percentage or per mille, also called ''millage'') is an ad valorem tax on the value of a property.In the OECD classification scheme, tax on property includes "taxes on immovable property or Wealth t ...es. The state reorganized these parcels of property as the Lake Superior State Forest. External links Michigan Department of Natural Resources Protected areas of Luce County, Michigan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
M-117 (Michigan Highway)
M-117 is a Michigan Highway System, state trunkline highway in the eastern Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Upper Peninsula (UP) of the US state of Michigan. The highway connects U.S. Route 2 in Michigan, US Highway 2 (US 2) with M-28 (Michigan highway), M-28 west of Newberry, Michigan, Newberry. The designation has been used twice in the UP, once in 1941 for a former section of US 2 between Rexton, Michigan, Rexton and Epoufette, Michigan, Epoufette, and the second in 1949 for the current corridor. The second version included a section that ran north of Newberry along what is now M-123 (Michigan highway), M-123, but it was truncated to its current routing in the 1960s. Since 1993, the trunkline has been dedicated to the 117th Quartermaster Battalion, a former National Guard unit from Kingsford, Michigan, Kingsford. Route description The highway begins at US 2, one mile (1.6 km) south of Engadine, Michigan, Engadine and crosses the Canadian National Railwa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
M-134 (Michigan Highway)
M-134 is an east–west Michigan State Trunkline Highway System, state trunkline highway in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Upper Peninsula (UP) of the US state of Michigan. It connects Interstate 75 in Michigan, Interstate 75 (I-75) north of St. Ignace, Michigan, St. Ignace with the communities of Hessel, Michigan, Hessel, Cedarville, Michigan, Cedarville and De Tour Village, Michigan, De Tour Village along Lake Huron. East of De Tour, the highway crosses the De Tour Passage on a ferry to run south of the community of Drummond, Michigan, Drummond on Drummond Island, Michigan, Drummond Island. It is one of only three state trunklines in Michigan on islands; the others are M-154 (Michigan highway), M-154 on Harsens Island and M-185 (Michigan highway), M-185 on Mackinac Island. M-134 is also one of only two highways to utilize a ferry in Michigan; the other is U.S. Route 10 in Michigan, US Highway 10 (US 10) which crosses Lake Michigan from Manitowoc, Wisconsin, to Ludington, M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake Michigan
Lake Michigan ( ) is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. It is the second-largest of the Great Lakes by volume () and depth () after Lake Superior and the third-largest by surface area (), after Lake Superior and Lake Huron. To the east, its basin is conjoined with that of Lake Huron through the wide and deep Straits of Mackinac, giving it the same surface elevation as its eastern counterpart; hydrologically, the two bodies are Lake Michigan–Huron, a single lake that is, by area, the largest freshwater lake in the world. Lake Michigan is the only Great Lake located fully in the United States; the other four are shared between the U.S. and Canada. It is the world's List of lakes by area, largest lake, by area, located fully in one country, and is shared, from west to east, by the U.S. states of Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan. Ports along its shores include Chicago, Illinois, Gary, Indiana, Gary, Indiana, Milwaukee and Green Bay, Wisconsin, Green Bay, Wis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
M-28 Business (Newberry, Michigan)
Business M-28 (Bus. M-28) was a Michigan State Trunkline Highway System, state trunkline highway in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Upper Peninsula of Michigan. It served as a business route running for through the Newberry, Michigan, Newberry area. The business loop followed a U-shaped routing to connect downtown Newberry with M-28 (Michigan highway), M-28 south of town. It ran west of the city of Newberry, passing through the community of Dollarville, Michigan, Dollarville before entering downtown, turning south and ending near the county airport. Bus. M-28 was originally a section of M-28 before the latter was realigned in the late 1930s. The highway carried the M-28A designation before it was redesignated as Bus. M-28 in 1950. The trunkline was partially turned back to local control in 1953, and the business loop designation was removed at that time. The section of the roadway in downtown Newberry has carried several different designations in addition to the original M- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
M-28 (Michigan Highway)
M-28 is an east–west state trunkline highway that traverses nearly all of the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan, from Wakefield to near Sault Ste. Marie in Bruce Township. Along with US Highway 2 (US 2), M-28 forms a pair of primary highways linking the Upper Peninsula from end to end, providing a major access route for traffic from Michigan and Canada along the southern shore of Lake Superior. M-28 is the longest state trunkline in Michigan numbered with the "M-" prefix at . The entire highway is listed on the National Highway System, while three sections of M-28 are part of the Lake Superior Circle Tour. M-28 also carries two memorial highway designations along its route. Throughout its course across the Upper Peninsula, M-28 passes through forested woodlands, bog swamps, urbanized areas, and along the Lake Superior shoreline. Sections of roadway cross the Ottawa National Forest and both units of the Hiawatha National Forest. Some of the other landmarks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garnet, Michigan
Garnet ( ) is an unincorporated community in Mackinac County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The community is located within Hudson Township. As an unincorporated community, Garnet has no legally defined boundaries or population statistics of its own. History A railway line was constructed through the area as early as 1888, and the area soon received a railway depot. The Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad opened a railway stop under the name "Welch" in 1891. The community began to grow and included a sawmill and general store. A post office was opened on November 4, 1898. George Donaldson, who owned the general store, served as the community's first postmaster. By 1900, the population of Welch was around 500. The name of the post office was changed to Garnet on December 31, 1904. The community grew around the sawmill and also became a dairy producing area, as well as including its own school, hotel, saloon, and other businesses. In 1906, the Hudson Lumbe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DeTour Village, Michigan
DeTour Village ( ) is a village in Chippewa County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 263 at the 2020 census. The village is at the extreme eastern tip of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, in Detour Township, at the turning point for the shipping channel connecting the St. Mary's River with Lake Huron and the Straits of Mackinac. Drummond Island, one of the largest islands in the St. Mary's River, is only one mile across the river from DeTour. The DeTour Reef Light is nearby. History The place was originally an Ojibwe settlement. It was connected with the fur trade and over time it came to have a large Metis population. Over time the Metis inhabitants were redefined as being French-Canadian. The area was organized in 1850 as Warren Township, named after Ebenezer Warren, the first postmaster of the township. The settlement was called Warrenville on an 1848 map. The name was changed to Detour in 1856 when a new postmaster, Henry A. Williams, assumed office. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trout Lake, Michigan
Trout (: trout) is a generic common name for numerous species of carnivorous freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the genera ''Oncorhynchus'', ''Salmo'' and ''Salvelinus'', all of which are members of the subfamily Salmoninae in the family Salmonidae. The word ''trout'' is also used for some similar-shaped but non-salmonid fish, such as the spotted seatrout/speckled trout (''Cynoscion nebulosus'', which is actually a croaker). Trout are closely related to salmon and have similar migratory life cycles. Most trout are strictly potamodromous, spending their entire lives exclusively in freshwater lakes, rivers and wetlands and migrating upstream to spawn in the shallow gravel beds of smaller headwater creeks. The hatched fry and juvenile trout, known as ''alevin'' and ''parr'', will stay upstream growing for years before migrating down to larger waterbodies as maturing adults. There are some anadromous species of trout, such as the steelhead (a coastal subspecies of rain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federal Highway Administration
The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is a division of the United States Department of Transportation that specializes in highway transportation. The agency's major activities are grouped into two programs, the Federal-aid Highway Program and the Federal Lands Highway Program. Its role had previously been performed by the Office of Road Inquiry, Office of Public Roads and the Bureau of Public Roads. History Background With the coming of the bicycle in the 1890s, interest grew regarding the improvement of streets and roads in America. The traditional method of putting the burden on maintaining roads on local landowners was increasingly inadequate. In 1893, the federal Office of Road Inquiry (ORI) was founded; in 1905, it was renamed the Office of Public Roads (OPR) and made a division of the United States Department of Agriculture. Demands grew for local and state government to take charge. With the coming of the automobile, urgent efforts were made to upgrade and moderniz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
