The Crooked River (Michigan) is a river in Emmet and Cheboygan counties in the U.S. state of

Michigan Michigan ( ) is a peninsular U.S. state, state in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest, Upper Midwestern United States. It shares water and land boundaries with Minnesota to the northwest, Wisconsin to the west, ...

. It is a short stream, long,U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data
The National Map
, accessed November 21, 2011 flowing northeast from Crooked Lake at near Alanson into

Burt Lake Burt Lake is a lake in Cheboygan County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The western shore of the lake is on the boundary with Emmet County. The lake is named after William Austin Burt, who, together with John Mullett, made a federal survey of ...

at . It forms part of the

Inland Waterway A waterway is any navigable body of water. Broad distinctions are useful to avoid ambiguity, and disambiguation will be of varying importance depending on the nuance of the equivalent word in other ways. A first distinction is necessary bet ...

of Michigan. The river is the subject of the

Sufjan Stevens Sufjan Stevens ( ; born July 1, 1975) is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He has released ten solo studio albums and multiple collaborative albums with other artists. Stevens has received Grammy and Academy Award nomina ...

song "Alanson, Crooked River" from his 2003 album

References

Rivers of Michigan Rivers of Emmet County, Michigan Rivers of Cheboygan County, Michigan {{Michigan-river-stub