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Gaylord is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is the county seat of Otsego County. It is a well known ciy in the region.
Gaylord has often styled itself as an Alpine Village and the city center features many buildings with Tyrolean traverse style motifs. Receiving abundant snowfall and experiencing mild summer temperatures, in recent years the area around Gaylord has become known for its many skiing and golf resorts, one of the largest such concentrations in the Midwest. Gaylord features an annual event in July known as the Alpenfest. Participants are encouraged to dress in traditional Swiss stylings.
Gaylord is also seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gaylord; it is by far the smallest settlement serving as the location of an active Roman Catholic cathedral in the United States.
The city of
Gaylord experiences heavy lake effect snow during the winter and is in the middle
of the Northern Michigan snowbelt.
Highway signs denote that Gaylord rests
on the 45th Parallel Line, halfway between the equator and the North Pole. This
is one of 26 places in the U.S.A. where such signs are known to exist.
It
is considered to be part of Northern Michigan.
Hartwick Pines State Park
The Huron-Manistee National Forests is nearby.
Gaylord Regional Airport
Otsego may be a Native American name meaning "place of the rock". However, an alternative theory is that it derives from a lake and a county in New York state, which are said to bear the name derived from a Mohawk Iroquoian word meaning either "clear water" or "meeting place." It may be neologism coined by Henry Schoolcraft, who was a borrower of words and pieces of words from many languages (including Arabic, Greek, Latin, and various American Indian dialects). See, List of Michigan county name etymologies. The county was set off in 1840 as Okkuddo (meaning 'Sickly water' -- the reason for the name is lost). The name was changed to Otsego in 1843. It was organized in 1875.
Otsego County has more than 370 lakes. Most of the lakes are in the southern part of the county. Three miles south of Gaylord, Otsego Lake, is the county's largest, and has a surface area of 1,972 acres. Other large lakes in the southern part of the county include Big Lake, Big Bear Lake, Buhl Lake, Crapo Lake, Dixon Lake, Douglas Lake, Guthrie Lake, Heart Lake, Lake Tecon, Manuka Lake, Opal Lake, Pencil Lake, and Turtle Lake. The larger lakes in the northern part of the county are Five Lakes, Hardwood Lake, Lake Twenty Seven, and Pickerel Lake. Many of these are so-called 'kettle lakes,' formed by the melting of blocks of glacial ice, left as the glacier retreated, which created a depression in the soil.
Glaciers shaped the area, creating a unique regional ecosystem. A large portion of the area is the so-called Grayling outwash plain, which consists of broad outwash plain including sandy ice-disintegration ridges; jack pine barrens, some white pine red pine forest, and northern hardwood forest. Large lakes were created by glacial action.
Headwaters of the Au Sable, Black, Manistee, Pigeon, and Sturgeon Rivers are in
Otsego County. The Au Sable River watershed is the largest watershed in the county.
These watersheds drain large portions of the county, and are significant to the
environment and a foundation of its habitat.
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