Michigan Vacation
The state of Michigan is a USA state that many people want to visit. Some may want to see the tourist attractions and landscapes. Numerous tourists may want to see the state so they can see the theme parks, the landscapes, the islands, the sports and the cities or rural regions of the state. Some may want to visit the historic landmarks of the region. Some may want to tour the coast of Michigan. Some may want to tour the hills. Some may want to tour by boat the coastline.
Some may want to go on vacation to the state of Michigan. Some may want to stay at accommodation in the region.
Michigan is a Midwestern state of the USA. It was named after Lake Michigan, whose name is a French adaptation of the Ojibwe term mishigami, meaning large water or large lake.
Michigan
is the eighth most populous state in the USA. It has the longest freshwater shoreline
in the world, bounded by four of the five Great Lakes, plus Lake Saint Clair.
Michigan has many inland lakes. A person is never more than six miles from a natural
water source, or more than 87.2 miles from Great Lakes coastline.
The state
is the only state to consist entirely of two peninsulas. The Lower Peninsula,
to which the name Michigan was originally applied, is sometimes dubbed "the
mitten," owing to its shape. When asked where in Michigan one comes from,
a resident of the Lower Peninsula may often point to the corresponding part of
his or her hand. The Upper Peninsula (often referred to as The U.P.) is separated
from the Lower Peninsula by the Straits of Mackinac, a five mile wide channel
that joins Lake Huron to Lake Michigan. The Upper Peninsula (whose residents are
often called "Yoopers") is economically important for tourism and natural
resources.
The Upper and Lower Peninsulas are connected by the five mile long Mackinac Bridge, which is the third longest suspension bridge between anchorages in the world. The bridge has given rise to the nickname of "trolls" for residents of the Lower Peninsula, because they live under (south of) the bridge.
Michigan consists of two peninsulas that lie between 82°30' to about 90°30' west longitude, and are separated by the Straits of Mackinac. With the exception of two small areas that are drained by the Mississippi River by way of the Wisconsin River in the Upper Peninsula and by way of the Kankakee-Illinois River in the Lower Peninsula, Michigan is drained by the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence watershed and is the only state with the majority of its land such drained.
The Great Lakes that border Michigan from east to west are Lake Erie, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan and Lake Superior. It has more lighthouses than any other state. The state is bounded on the south by the states of Ohio and Indiana, sharing land and water boundaries with both. Michigan's western boundaries are almost entirely water boundaries, from south to north, with Illinois and Wisconsin in Lake Michigan; then a land boundary with Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula, that is principally demarcated by the Menominee and Montreal Rivers; then water boundaries again, in Lake Superior, with Wisconsin and Minnesota to the west, capped around by the Canadian province of Ontario to the north and east.
The northern boundary then runs completely through Lake Superior, from the western boundary with Minnesota to a point north of and around Isle Royale, thence traveling southeastward through the lake in a reasonably straight line to the Sault Ste. Marie area. Windsor, Ontario, once the south bank of Detroit, Upper Canada, has the distinction of being the only part of Canada which lies due south of a part of the lower 48 contiguous United States. In Southeastern Michigan there is a water boundary with Canada along the entire lengths of the St. Clair River, Lake St. Clair (including the First Nation reserve of Walpole Island) and the Detroit River). The southeastern boundary ends in the western end of Lake Erie with a three-way convergence of Michigan, Ohio and Ontario.
The heavily forested Upper Peninsula is relatively mountainous in the west. The Porcupine Mountains, which are part of one of the oldest mountain chains in the world, rise to an altitude of almost 2,000 feet above sea level and form the watershed between the streams flowing into Lake Superior and Lake Michigan. The surface on either side of this range is rugged. The state's highest point, in the Huron Mountains northwest of Marquette, is Mount Arvon at 1,979 feet. The peninsula is as large as Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island combined but has fewer than 330,000 inhabitants. They are sometimes called "Yoopers" (from "U.P.'ers"), and their speech ("Yooper dialect") has been heavily influenced by the numerous Scandinavian and Canadian immigrants who settled the area during the lumbering and mining boom of the late nineteenth century.
The Lower Peninsula, shaped like a mitten, is 277 miles long from north to south and 195 miles from east to west and occupies nearly two-thirds of the state's land area. The surface of the peninsula is generally level, broken by conical hills and glacial moraines usually not more than a few hundred feet tall. It is divided by a low water divide running north and south. The larger portion of the state is on the west of this and gradually slopes toward Lake Michigan. The highest point in the Lower Peninsula is either Briar Hill at 1,705 feet, or one of several points nearby in the vicinity of Cadillac. The lowest point is the surface of Lake Erie at 571 feet.
Detroit is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the seat of Wayne County. Detroit is a major port city on the Detroit River, in the Midwest region of the United States. Located north of Windsor, Ontario, Detroit is the only major U.S. city that looks south to Canada. It was founded on July 24, 1701 by the Frenchman Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac.
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