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Manistee Lake is a water body adjacent to the city of Manistee, Michigan. Its primary inlet, as well as its outlet, is the Manistee River , flowing to Lake Michigan . The tributary Little Manistee River enters the southeast end of the lake before the outlet.
The Manistee River (/ m æ n ɪ s t i / man-iss-TEE, seldom referred to as the Big Manistee River) is a 190-mile-long (310 km) [2] river in the Lower Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. The river rises in the Northern Lower Peninsula, and flows in a generally southwesterly direction to its mouth at Lake Michigan at the eponymous city of ...
The Little Manistee River is a 64.6-mile-long (104.0 km) [1] tributary of the Manistee River in Michigan. It rises in the southeast corner of Ellsworth Township in Lake County and flows west-northwest to its mouth at the southeast end of Manistee Lake in Manistee County.
Over 40 charter fishing boats [54] operate on Lake Michigan from Manistee County ports. Fishing in the Manistee River can yield salmon and steelhead. [55] Because a large portion of the county is public land, hunting is popular. Filmmaker Michael Moore visited Manistee in February 2011 to support the restoration of the Vogue Theatre in downtown ...
Manistee Lake is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Kalkaska County in the U.S. state of Michigan. At the 2010 census , the CDP had a population of 456. Manistee Lake is located within Coldsprings Township to the north and a small portion extending south into Excelsior Township .
Manistique Lake, locally called Big Manistique Lake [2] to distinguish it from the other lakes in the Manistique Lakes system, is a 10,130-acre (4,100 ha) lake in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. Approximately 6.5 miles (10.5 km) long and 4 miles (6.4 km) wide, it is one of the largest lakes in the Upper Peninsula.
The Lake was first identified as Portage Lake in 1837, when Joseph Stronach named the natural stream at Portage Point that flowed into Lake Michigan as Portage Creek. In that same year, the U.S. Government survey identified the lake as "O-nek-a-ma-engk or Portage Lake". The 26th Congress first published this survey information.
M-22 begins five miles (8.0 km) north of Manistee and goes through Onekama and Arcadia, paralleling the Lake Michigan shoreline and offering a scenic route. M-55 begins two miles (3.2 km) north of Manistee and runs across the Lower Peninsula to Tawas City via Cadillac, Lake City, Houghton Lake, and West Branch.