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The Portage Lake Lift Bridge (officially the Houghton–Hancock Bridge [3]) connects the cities of Hancock and Houghton, in the US state of Michigan.It crosses Portage Lake, a portion of the waterway which cuts across the Keweenaw Peninsula with a canal linking the final several miles to Lake Superior to the northwest.
Bete Grise (from the French Bête grise, "Gray Beast") is a nature preserve on Keweenaw Peninsula, in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, beach and bay on Lake Superior. It is located in Grant Township south of the community of Bete Grise. Local legend holds that the sand of the beach "sings".
Keweenaw National Historical Park is a unit of the U.S. National Park Service. Established in 1992, the park celebrates the life and history of the Keweenaw Peninsula in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is a federal-local cooperative park made up of two primary units, the Calumet Unit and the Quincy Unit, and almost two ...
Lake Fanny Hooe is a 227-acre (92 ha) lake in Keweenaw County, Michigan. [1] The Garden Brook connects Lake Fanny Hooe to Lake Superior, 800 feet (240 m) to the north.The community of Copper Harbor lies to the north west side of the lake. [2]
The Keweenaw Waterway is a partly natural, partly artificial waterway which cuts across the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan; it separates Copper Island from the mainland. Parts of the waterway are variously known as the Keweenaw Waterway, Portage Canal , Portage Lake Canal , Portage River , Lily Pond , Torch Lake , and Portage Lake .
The Keweenaw Peninsula (/ ˈ k iː w ə n ɔː /, KEE-wə-naw) is a peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. Part of the greater landmass of the Upper Peninsula , the Keweenaw Peninsula projects about 65 miles (105 km) northeasterly into Lake Superior , forming Keweenaw Bay .
Bete Grise is an unincorporated community in Grant Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan. [1] The community lies on the shore of Lake Superior. [2] The community is located on the north side of Bete Grise Bay. The Mendota Canal cuts the bay in half, which allows travel from Lac La Belle to Lake Superior.
Relative to other communities in the Keweenaw, Copper Harbor is 9 miles (14.5 km) from Mandan, 12 miles (19.3 km) north of Delaware, and 16 miles (25.7 km) east of Eagle Harbor. The village of Ahmeek is the nearest incorporated community at 30 miles (48.3 km) to the southwest.