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Grand Marais (/ ɡ r æ n d ˈ m ə ˈ r eɪ / grand mə-RAY) is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Alger County in the U.S. state of Michigan. [3] It is located within Burt Township on the shores of Lake Superior , and the community is the eastern gateway to the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore via H-58 .
Grand Marais/Cook County Seaplane Base covers an area of 6 acres (2.4 ha) at an elevation of 1,635 feet (498 m) above mean sea level.It has two seaplane landing areas: 9/27 is 15,000 x 1,500 feet (4,572 x 457 m) and 3/21 is 3,000 x 2,000 feet (914 x 610 m).
Burt Township is a civil township of Alger County in the U.S. state of Michigan.As of the 2020 census, its population was 411. [3]The township contains the community of Grand Marais, which contains numerous historic structures, including the Pickle Barrel House and the Grand Marais Harbor of Refuge Inner and Outer Lights.
The forest covers 3.9 million acres (6,100 mi 2 or 16,000 km 2), and has over 445,000 acres (1,800 km 2) of water. [4] Its waters include some 2,000 lakes and rivers, [5] more than 1,300 miles (2,100 km) of cold water streams, and 950 miles (1,530 km) of warm water streams. [6]
The Boundary Waters region is characterized by a vast network of waterways and bogs within a glacially-carved landscape of Precambrian bedrock covered in thin soils and boreal forests. The Boundary Waters is a popular destination for recreationalists pursuing camping , canoeing , and fishing as well as for those simply looking for natural ...
Heading north on M-77 midway between Seney and Grand Marais in autumn. Grand Marais is situated on the shores of Lake Superior some 25 miles (40 km) north of the mainline of the Lake Superior Circle Tour. Since the Tour runs only along state trunklines in Michigan, a Scenic Spur of the tour was created to route traffic north from Seney to Grand ...
In late 1961, about three miles (4.8 km) was paved to the west of Grand Marais. [21] [22] The county-designated highway system was created around October 5, 1970, [2] and the section of H-58 was shown on state maps for the first time in 1971. Initially, only the section between Grand Marais and Deer Park was marked as part of H-58. [23]
Map of Grand Marais Harbor. In the 1870s, shipping traffic through Lake Superior increased tremendously. [6] Realizing the lack of a safe harbor between Whitefish Bay and Grand Island, the Army Corps of Engineers began upgrading the harbor at Grand Marais in 1881. Over the next ten years, the Corps dredged the harbor and constructed a 5,770 ...