Michigan consists of two peninsulas separated by the Straits of Mackinac. The 45th parallel north runs through the state, marked by highway signs and the Polar-Equator Trail— along a line including Mission Point Light near Traverse City, the towns of Gaylord and Alpena in the Lower Peninsula and Menominee in the Upper Peninsula. With the exception of two tiny areas 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 thus drained. No point in the state is more than from a natural water source or more than from a Great Lakes shoreline.
Michigan consists of two peninsulas separated by the Straits of Mackinac The 45th parallel north runs through the state marked by highway signs and the Polar-Equator Trail— along a line including Mission Point Light near Traverse City the towns of Gaylord and Alpena in the Lower Peninsula and Menominee in the Upper Peninsula With the exception of two tiny areas 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 thus drained No point in the state is more than from a natural water source or more than from a Great Lakes shoreline