FUN FACTS
By: Mandy Hlad

• Michigan's name comes from the Indian words "Michi-Gama" which means large lakes.
• The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor is the oldest state university in the US.
• There are 90 state parks, six state forests, three national forests and three national parks.
• Michigan has more freshwater coastline than any other state.
• Michigan has more than 11, 000 island lakes and more than 36, 000 miles of streams.
• Big Mac, arching five miles over the Straits of Mackinac to connect the Upper and Lower Peninsulas, is one of the world's greatest bridges.
• Michigan's Upper Peninsula is as big as Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island combined.
• Stand anywhere in Michigan and you are within 85 miles of one of the Great Lakes.
• Michigan is the only state that touches four of the five great lakes.
• The Michigan State Fair was the first state fair in the United States.
• Michigan has the world's highest man-made ski jump at Pine Mountain Lodge in Iron Mountain, and the only ski flying hill in the western hemisphere, Copper Peak in Ironwood.
• Michigan is the automotive capital of the world.
• Michigan ranks #2 in the nation in the production of sweet cherries, prunes, plums, red kidney beans and gladiolas.

This site shows great pictures of Mackinac.

www.greatlakeslighthouses.com/background provided from this site.