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Michigan is surrounded by four Great Lakes with miles of shoreline, waterfalls, highest sand dunes, pine forests and miles of beaches. Michigan has two peninsulas each surrounded by Great Lakes shoreline connected by the five mile Mackinaw bridge. Vacationing in Michigan depends on what you like to do: Camping, boating and swimming in the summer months around early June to early September; Fall colors are beautiful during the months of September and October; Winter with its many ski slopes and snow mobile trails last from December until early March .

Michigan's motto is "Si Quaeris Peninsulam Amoenam Circumspice"
If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look about you"

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SOME MICHIGAN TRIVIA:

The Mackinaw bridge that spans 5 miles is one of the longest suspension bridges in the world that connects the upper and lower peninsulas of Michigan;

The world's largest limestone quarry is in Rogers City;

Detroit is known as the car capital of the world;

Michigan has the longest freshwater shoreline in the world;

Michigan has more than 11,000 inland lakes and more than 36,000 miles of streams;

Isle Royale National Park shelters one of the largest moose herds remaining in the United States;

The Upper Michigan Copper Country is the largest commercial deposit of native copper in the world;

The mile long Detroit-Windsor tunnel, under the Detroit River, was the first auto traffic tunnel built between two nations;

Packard Motor Car Company in Detroit manufactured the first air-conditioned car in 1939;

Alpena is the home of the world's largest cement plant;

The The Sleeping Bear Dunes rises 460 feet above Lake Michigan;

The 38th president of the United States, Gerald R. Ford, grew up in Grand Rapids and became;

The American Museum of Magic is the largest privately owned museum in Marshall Michigan;

Grand Rapids has a 24-foot Leonardo da Vinci horse, called Il Gavallo, it is the largest equestrian bronze sculpture in the Western Hemisphere;

The Detroit Zoo was the first zoo in America to feature animals to roam cageless and open-exhibits;

Vernor's ginger ale was created in Detroit in 1866 and became the first soda pop made in the United States;

Michigan is often called the "Wolverine State" there are no longer any wolverines in Michigan;

Michigan's state stone is The Petoskey stone and is found along the shores of Lake Michigan;