In the northernmost 21 counties in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan, the total population of the region is 506,658 people. Downtown Petoskey, the sixth-largest city. View of Manistee, the fifth-largest city.
Downtown Ludington, the fourth-largest city. Alpena City Hall in Alpena, the third-largest city in the region. Downtown Cadillac, the second-largest city in Northern Michigan. Population View of downtown Traverse City, the largest city in Northern Michigan. The high is 112 ☏ or 44.4 ☌ set in Mio on July 13, 1936, and the low is −51 ☏ or −46.1 ☌ set in Vanderbilt on February 9, 1934. Both the high and low temperature records for all of Michigan are held by communities in Northern Lower Michigan. Snowfall varies throughout the region due to lake-effect snow from the prevailing westerly winds off of Lake Michigan: average yearly snow ranges from 141.4 inches or 3.59 metres in Gaylord to 52.4 inches or 1.33 metres in Harrisville. When the spring rains come, many roads and bridges become impassable due to flooding or muddy to the point a four-wheel drive cannot pass. With the expansive hardwood forest in Northern Michigan, "fall color" tourists are found throughout the area in early to mid-autumn. The region has the four seasons in their extremes, with sometimes hot and humid summer days (although, mild in comparison to some parts of the south) to subzero days in winter. Large lakes were created by glacial action. A large portion of the area is the so-called Grayling outwash plain, which consists of broad outwash plain including sandy ice-disintegration ridges jack pine barrens, some white pine-red pine forest, and northern hardwood forest. Glaciers shaped the area, creating a unique regional ecosystem. Lake effect weather brings significant snowfalls to snow belt areas of Northern Michigan. Northern Michigan soils tend to be coarser, and the growing season is shorter with a cooler climate. Southern Michigan forests were primarily deciduous with oaks, red maple, shagbark hickory, basswood and cottonwood which are uncommon further north. North of the line the historic presettlement forests were beech and sugar maple, mixed with hemlock, white pine, and yellow birch which only grew on moist soils further south. A tension zone is identified running from Muskegon to Saginaw Bay marked by a change in soil type and common tree species. The geographical theme of this region is shaped by rolling hills, Great Lakes shorelines including coastal dunes on the west coast, large inland lakes, numerous rivers and large forests. Other definitions of Northern Michigan Īll of the northern Lower Peninsula – north of a line from Manistee County on the west to Iosco County on the east (the second orange tier up on the map) – is considered to be part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gaylord.
The two regions are connected by the 5-mile-long Mackinac Bridge. They insist the region must only be referred to as "Northern Lower Michigan", and this can sometimes become a topic of contention between people who are from different Peninsulas. city of Marquette), and is instead regarded by Michigan residents as a distinct region of the state, although residents of the Upper Peninsula often say that "Northern Michigan" is not in the Lower Peninsula.
Despite its geographic location as the most northerly part of Michigan, the Upper Peninsula is not usually included in the definition of Northern Michigan (although Northern Michigan University is located in the U.P. Definition excludes the Upper Peninsula Īcross the Straits of Mackinac, to the north, west, and northeast, lies the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (the "U.P."). One other such sign is in Menominee, Michigan, in the Upper Peninsula. where such signs or monuments are known to exist. 131 Highway (approximately two miles north of County Road 42, with signs on both sides of the highway) Gaylord Atlanta and Alpena. Signs in the Lower Peninsula that mark that line are at Mission Point Light (just north of Traverse City) Suttons Bay Cairn Highway in Kewadin Alba, Michigan, on U.S. The 45th parallel runs across Northern Michigan. Some residents in the southern part of the state consider its southern limit to be just north of Flint, Port Huron, and Grand Rapids, but more northern residents restrict it to the area north of Mount Pleasant : the "fingers" of the mitten-like shape of the Lower Peninsula. The southern boundary of the region is not precisely defined. See also: Protected areas of Michigan and Michigan § Geography Boundary description Northern Michigan is at the northern tip of Michigan's Lower Peninsula.
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