Detourmap
Places worth the detour in Michigan
Detourmap lists 72 places in Michigan, United States, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Lake Superior. 62 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.
- Places
- 72
- Oldest
- Fort St. Joseph 1680
- Little known
- 62 of 72
- Share of United States
- 2%
Michigan 72
All 72, best known first.
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5.Isle Royale National Park
Nature · 20th century · Notable
United States National Park on Isle Royale in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
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10.Tahquamenon Falls
Nature · Notable
Two waterfalls in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, United States
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13.Grand Traverse Bay
Nature · Hidden gem
Bay on Lake Michigan in Grand Traverse County, Michigan, United States
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32.River Raisin National Battlefield Park
Archaeological · 21st century · Hidden gem
National park in Michigan, USA
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34.Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge
Nature · 21st century · Hidden gem
The only international wildlife refuge in North America, jointly administered by US and Canadian federal authorities
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38.SS Choctaw
Archaeological · 19th century · Hidden gem
Unique semi-whaleback steamship ship wrecked in Lake Huron in 1915
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39.SS Cumberland
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Wooden-hulled side paddlewheeler wrecked in Lake Superior
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40.SS Glenlyon
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Freighter sunk off the shore of Isle Royale in Lake Superior
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42.Cliffs Shaft Mine Museum
Archaeological · 19th century · Hidden gem
Former mine, now a museum in Ishpeming, Michigan, USA
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43.Minong Mine Historic District
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Archaeological site in Michigan, United States
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45.Sanilac Petroglyphs Historic State Park
Archaeological · 20th century · Hidden gem
Archaeological protected area in Michigan, USA
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47.Arch Rock (Mackinac Island)
Nature · Hidden gem
Rock formation on Mackinac Island, Michigan, U.S.
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50.F. T. Barney
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Schooner whose wreck is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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51.SS Pewabic
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Package freighter that served ports on the Upper Great Lakes
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56.Cliff mine
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Former copper mine in the Copper Country of the state of Michigan in the United States
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58.Cascade Falls
Nature · 20th century · Hidden gem
Man-made, illuminated and choreographed waterfall in Cascade Falls Park, Jackson, Michigan
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63.Robert Stuart House
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Mackinac Island, Michigan, NRHP-listed in Mackinac County
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65.Robert J. Whaley House
Archaeological · 19th century · Hidden gem
Historic house museum in Flint, Michigan
Elsewhere in United States
Questions about this page
What is the best known place worth the detour in Michigan?
Lake Superior. Largest of the Great Lakes of North America. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.
How many places worth the detour are there in Michigan?
72: 37 archaeological & historic sites and 35 nature & landscapes. 62 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.
What is the oldest place on this map in Michigan?
Fort St. Joseph, dated to 1680. 11 of the 72 places here carry a founding date at all.
What counts as Michigan here?
Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Michigan if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Michigan is a first-level division of United States, the same level as a state or a province.
Where does this information come from?
Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.