About the Navigating North Northern ’s scenic Inland Waterway he closest communities to the Inland Waterway Tinclude Petoskey, Harbor Springs, Indian River and INLAND he first known improvement to the Inland Water- Cheboygan. Highways into the area include I-75 and Tway occurred in 1874 - the clearing of a sandbar at U.S. 31. The Web site, www.fishweb.com, has extensive the head of the Indian River. Prior to this time, the information about each of the waters along the route, lodging, boat service and rentals, boat ramps and related WATERWAY waterway was being used by Native Americans in canoes as a means of travel across the Northern end of the information. Lower Peninsula. During the lumbering era, the route was used extensively for transportation of products and people to the many resorts in the area. Since then, the 38 miles of connected lakes Inland Waterway has become one of the more popular and rivers through Emmet boat trips to be found anywhere in the country. and Cheboygan Counties Navigation notes: From in Conway (Em- met County), the navigable waters flow toward Lake Hu- ron. Passing from lake to river, the water drops 18 inches at the Crooked River Lock. Through Alanson, past its quaint swing bridge, and north into Hay Lake (a marsh two miles long), the waters continue to flow northeast- erly. At Devil’s Elbow and at the Oxbow, the Crooked For information about Northern River lives up to its name. Here, on the forested banks, Front Cover 4” deer browse, herons gather and autumn creates a display Michigan, complimentary maps and more: of irresistible color. Boaters will pass through Maple Bay in , Michigan’s fifth-largest lakemeasured ( by (231) 348-1704 acreage). [email protected] Past the homes of Indian Point, along the base of www.emmetcounty.org Griswold Mountain and at the foot of the crucifix of the Indian River Shrine, the waters move toward Indian River. This meandering river is now flowing through the pretty resort town bearing its name, under I-75, through a marshland filled with swans and north into (Cheboygan County). The waters move more swiftly as they enter the Cheboy- Approx. maximum depths & acreages gan River, past the towering pines of Strawberry Island Mullett Lake: 120 feet ▫ 17,360 acres and onto the Black River. Wider now, the river slows and Burt Lake: 73 feet ▫ 17,120 acres locks lower your boat 15 feet to the level of , Crooked Lake: 61 feet ▫ 2,300 acres which is 1.5 miles away through the town of Cheboygan. Pickerel Lake: 70 feet ▫ 1,080 acres LOCK INFO The Crooked River Lock is opearated by Emmet Coun- ore to know: There are 17 species of fish in the lakes ty and owned by the Army Corps of Engineers. It opens Mand rivers, from trout to pike, bass to perch, the second weekend of April and closes the last week- walleye, muskie and lake sturgeon. For those boaters end in October annually. The Lock is planning to pass through the Crooked River Lock, the operated by the DNR. The lock schedules and rates are Lock chamber is 17 feet wide and approximately 60 www.emmetcounty.org online: www.michigan.gov. feet long. INLAND WATERWAY Lake Huron Facts: CHEBOYGAN CHEBOYGAN  150 miles of shoreline, approximately 38 miles of rivers/lakes LOCK & DAM Lake Huron  dredged to 5 foot, width of 30 feet by U.S. Corps. of Engineers (subject to shoaling) INLAND WATERWAY  CHEBOYGAN route completely laid out with channel markers; Facts: Cheboygan CHEBOYGAN river entrances marked with flashing lights  150 mileMs uolfl estht oLraekleine, approRxiivmear tely 38 miles of rivers/lakes LOCK & DAM  accessible from I-75, US-27, M-33 and US-31  dredgedto t oC 5h efbooyt,g wanidth of 30 feet by U.S. Corps. of Engineers (subject to shoaling)  approx. 5 miles  ramps with varying water depths available all along the waterway route completely laid out with channel markers; Cheboygan Black Mullett Lake  2 state parks along the route, Aloha , on Mullett Lake, and river entrances marked with flasRhiivnegr lights River  accessible from I-75, US-27, M-33 and US-31 to Cheboygan ,on Burt Lake, and 1 state forest campground at approx. 5 miles Maple Bay on Burt Lake  ramps with varying water depths available all along the waterway Black  2 state parks along the route, , on Mullett Lake, and River Burt Lake State Park,on Burt Lake, and 1 state forest campground at Maple Bay on Burt Lake

U.S. Government Chart # 14886 of this Michigan Inland Route is To Aloha available for purchase at the Marina. Mackinac State Park Bridge MuUll.Se. tGtovernment Chart # 14886 25 miles Laofk theis Michigan Inland Route is To Aloha available for purchase at the Marina. Mackinac State Park Maple Bay Bridge Mullett

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Lake Visit the Inland 5 7 - Lake Pic3k/2e00r7el To I MDNR map Lake Detroit Water Route Historical Museum 3/2007 River Street, Alanson www.iwrhs.com