Hurricane River
Appearance
Hurricane River | |
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Location | |
Country | United States |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | |
• location | Burt Township, Alger County, Michigan |
• coordinates | 46°36′19″N 86°05′46″W / 46.60525°N 86.096°W[1] |
Mouth | |
• location | Lake Superior, Michigan |
• coordinates | 46°39′58″N 86°10′05″W / 46.66607°N 86.16794°W |
Length | 6.4 mi (10.3 km) |
The Hurricane River is a 6.4-mile-long (10.3 km)[2] river in Alger County in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the United States. It empties into Lake Superior in the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. There is a campground at the mouth of the river which is also the beginning of a trail that leads past various old shipwrecks to the historic Au Sable Lighthouse.[3] The mouth of the river is also very near the eastern end of a stretch of relatively straight shoreline known as Twelvemile Beach.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Hurricane River". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed January 3, 2012
- ^ Pure Michigan [1] accessed March 25, 2011
External links
[edit]Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hurricane River.
- Michigan Streamflow Data from the USGS
- Information on campgrounds in the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore