Grand Marais
Grand Marais is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Alger County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is located within Burt Township on the shores of Lake Superior, and the community is the eastern gateway to the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore via H-58.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 234 residents
- Description: unincorporated community in Michigan, United States
- Also known as: “Grand Marais, MI” and “Grand Marais, Michigan”
- Postal code: 49839
Places of Interest
Highlights include Pickle Barrel House and Grand Marais Harbor of Refuge Inner and Outer Lights.
Pickle Barrel House
Museum
The Pickle Barrel House is a two-story cabin built to in the shape of two barrels. The house design is based on the artwork of William Donahey, an author-illustrator who created the Teenie Weenies cartoon characters that were two inches tall and lived under a rose bush in a pickle barrel.
Grand Marais Harbor of Refuge Inner and Outer Lights
Lighthouse
Photo: Notorious4life, CC0.
The Grand Marais Harbor of Refuge Inner and Outer Lights are a pair of lighthouses located on the west pier at the entry to Grand Marais Harbor of Refuge, in Grand Marais, Michigan. They were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.
Grand Marais
- Categories: census-designated place in the United States and locality
- Location: Burt Township, Alger, Michigan, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
46.67097° or 46° 40′ 16″ northLongitude
-85.984° or 85° 59′ 2″ westPopulation
234Elevation
627 feet (191 metres)Open location code
86RPM2C8+9COpenStreetMap ID
node 153628904OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
4994347Wikidata ID
Q1803852
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Volapük—“Grand Marais” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “大馬雷”
- Dutch: “Grand Marais”
- French: “Grand Marais”
- Gilaki: “گرند مارا (ميشيگان)”
- Gilaki: “گرند مارا”
- Irish: “Grand Marais”
- Ladin: “Grand Marais”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Grand Marais”
- Norwegian: “Grand Marais”
- Persian: “گرند ماریاس، میشیگان”
- Persian: “گرند ماریاس”
- South Azerbaijani: “قرند ماریاس، میشیقان”
- Spanish: “Grand Marais (Míchigan)”
- Spanish: “Grand Marais”
- Turkish: “Grand Marais”
- Volapük: “Grand Marais”
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