geography

From Lake Michigan to Lake Erie, the Indiana and Ohio lines, there are 4 distinct points to know on Michigan's southern border.

A Michigan resident's perspective on the American Midwest sparks debate on Reddit

When you have spent as much time surrounded by the Great Lakes as we have here in Michigan, it's easy to think you know it all.

Michigan's time zone boundary gives us a geographic oddity - the westernmost point of the Eastern Time Zone in the United States.

Mount Arvon in northern Michigan's Huron Mountains has always been considered the highest point in the state. Surprisingly, that high point has been replaced by a pile of mining waste from the Tiden Mine near Ishpeming.

Maybe being "Up North" is just a state of mind, when you consider how many spots in the Upper Peninsula area actually south of the Mackinac Bridge.

From the Toledo War to a 1973 Supreme Court Case, the Michigan-Ohio border is one of the most contested in American history. The reason? The point that was to mark the beginning of the border is lost forever.

Michigan has an area some call the peninsula's "continental divide" where the waters part to flow toward either Lake Michigan or Lake Huron.