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Fun Facts about Michigan
Home » Michigan » Michigan Overview and History » Fun Facts about Michigan• The state bird is the robin, and the state flower is the apple blossom.
• You are never more than six miles from a lake or stream in Michigan.
• Vernor's ginger ale was created in Detroit and became the first soda pop made in the United States.
• The first auto traffic tunnel built between two nations was the mile-long Detroit-Windsor tunnel under the Detroit River.
• Michigan ranks third in the nation in apple production with 500 million pounds and leads the nation in Jonathans and Northern Spys.
• Michigan leads the nation in the number of state parks and prepared campsites.
• Michigan has the only state highway where automobiles are banned-- M-185 around Mackinac Island.
• The Detroit River is a segment of the international border between Canada and the U.S. and marks the only point where Canada lies directly south of the U.S.
• Detroit is home to the oldest state fair in the nation, first held in 1849.
• Detroit has the second tallest hotel in North America - the Detroit Marriott Renaissance Center, at 73 stories.
• The Kellogg Company has made Battle Creek the Cereal Capital of the World.
• Standing anywhere in the state a person is within 85 miles of one of the Great Lakes.
• Grand Rapids is home to the 24-foot Leonardo da Vinci horse, displayed at Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park. It is the largest equestrian bronze sculpture in the Western Hemisphere.
• Most of Michigan is in the Eastern Time zone, except for four counties in the western Upper Peninsula that share their southern border with the state of Wisconsin. They are in the U.S. Central Time zone. The counties are Gogebic, Iron, Dickinson and Menominee Counties.
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