Grayling, Michigan Grayling, Michigan Location of Grayling, Michigan Location of Grayling, Michigan Website The City of Grayling, Michigan Grayling / re l e/ is a town/city in the U.S.
State of Michigan and the governmental center of county of Crawford County. The populace was 1,884 at the 2010 census.
Grayling is surrounded by Grayling Township.
Grayling is perhaps most famous for hosting the Au Sable River Canoe Marathon in July of every year since 1947.
The town/city is titled after the Grayling species of fish once abundant in the Au Sable River, although the species has long since been extinct in the region The barns platted out 40 acres (where Grayling now stands), naming it "Crawford." Fish swimming in the river were identified as grayling fish, and it is said that the inhabitants preferred the name "Grayling" to the name "Crawford," and retitled the region after the fish. Grayling's access to two primary rivers (Au Sable River and Manistee River), and the existence of the vast forest around it, made it meaningful in the lumber era.
Grayling had other names through the years.
Lumbering practices finished Arctic Grayling breeding grounds in rivers and contributed to their slow diminish and eventual disappearance from Northern Michigan.
The Arctic grayling that had inhabited much of Northern Michigan was eventually wiped out.
The logging practice of using river beds to move logs in the springtime finished the breeding grounds for these fish. Before they could recover, non-native sport fish such as brook trout were introduced in the 1890s and competed with the grayling for food.
The Grayling Fish Hatchery was established in 1914 by timber baron Rasmus Hanson (1846 1927). He hoped to restore the grayling to the Au Sable River system; ironically its disappearance was caused, at least in part, by the massive surrounding destruction caused by logging, which was the origin of Mr.
Other famous contributors to the initial costs of the Hatchery encompassed Henry Ford, Edsel Ford, and Thomas Edison. The grayling became extinct in Michigan.
In 1995 the State of Michigan sold the property to Crawford County.
An meaningful person in the history of Grayling is Rasmus Hanson.
Along with being one of three lumber barons of Northern Michigan, Hanson owned the Michigan Sugar Company and the Bay City Sugar Company.
In 1916, he donated 13,826 acres of cut-over territory in Crawford County to the state of Michigan for use as a forest game preserve and military reservation.
The region south of Lake Margrethe (named with respect to Hanson's wife, Margrethe) continues to be used as a National Guard base that serves Michigan, Ohio and Indiana guards. Since 1947 Grayling has been the starting point of the Au Sable River Canoe Marathon, which is held every year on the last weekend of July. This is the longest non-stop canoe race in North America.
The middle branch of the Au Sable River passes through the city.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 2.04 square miles (5.28 km2), of which 2.01 square miles (5.21 km2) is territory and 0.03 square miles (0.08 km2) is water. Nearby Camp Grayling (donated by Rasmus Hanson) is the nation's biggest National Guard training site and the biggest military installation east of the Mississippi River.
Hartwick Pines State Park is just 7 miles (11 km) north and northeast of Grayling.
If one travels to the east out of the town/city along the Au Sable River, one encounters North Down River Road, which runs alongside to it.
Much of the region sits on the "Grayling outwash plain", a unique surrounding titled for the city. In the city, the populace was spread out with 26.1% under the age of 18, 7.7% from 18 to 24, 24.5% from 25 to 44, 19.1% from 45 to 64, and 22.5% who were 65 years of age or older.
It is an meaningful attraction of Camp Grayling, and was titled after the wife of Rasmus Hanson.
It is a favorite fishing and recreation lake for soldiers in their off-duty hours, but also sees much use from region residents, campers and tourists, who access it from the state forest campground positioned at the lake's northwest corner.
See also List of Historical Markers in Crawford County, Michigan.
Grayling is the starting point for the Weyerhauser Au Sable River Canoe Marathon which runs 120 miles (190 km) from Grayling to Oscoda, Michigan.
Kirtland Center for the Performing Arts, positioned at the Kirtland Community College in Roscommon, Michigan hosts many visiting performers, including regular visits from The Second City traveling ensemble. Grayling is noted as the "Canoe Capital of the World".
There are three canoe liveries that operate on the Au Sable River in Grayling; Carlisle's Canoe, Penrods Resort, and Borchers Canoe & Kayak, the Manistee River is positioned just west of Grayling.
It is blessed with two of the top-rated cross nation venues in Michigan, namely Hartwick Pines State Park Trails and Mason Tract Pathway. Forbush corners in close-by Frederic, Michigan is a world-recognized center for education and training in cross nation skiing, and benefits from early and late snow due to a 'snow belt micro climate.' Grayling is a hotbed of fly fishing and angling on the edge of some world class streams, rivers and lakes.
Particularly notable are two close-by rivers which alongside each other: the Au Sable River which runs East to Lake Huron and the Manistee River which runs West to Lake Michigan.
Michigan Shore to Shore Riding & Hiking Trail passes through Grayling.
It also is the home to the Au Sable River Canoe Marathon, the world's longest nonstop canoe race.
Camp Grayling is a Michigan National Guard training facility positioned near the city.
The Crawford Au - Sable School District is the major school precinct for the county, serving the town/city of Grayling as well the close-by community.
In 2013 Grayling High School was ranked at 1503 on Newsweek's America's best high school rating, which rated the top 2000 enhance high schools in the US based on graduation rate, college acceptance rate, AP tests taken per student, average AP scores, number of students enrolled in AP courses, and average SAT/ACT scores.
The Crawford County Avalanche is the journal of record for Crawford County, and is presented in Grayling, Michigan. Grayling is 4 miles (6.4 km) north of the confluence of two primary north south freeways: I-75 and US 127, and the junction with M-72, an east west cross-peninsular state highway route.
M-72 passes through the town/city and is one of three state highway routes that runs east west athwart the entire lower peninsula, from Empire on Lake Michigan to Grayling and east to Harrisville on Lake Huron.
M-93 is an 11-mile (18 km) route connecting the chief gate of Michigan Army National Guard's Camp Grayling, 4 miles (6.4 km) southwest of Grayling, with Hartwick Pines State Park, 7 miles (11 km) northeast of Grayling.
"Michigan Grayling Only a Memory".
"Profile for Grayling, Michigan, MI".
"Grayling Area Visitors Bureau.".
"Formerly in Great Lakes basin, Michigan" (with map showing Northern Michigan highlighted) "Michigan Grayling Only a Memory".
"By the 1890s the grayling were all but gone due in part to over fishing, commercial lumbering and the introduction of non-native brook trout.
"Grayling Recreation Authority, fish hatchery.".
"Au - Sable River Canoe Marathon".
"Grayling, Michigan Koppen Climate Classification (Weatherbase)".
Grayling Area Visitors Bureau.
"Grayling visitor center".
Michigan Shore to Shore Riding and Hiking Trail.
Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Kirtland's Warbler Populations Continue to Grow.
"Camp Grayling Military Installation".
"City of Grayling > Departments > City Manager".
"Picture of northern end US 127 at Grayling, Michigan".
City of Grayling home page.
Grayling Visitors Bureau.
Municipalities and communities of Crawford County, Michigan, United States County seat: Grayling
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Cities in Crawford County, Michigan - Cities in Michigan - County seats in Michigan
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