TRAVELTRIVIA
QUESTION OF THE MONTH
(© 2010 Randy Karr)

Elly Willis, Deborah Black, and Fred Black correctly answered Saginaw native Robert Heft as the 17-year-old high school student who designed the 50-star U.S. flag, which is the longest serving flag and the only one in American history to have flown over the White House for more than five administrations. Now, let’s see how you do with this Michigan Travel Trivia Question of The Month. Answer is due February 15, 2010.

Michigan’s fastest-flowing river, located in the Lower Peninsula, is a challenge for most canoers and kayakers. While the river has no jaw-dropping whitewater, the pace is thrilling, the currents tricky. From its headwaters near Gaylord, the spring fed river flows northward through a heavily wooded state forest, before entering a lake near Indian River. The lake, named after a man who surveyed the area in the mid 1800s, is a link in the Inland Waterway, a chain of lakes and rivers that allows small boats to navigate an inland route across the state, between Lake Huron and Lake Michigan. The Purple Gang, considered suspects in the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, once owned a boathouse on this lake. Name the lake that borders Griswold Mountain and the river, which is named after a fish.

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Know an interesting or unique fact about Michigan that you think would make a good Travel Trivia question? Then, please e-mail your suggestion to randy@lakeshoreguardian.com. Thanks!