Winter Wonderland
For many Michigan visitors and residents,
winter is meant to be enjoyed as well as endured.
 The winter scene features a flowing
stream and a half-scale reproduction of Keweenaw
County's famous snow pole marked with its 1978-79 record snowfall of 390.4
inches.
State ski resorts adopted the ski lift—first introduced in Michigan at Boyne
Mountain's Hemlock Run in 1950—to attract skiers. The snow-making machine,
pioneered at Boyne in 1953, extended Michigan's downhill ski season.  Cross-country skiing and snowmobiling also provided more winter fun.
In 1984, Michigan registered 270,000 snowmobiles, more than any other state.
Michigan's winter festivals offer other wintertime favorites such as dogsled
races, ice-sculpting contests and Tip-Up-Town, an ice-fishing festival in the
city of Houghton Lake and on its lake.
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