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Originally Posted by DetroitSky
There’s two sections of Erie Township, Michigan that’s only accessible by land from Toledo, Ohio. They’re located at the end of two peninsulas in Lake Erie.
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Yes! The lost peninsulas! That's the first one that came to mind for me too, for Michigan! These are all fascinating. I'll try a few -
1. The distance between Monroe (southeast portion of Michigan's lower peninsula) and Ironwood (western portion of Michigan's upper peninsula) is about 630 miles - more than the distance from Detroit to NYC. It's about a 10 hour drive either way. In the same amount of time it takes you to cross the state of Michigan diagonally by car, you could theoretically drive through a good chunk of Ohio, all of Pennsylvania, a good bit of New Jersey, and enter New York.
2. If traveling from Ironwood, MI to Niles, MI, it's about three hours quicker to drive through Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana (about an 8 hour trip), than it is to drive just through Michigan (about 11 hours) to get there.
3. The westernmost point in the US's eastern time zone is is in Michigan's UP. Ontonagon, MI has the longest lasting summer daylight in the EST (in the contiguous US). Of course, the tradeoff is it's dark by 4pm in the deep winter. A very thin slice of the western part of the UP is in the central time zone (I honestly just learned that right now).
4. Detroit is closer to Buffalo, NY than it is to Chicago, IL. Not sure if that is surprising to folks or not.