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Surrounded by northern Michigan's dense Taiga/boreal forest, Kitch-iti-kipi is the State's largest freshwater spring. Known as the "Mirror of Heaven" by early Native Americans, Kitch-iti-kipi was considered a sacred place.

At over two hundred feet across, with 40 feet deep of incredibly clear emerald-colored water (see lower left of image - that light sand is roughly 40 feet down), more than 10,000 gallons a minute gush from fissures in the underlying limestone at a constant temperature of 45 degrees Fahrenheit year around.

 

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Uploaded on October 8, 2018
Taken on September 15, 2016