Rogue River (Michigan)
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The Rogue River is a river in the in U.S. state of Michigan. It runs through Kent and Newaygo Counties and through the Rogue River State Game Area. It is 42 miles long, has a drainage basin of 234 mile² and joins the Grand River southeast of Belmont in Plainfield Township. The Blythefield Country Club is now situated on a bluff just northeast of where the Rogue flows into the Grand.
Originally named "Rouge River", the river's apellation was altered in the 19th century due to the printing error of a Wisconsin mapmaker. The historic Rogue River, as a frontier waterway was of major importance to local tribes and traders. In the lumber era its waters floated timber to the mills of the Grand Valley and the riverboat Algoma plied its way northward by route of the Rogue giving its name to the Kent county township of Algoma. Rogue River is designated as a "Country Scenic" under Michigan's "Natural Rivers Act" and is popular with trout fishers and local youth who have floated the river by innertube since the mid 20th century. It is intersected in parts by the White Pine bicycle trail. It varies from 15 feet wide in the upper sections to 80 feet wide near its end and is between 1 - 4 feet deep. The one dam provides Rockford with drinking water.
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External links
- Map of river (http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,1607,7-153-10367_11855_11992---,00.html) from the Michigan DNR