Buying MI lake house- which lake is warmer, medium sized and clear?
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Buying MI lake house- which lake is warmer, medium sized and clear?
Looking to buy a vacation house on a Michigan lake but don't know where to start. Love the look of Torch, Higgins, Charlevoix, etc. but they are too cold and too big. Looking for something medium sized (500-1000 acres.), very clean and clear, but not too deep (less than 75 feet.) so that the water is not so cold. Would love something not too far north, as I live in Ohio and would like a shorter drive. Would also like to be within a half hour of a decent sized town for restaurants and shops.
Any thoughts or suggestions?
Any help is much appreciated!
Any thoughts or suggestions?
Any help is much appreciated!
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Forgot to add. We lived in Ogden Dunes on the very southern tip of Lake Michigan. Very warm and swimable three months of the year with a shallow beach. And public transit to Chicago. Great location.
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Lakes in this area never truly warm up because they do not have any vertical circulation. The surface water will warm up to maybe a depth of 3 to 5 feet but you have a thermal boundary that is very obvious. So it really is not going to make difference in the depth of the lake. Then if you have a storm or something that stirs up the lake, it will get cold in a hurry.
You may have an unrealistic price barrier given you original statement.
You may have an unrealistic price barrier given you original statement.
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Decades ago, I took my basic scuba 'final exam' on Higgins Lake. Went down about 30'. Wasn't anywhere NEAR as cold as Torch Lake on its warmest day ever. So I suppose cold water at depth only matters if one swims at depth.
Googling Lake Thumb, looks nice enough; but that'd be about 6 hours from Cleveland, non-stop. Nothing closer, like in the Irish Hills?
Googling Lake Thumb, looks nice enough; but that'd be about 6 hours from Cleveland, non-stop. Nothing closer, like in the Irish Hills?
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