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Lake Township Hall · 1380 N. Michelson Rd., Houghton Lake, MI 48629
Lake Township Roscommon County · Michigan
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Parks & Community

The park, the cemetery, recreation planning, area events, and a little of the Township's story.

Lake Township Park

9530 W. Lake City Road, Houghton Lake

A Township park on the shore of Houghton Lake. A site map is available at the official lake-township.com site.

View the park site map

Parks & Recreation Plan

2023–2027 Horizon

The Lake Township Planning Commission prepared the Township's comprehensive Parks & Recreation Plan, approved by the Board on July 12, 2022.

Read the Recreation Plan

Lake Township Cemetery

1476 Michelson Rd.

Open during daylight hours, April 1 through December 31.

Township Hall rentals

The Township Hall is currently not available for rentals. The Township purchased land in 2023 and is planning a new hall that can offer rentals to residents in the future.

On the calendar

Area events

The Houghton Lake Chamber of Commerce maintains the community calendar for the area. Each January, the Chamber hosts Tip-Up Town USA, the area's winter ice-fishing carnival on the lake, named for the flag-like "tip-ups" anglers set over their holes in the ice.

View the community calendar

Ice-fishing shanties dotting the frozen surface of Houghton Lake during Tip-Up Town weekend
Tip-Up Town USA on the Houghton Lake ice. Open-license photo, Joe Ross / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Our place

A township shaped by the water

Lake Township sits on the western border of Roscommon County, named for its place on the shore of Houghton Lake, the largest inland lake in Michigan and the headwaters of the Muskegon River. The communities of Michelson (a railway station from 1904, grown around shingle and sawmills) and Nellsville (founded 1906, named for supervisor Edward Nelson), along with Houghton Point and Meads Landing, make up the Township.

The Houghton Lake Flats and Dead Stream floodings draw osprey, bald eagles, anglers, and birdwatchers. Locals call this shore the "Mediterranean of the North." It is a place of summer cottages and January ice, and the Township's job is to keep it running for everyone who calls it home—full time or for the season.

The open water of Houghton Lake under a wide Michigan sky
Houghton Lake in summer, Michigan's largest inland lake. Open-license photo, Wikimedia Commons (CC0).

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