Greene's Lake Road

Road

Intersects

Greene's Bay Road · West Side Road

Coordinates

45.6378° N, 85.5878° WGoogle Maps: Greene's Lake RoadDownload KML

Eras

Modern era

Concepts

transportationtoponymy

Within

Beaver Island archipelago

Summary

Greene’s Lake Road is a named road on Beaver Island’s current OpenStreetMap map. One held way carries that name, and its geometry is the whole route: about 613 m. It meets two other named roads, listed under intersects_road.

Evidence and limits

The name and the alignment are what mappers last entered, and OpenStreetMap is volunteered work rather than a survey: it settles neither the right-of-way nor who maintains the road. Where the name came from is a separate question. Plats, road-commission minutes, and island memory answer that one. Put an older spelling from any of them into alt_names or former_names, with the source that attests it.

Documented associations

These source-backed records provide context for the mapped route:

• Beaver Islands State Wildlife Research Area — Beaver Islands State Wildlife Research Area is a Michigan Department of Natural Resources public-land designation covering substantial state-managed land in the Beaver Island archipelago, dating from the 1970s. Local reporting places 9,195.5 acres of the Beaver Island portion within the 2024…
• Greenes Lake Public Access — Greenes Lake Public Access is a fishing access site listed in the Beaver Island recreation-facilities inventory. The inventory places it on Greene’s Lake Road and identifies Michigan DNR ownership; a later DNR–Peaine lease names Greene’s Lake Boat Access among the leased recreation sites. The county snapshot adds a dated DNR parcel context under PIN…

Research status

The local newspaper and website corpus contains exact-name mentions in 1 file(s). Those files are research leads; the relation layer is added only when the surrounding source text establishes that the record involves this road.

Added 2 August 2026. Recent changes