- Intersects
- Beaver Drive · Lake Drive · Pine Street
- Coordinates
- 45.7518° N, 85.5041° WGoogle Maps: Lookout DriveDownload KML
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- transportationtoponymy
- Within
- Beaver Island archipelago
Summary
Lookout Drive 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 340
m. It meets three 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:
- Lookout Point — Lookout Point is a GNIS-named cape on Beaver Island. A July 2025 local-history account identifies a high point by Lookout Drive as the former site of a Coast Guard lookout tower with views toward Lake Michigan. It says Coast Guard personnel manned the tower daily with binoculars until the Mackinac Bridge was completed, and that paths between the tower and…
Research status
The local newspaper and website corpus contains exact-name mentions in 5 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.
Maps for this place
These Atlas plates provide regional context. They do not establish a precise boundary, current ownership, access right, operating status, or field condition.
- EnvironmentSoils, wetlands, hydrography, and terrain
- GeologyGeneralized geology and landforms
- HydrologyMapped water and wetland context
- AccessMapped routes, facilities, and protected areas
- Land surveyPLSS geometry and historic GLO patent-location context
Sources
- Current mapped road name 'Lookout Drive'; grouped OSM way ids: 17757816. This is a volunteered map record, not a surveyed right-of-way or proof of historical naming.osm · roads
Added 2 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Lookout Drive”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/places/lookout-drive/, accessed [date], citing OpenStreetMap contributors, roads via Overpass API, retrieved 2026-08-01 (ODbL 1.0)..
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