Mackinac or Mackinaw may refer to:

Geography

Landforms

  • Straits of Mackinac, a waterway in the U.S. state of Michigan connecting two of the Great Lakes, Lake Michigan and Lake Huron and separating the Upper and Lower Peninsulas of Michigan
  • Mackinac Island, an island in the Straits of Mackinac
  • Mackinaw River, a tributary of the Illinois River in the U.S. state of Illinois
  • Little Mackinaw River, a tributary of the Mackinaw River

Populated areas

  • Mackinac County, Michigan
  • Mackinac Island, Michigan, the city on Mackinac Island
  • Mackinaw Township, Michigan, in Cheboygan County
  • Mackinaw City, Michigan, a village in Mackinaw Township
  • Mackinaw Township, Tazewell County, Illinois
  • Mackinaw, Illinois, a village in Mackinaw Township
  • Little Mackinaw Township, Tazewell County, Illinois
  • Mackinaw Historic District, a historic residential area in Franklin, Ohio

Structures and places

  • Mackinac Bridge, a bridge over the Straits of Mackinac
  • Old Mackinac Point Lighthouse, a lighthouse in Mackinaw City
  • Fort Mackinac, a British, later American, fort on Mackinac Island
  • Mackinac Island State Park, a state park on Mackinac Island
  • Straits of Mackinac Shipwreck Preserve, a state-designated preservation area within much of the Straits of Mackinac
  • Mackinac Wilderness, a designated area within the Hiawatha National Forest in Mackinac County, Michigan
  • Mackinac Trail (or Mackinaw Trail), two related, but separate, roadways in Michigan
  • Mackinac Trail – Carp River Bridge, a bridge along the Mackinac Trail over the Carp River in Mackinac County
  • Mackinaw State Forest, a state-owned forested area in the northern Lower Peninsula of Michigan
  • Mackinaw River State Fish and Wildlife Area, a state park in Tazewell County, Illinois, bisected by the Mackinaw River

Corporations and organizations

  • Cincinnati, Jackson and Mackinaw Railroad, a railroad that formerly operated in Ohio and Michigan
  • Detroit and Mackinac Railway, a railroad that formerly operated in Michigan
  • Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a research and educational organization advocating free-market policies
  • Mackinac Financial Corporation, a bank holding company
  • Mackinac Island State Park Commission, an appointed board that administers state parklands in the Straits of Mackinac area
  • Mackinac Transportation Company, a train ferry service that shuttled railroad cars across the Straits of Mackinac from 1882 until 1984

Ships

  • USCGC Mackinac, several ships of the United States Coast Guard
  • USCGC Mackinaw, several ships of the United States Coast Guard
  • USRC Mackinac (1903) or USCGC Mackinac, a patrol boat
  • USS Mackinac, several ships of the United States Navy
  • USS Mackinaw, a United States Navy gunboat commissioned twice between 1864 and 1867

Sailing

  • Mackinaw boat, a type of small sailboat used in the Upper Great Lakes
  • Port Huron to Mackinac Boat Race
  • Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac

Other uses

  • Mackinaw cloth, a heavy and dense water-repellent woolen cloth
  • Mackinaw jacket, a short double-breasted wool coat
  • Mackinaw trout or Lake trout
  • Mackinac Rendezvous, an annual Boy Scouts of America event held in the Straits of Mackinac area
  • Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference (also known as the Midwest Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference), a biannual political conference held on Mackinac Island
  • Mackinac Policy Conference, an annual political and economic conference held on Mackinac Island
  • Mackinac Island meteorite, a meteorite found on the planet Mars by the Opportunity rover on October 13, 2009

See also

  • Mackinawite, an iron nickel sulfide mineral
  • Michilimackinac, a former term for the entire region around the Straits of Mackinac
  • Fort Michilimackinac, a French, later British, fort and trading post on the northern tip of Michigan's Lower Peninsula at the Straits of Mackinac
  • Mékinac (disambiguation)