Montague, Michigan -
World's Largest Weather Vane

We passed this huge weather vane on a trip to Western Michigan to visit lighthouses. We happened by this and had to take a picture. It was an added pleasure between the White River Lighthouse and Little Point Sable Lighthouse. [Ennazus, 06/10/2006]

[RA: The claimed World's Largest Weather Vane is 48 ft. tall and features a lumber schooner. A larger "weather vane," is in Whitehorse, Yukon in Canada -- a pole-mounted Douglas DC-3 plane that turns with the wind. However, if you are out lighthousing, Montague's weather vane is the one for you.]

This is the huge weathervane in Montague Michigan, right near Lake Michigan and White Lake. About two miles away is a very cool and redone original A&W drive in! Roadside Heaven! [Cara Barillas, 05/21/2006]

What is billed as the World's Largest Weather Vane sits on the shores of White Lake in Montague, Michigan. It's aluminum, 48 feet tall with a 26-foot wind arrow, adorned with a 14-foot replica of a 19th-century Great Lakes schooner. Weather station in base. [Jordan, 01/01/2006]

This giant weather vane sits on the shores of White Lake. The hand-formed aluminum weather vane is 48 feet high, 14 feet long, and weighs 4,300 pounds. [S.A. Love, 03/09/2003]

[RA: It is an ornate, olde timey looking thing with a metal masted ship at the top. Features a weather station in the base. Also note a competing claim of World's Largest Weather Vane in Whitehorse, Yukon , Canada. That one is a DC-3 plane at Whitehorse Intl. Airport that spins on a pole when the wind changes direction....]