Montague, Michigan: World's Largest Weather Vane
48 feet tall, topped with a lumber schooner whose sails catch the wind.
- Address:
- 4560 Dowling St., Montague, MI
- Directions:
- Downtown, along the waterfront, at Dowling and Water Sts.
- Phone:
- 231-894-8265
- Admission:
- Free.
- RA Rates:
- Worth a Detour
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The Weather Vane is impressive and worth a stop if you're in the area. Just SE from the Vane (how convenient) we discovered a Dog & Suds Root Beer stand. Great place for a quick bite. Tables overlook the nearby lake and canal.
[J Nichols, 07/31/2012]
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]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]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....
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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.