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Gay, Michigan: Gay Bar

Posing in front of its sign is a unique photo-op, but you really have to want to see this place to drive all the way out to it.

Gay Bar

Address:
925 Lake St., Gay, MI
Directions:
Take Hwy 26 to Lake Linden, turn east onto 9th St., drive a half-mile, turn left (north) onto Traprock Valley Rd, drive 1.5 miles, turn right (east) onto Gay Rd. Drive 10.5 miles to Gay. The bar is on the south side of 2nd St.
Hours:
Opens 11 am, Su Noon. (Call to verify) Local health policies may affect hours and access.
Phone:
906-296-0951
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Gay Bar - Stamping Mill Ruins

I found something more interesting in Gay than the Gay Bar. If you look north from the Gay Bar, you'll see a giant smokestack a couple blocks away. It's part of an extensive ruin of an old stamping mill (where they crushed iron ore for shipping). It was pretty big. Behind the ruins are miles of red dunes (they just dumped the waste into the lake). It's now being mined for road construction. That's why the roads in the U.P. have a pinkish tinge.

[Jim Barfuss, 04/20/2011]

Gay Bar sign.

Gay Bar

I took a trip to Gay, Michigan last weekend and snapped a photo of the Gay Bar. Thought you might enjoy it.

[Paul McLeod, 11/15/2002]

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