Bear Lake, MI (Village)

Bear Lake is a village in Manistee County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The 2020 census counted 342 residents. The village is located within Bear Lake Township. During the following twenty years, Manistee grew as virgin forests were cut, and the logs put into the Manistee rivers to float to the mills on Manistee Lake. The Bear Lake area is home to various business and industry; primarily agriculture focusing on fruit production, and tourism due to the lake and the adjacent Manistee National Forest and Pere Marquette State Forest. Manistee National Forest. Pere Marquette State Forest.

Bear Lake currently has a K-12 public school. Bear Lake is one of the schools given the Freedom to Learn grant giving students and teachers use of modern technology such as laptops for use in the classroom. A newcomer can read Bear Lake through the overlap of its older landmarks, surrounding geography, and current places. For a newcomer, Bear Lake comes into focus through those concrete links among its past, landscape, and current routines. The village is in northwestern Manistee County on the south shore of a lake with the same name.