Lake Gogebic, MI

Lake Gogebic is a census-designated place in Bergland Township, Ontonagon County, Michigan, United States. The 2020 census counted 122 residents. Lake Gogebic is situated on the north shore of Lake Gogebic, the largest natural inland lake on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The CDP includes the unincorporated communities of Lake Gogebic and Merriweather, and it is bordered to the east by the community of Bergland. The short version is that Lake Gogebic carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Lake Gogebic: its past remains attached to the places people use now. The northern edge of the CDP follows highway M-28, which leads east 22 miles to Bruce Crossing and southwest 17 miles to Wakefield.