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Garden Michigan Map

Explore Garden, Michigan, with this interactive street and satellite map.

This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.

Interactive Map of Garden, Michigan

How to Use This Garden, Michigan Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Garden, Michigan. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Michigan or beyond.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Garden.

Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.

CityGarden
StateMichigan (MI)
CountyDelta County
CountryUnited States of America
TimezoneEastern Time (America/Detroit)
Latitude45.7747
Longitude-86.550695
Population174
Density81.3 /km²
IncorporatedYes
ZIP Code49835
Area Code906
County SeatEscanaba
School DistrictBig Bay de Noc School District

About Garden, Michigan

Garden is a locality in Delta County, Michigan, United States. It is a small community with a population of 174. The population density is 81.3 people per km². Garden is located at 45.7747°N, 86.5507°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/Detroit) timezone. Garden is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 49835.

Garden holds a quiet stillness where the steady, rhythmic pulse of Garden Creek carves a path through the earth toward the expansive, cool waters of Lake Michigan. It lies 24.9 miles east of Escanaba, MI (from Escanaba, MI: bearing 85°T), and is situated 19.4 miles southwest of Manistique. The landscape unfolds in a deliberate pattern of dense, verdant woodlands and open clearings, where the air carries the sharp, clean scent of pine and the damp musk of the soil. Only a mile away, the Shingleton State Forest Area offers a sanctuary of untamed growth, while the broader reaches of the Manistique River State Forest mark the horizon just four miles distant. In the waning light of late afternoon, the shadows stretch long across the ground, turning the muted greens and browns of the forest edge into a deep, velvet gray that swallows the lingering warmth of the day.

Garden maintains a character shaped by the resilience of those who first cleared these stubborn, frost-hardened fields to sustain a life tied to the land. The local economy persists in a slow, steady dialogue with the seasons, favoring the cultivation of orchards and the modest, necessary industries that have long defined the Upper Peninsula. Life here moves with the deliberate pace of the changing climate, where the harvest and the winter preparations dictate the rhythm of the work week. Even now, the echoes of a labor-driven past remain visible in the sturdy, unpretentious structures that anchor the landscape, serving as a reminder that Garden exists as a place of quiet endurance, defined more by the character of its inhabitants than by the frantic pace of the wider world.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • Shingleton State Foreset Area (State Conservation Area) — 1.4 mi, 166° S
  • Haunted Forest (Conservation Area) — 2.9 mi, 245° SW
  • Manistique River State Forest (Nature Reserve) — 4.4 mi, 055° NE
  • Fayette State Park (State Park) — 5.5 mi, 232° SW
  • Old School Site (Historic Ruins) — 6.6 mi, 235° SW
  • Sturgeon, Michigan (Hiawatha Nf) Wild and Scenic River (Wild & Scenic River) — 6.7 mi, 308° NW · 8,392 acres
  • Hay Barn Site (Historic Ruins) — 6.7 mi, 236° SW
  • Nahma and Northern Railway Locomotive Number 5 (Attraction) — 7.1 mi, 310° NW
  • Sandtown Historic Site (Monument) — 7.4 mi, 308° NW
  • Hiawatha National Forest (National Forest) — 8.1 mi, 347° N · 899k acres
  • Natural Area Point Detour (State Conservation Area) — 10.7 mi, 200° S
  • Flowing Well (Attraction) — 13.4 mi, 326° NW
  • Green Bay National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 13.6 mi, 213° SW · 3,604 acres
  • Thompson Christmas Tree Ship (Monument) — 14.2 mi, 050° NE
  • Indian Lake State Park (State Park) — 15.7 mi, 035° NE
  • Indian, Michigan Wild and Scenic River (Wild & Scenic River) — 18.2 mi, 029° NE · 12k acres
  • SS Carl D Bradley (Monument) — 19.3 mi, 052° NE
  • Schoolcraft Historical Museum (Museum) — 19.4 mi, 048° NE
  • Big Pines Overlook (Viewpoint) — 24.5 mi, 323° NW
  • Big Island Lake Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 28.6 mi, 006° N · 5,728 acres
  • Ewing Point (Attraction) — 30.7 mi, 357° N
  • Little Lake Nature Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 31.1 mi, 217° SW
  • Jens Jacobson's Cabin (Museum) — 31.7 mi, 217° SW
  • Thorstein Veblen Study Cabin (Museum) — 31.7 mi, 217° SW
  • Jacobson's Museum (Museum) — 31.7 mi, 217° SW
  • Seney National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 34.8 mi, 026° NE · 191k acres
  • Seney National Wildlife Refuge Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 34.9 mi, 025° NE · 27k acres
  • Munising Falls (Attraction) — 44.9 mi, 356° N
  • Mormon Print Shop Museum (Museum) — 49.7 mi, 092° E
  • Northern Sky Theater (Theatre) — 53.5 mi, 218° SW

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About This Garden Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Garden, Michigan. Coordinates: 45.7747, -86.550695. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Garden includes the ZIP code (49835), telephone area code (906), county seat of Delta County (Escanaba), and school district assignment (Big Bay de Noc School District).

Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.

Page generatedSeptember 2026
Location dataSimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data
Map layersGoogle Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model)
Wikipedia validationArticle content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API.