Wetland area and agricultural field near the Pere Marquette River, Michigan (@ Visuals Unlimited, Inc./Jeff Wickett/Getty Images)

Wetland area and agricultural field near the Pere Marquette River, Michigan (@ Visuals Unlimited, Inc./Jeff Wickett/Getty Images)

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• Don\t worry about tipping your canoe as you paddle the river that feeds this wetland.""It averages just two to four feet deep
• Michiganders have lent the name “Marquette” not just to this river, but to places all over the state.""What\d this Marquette do that was so special?
• These shallow waters are home to a variety of aquatic beasties...""Including this amphibian with a deceptively cute name
• Come to this wetland and you\ll be in the state that claims the most freshwater coastline of any of the 50 United States.""Its name even means “large water”