Grayling

Grayling, city, seat (1879) of Crawford county, north-central Michigan, U.S. It is located on the Au Sable River, one of the most-celebrated trout streams in the Midwest, some 50 miles (80 km) east of Traverse City. Named for the once-plentiful grayling, the city was settled in 1874 and developed first as a mill town for the surrounding white pine forests; the city’s fortunes declined after the end of the timber boom, but after World War...