If you ever find your family visiting the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, I highly recommend you visit Palms Book State Park. It's a very tiny state park, but has a very cool attraction. The state park basically consists of a visitor's center, a parking lot, and a big spring called Kitch-iti-kipi. It's a clear water spring that gushes up to 10,000 gallons of water per minute from below the limestone. There's a boat (free of charge, although you need a state park pass to park) that you can get on and turn a wheel to move across the spring.
The boat has an open bottom to allow you to see underneath. Looking at the bottom you can see water gushing into the spring in many different places.
The circular areas you see in the pictures show "dirt" on the bottom of the spring being disrupted by incoming water from below. My kids loved the boat and loved being able to move the boat themselves simply by turning the "steering" wheel. This is a great stop for kids.
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