Big Rock Point is named after the huge boulder that lies just offshore. It fell from a retreating glacier at the end of the last ice age when this region was covered by an ice shelf five miles high. The Native-Americans called it Kitchi-ossining, literally "Big Rock." They gathered on the shore by the landmark twice a year on their annual migrations between their southern Michigan winter grounds and their summer hunting and gathering regions north of Little Traverse Bay. The rock stands eight feet high and is thirty feet in circumference. It is visible in the first photo.