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Grand Mere State Park

Grand Mere State Park is a public recreation and nature preservation area in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Michigan near Stevensville. The state park is located adjacent to Interstate 94. Protected from Lake Michigan by the dunes to the west, the park has many natural features not found throughout the rest of the state. In 1968 it was designated a National Natural Landmark.

Geography
The  park is mostly wooded and has three geologically ancient inland lakes, left behind as the glaciers receded during the last ice age. At one time there were five such lakes, but two of the lakes have disappeared as a result of aquatic succession, and the remaining three can be seen to be slowly disappearing today.

The dunes protecting the park also create a relatively cool environment that supports plants not normally seen in southern Michigan, some of which are classified as rare, threatened or endangered.

Activities and amenities
The park offers swimming, hiking, picnicking, boat launch, and cross-country skiing.

The park has almost two miles of sandy beach, which can be reached only on foot by climbing over steep sand dunes. There are many trails for hiking and cross-country skiing, but most are neither posted nor maintained. (Biking on the trails is prohibited.) The trail conditions vary from loose sand to hard packed dirt. There are many hills including a large sand dune that was once used for off-road vehicles. Access to the dune by large, four-wheeled vehicles has been blocked with guard rails.

References

External links

Grand Mere State Park Michigan Michigan Department of Natural Resources
Grand Mere State Park Map Michigan Department of Natural Resources

State parks of Michigan
Protected areas of Berrien County, Michigan
Beaches of Michigan
Landforms of Berrien County, Michigan
National Natural Landmarks in Michigan
Protected areas established in 1973
1973 establishments in Michigan
IUCN Category III
Harrisville State Park

Harrisville State Park is a public recreation area covering  on the shore of Lake Huron off U.S. Route 23 in Harrisville and Harrisville Township, Alcona County, Michigan. The state park contains more than 100 acres of heavily forested land as well as a mile-long sandy beach. It is considered an important location for birders, with large and varied migratory populations of warblers and other song birds. The park is administered by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.

History
Harrisville State Park was among 13 parks established in 1920 following the creation of the Michigan State Parks Commission a year earlier. It originally covered only . The park's Cedar Run Nature Trail was cut through the forested areas of the park as early as 1945.

Wildlife
Harrisville State Park offers outstanding birding opportunities in May when numerous warbler species may be seen. Other species include nuthatches, woodpeckers, wrens, thrushes, vireos, and sparrows.

Activities and amenities
The park features a swimming beach, bathhouse, picnic areas, sports fields, carry-in boat launch, 195 campground sites, cabin, and mini-cabins. The  Cedar Run Nature Trail crosses forested areas of the park. A section of beach north of the campers area is pet friendly.

The park offers bike rentals, in coordination with the opening of the Alcona Heritage Route Multi-use Trail. The trail is a three-quarter mile paved, multi-use trail out of the park that connects to the trail to Harrisville.

Gallery

References

External links

Harrisville State Park Michigan Department of Natural Resources
Harrisville State Park Map Michigan Department of Natural Resources

State parks of Michigan
Protected areas of Alcona County, Michigan
Protected areas established in 1920
1920 establishments in Michigan
Beaches of Michigan
Landforms of Alcona County, Michigan
IUCN Category III
Hart–Montague Trail State Park

William Field Memorial Hart–Montague Trail State Park, previously and more commonly known as Hart–Montague Trail State Park, is a linear state park in Michigan that consists of a bicycle trail running from the city of Montague in Muskegon County to the city of Hart in Oceana County. The trail is very easy to ride, as it was built on former Chicago & West Michigan railroad right of way (later abandoned by the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway) with a very low grade. The trail is also very popular for snowmobiles in the winter months.

History
Recognizing its potential, Bill Field of Shelby purchased the former railroad and donated it for trail use to the State of Michigan. Opened in 1991 and officially adopted as a Rails to Trails park in 1996, it was one of the first "Rails to Trails" projects in the State of Michigan. Its success paved the way for more trails throughout the state and Midwest. The trail's total length was previously ; however, new trails, notably the "White Lake Pathway", "Fred Meijer Berry Junction Trail", "McMillan Trail", and Muskegon's "Lakeshore Trail" have been constructed south of Montague, which makes it possible to bike from Hart to Muskegon, a total of 45 miles (72 km), without ever leaving a bike trail.

Attractions
A number of local businesses, such as restaurants and ice cream parlors, in the towns along the trail have posted small, discreet signage near the trail to attract cycling visitors who might not otherwise ever notice the little shops in the intervening small municipalities. A whimsically themed ice cream/dairy bar in New Era, roughly halfway along the trail, is often mentioned by trail visitors, although there are also a number of others spread along the trail. There is a bicycle rental shop on Thompson St in Montague in the south, a repair shop right off the trail in Mears as well as another rental shop on Silver Lake Rd in Mears several miles away from the northern section of the trail.

Waypoints
Waypoints for the Hart–Montague Trail.
↑ in the Distance column points to the other waypoint that the distance is between.

References

External links
 Official Site of the Hart–Montague Bicycle Trail (Hosted by Michigan Department of Natural Resources)
 Map of the Hart–Montague Bicycle Trail

State parks of Michigan
Protected areas of Muskegon County, Michigan
Protected areas of Oceana County, Michigan
Rail trails in Michigan
Hayes State Park

Walter J. Hayes State Park is a public recreation area covering  on the southeast corner of Wamplers Lake in the Irish Hills region of the state of Michigan. Most of the state park lies within Lenawee County with a small portion extending into Jackson and Washtenaw counties in the Round Lake area. The park offers access to  Wamplers Lake and completely surrounds  Round Lake, which connects to Wamplers Lake via a channel navigable by smaller boats. Other scenic lakes including Evans Lake and Sand Lake as well as chains of smaller lakes lie nearby. The park is traversed by Michigan Route 124 north of its intersection with US Highway 12.

History
Dedicated in 1920, the park was among the first 25 established by the Michigan State Parks Commission, which referred to it as both Cedar Hills State Park and Adrian State Park. It originally comprised a 99-acre purchase by the state plus two donations of land which brought the park's size to some 200 acres. It was renamed in 1930 after the family of Michigan State Senator Walter J. Hayes made a donation of land with the stipulation that the name change take place. The Civilian Conservation Corps made improvements to the park during the 1930s. Michigan CCC camp SP1 was active in Hayes State Park from 1933 to 1935.

Facilities and activities
The park offers fishing for bass, bluegill and pike, swimming, hiking, picnicking, boat launch, boat rentals, campgrounds, and mini-cabins.

References

External links

Hayes State Park Michigan Department of Natural Resources 
Hayes State Park Map Michigan Department of Natural Resources

State parks of Michigan
Protected areas of Jackson County, Michigan
Protected areas of Lenawee County, Michigan
Protected areas of Washtenaw County, Michigan
Protected areas established in 1920
1920 establishments in Michigan
IUCN Category III
Civilian Conservation Corps in Michigan
Indian Lake State Park (Michigan)

Indian Lake State Park is a public recreation area covering  in    
Schoolcraft County on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The state park is made up of two units that are three miles apart, one on the south shore of Indian Lake, one on the west shore.

History
Acquisition of the south shore site occurred in 1932; acquisition of the west shore site occurred in 1939, with development beginning there in 1965. Members of the Civilian Conservation Corps and WPA developed the south shore site in the 1930s, building a log bath house and a 40-by-80-foot limestone picnic shelter that is still in use.

Activities and amenities
The park offers swimming, boating, hiking, picnicking, and camping.

References

External links

Indian Lake State Park Michigan Department of Natural Resources
Indian Lake State Park Map Michigan Department of Natural Resources

State parks of Michigan
Protected areas of Schoolcraft County, Michigan
Protected areas established in 1932
1932 establishments in Michigan
Civilian Conservation Corps in Michigan
Interlochen State Park

Interlochen State Park is a public recreation area covering  between Green Lake and Duck Lake in Grand Traverse County, Michigan. It was the State of Michigan's first officially recognized state park. It was established by the Michigan Legislature in 1917; $60,000 was paid for the land. Originally named Pine Park, the park was created to preserve for future generations the virgin pine (Pinus strobus) stand.  It is one of the few easily reached places in Michigan where old-growth (pre-European settlement) red pine can be found.

In 1928, the National Music Camp was established on the property adjoining the northern boundary of the park. It is located next to the Interlochen Center for the Arts.

Also popular at Interlochen State Park is the Three Discipline Triathlon Event hosted each July.

Activities and amenities
The park offers swimming, playground, year-round fishing, picnicking, camping, and three boat launches.

See also
Hartwick Pines State Park for the other stand of virgin eastern white pine in the Lower Peninsula.

References

External links
Interlochen State Park Michigan Department of Natural Resources 
Interlochen State Park Map Michigan Department of Natural Resources

State parks of Michigan
Protected areas of Grand Traverse County, Michigan
Protected areas established in 1919
1919 establishments in Michigan
IUCN Category III
Lake Gogebic State Park

Lake Gogebic State Park is a public recreation area covering  in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The state park sits on the western shore of Lake Gogebic, the largest inland lake in the Upper Peninsula. The land around the park is sparsely populated, and relatively flat.

History
In 1926, Gogebic County purchased land on Lake Gogebic, which it gave to the State of Michigan. E. J. Stickley and W. Bonafas gave additional land to the state and in 1930 the park opened. Two gravestones discovered in the park in 1962, engraved "1822 JOHN KEY" and "1824 WHITH", are thought by researchers to be those of fur traders or others dealing with Native Americans.

Activities and amenities
The park offers nearly a mile of beach front access, fishing, swimming, boat launch, camping, picnicking, and a  nature trail through the Ottawa National Forest.

References

External links
Lake Gogebic State Park Michigan Department of Natural Resources
Lake Gogebic State Park Map Michigan Department of Natural Resources
Lake Gogebic State Park Protected Planet

State parks of Michigan
Protected areas of Gogebic County, Michigan
Protected areas established in 1930
Lakelands Trail State Park

Lakelands Trail State Park, officially the Mike Levine Lakelands Trail State Park since January 20, 2017, is a state park in Michigan that runs east–west from southwest of Munith to Hamburg Township, Michigan. It is a multi-use trail converted from abandoned railroad corridors. According to the Michigan DNR web site, the north side of the trail is for hiking and biking, and the south side is for horseback riding.
Based on the latest published DNR map the trail is  long with the surface from Hawkins Rd. southwest of Munith to west of Pinckney composed of sections of crushed limestone, slag and sand, or unimproved.  are paved in Hamburg Township  from the first intersection with M-36 west of Pinckney to end of the park east of the Hamburg Rd. trailhead.
A paved section of trail also extends from the edge of the park east of Hamburg Rd. to the west side of Whitmore Lake Rd., just south of its intersection with 9 Mile Rd in Green Oak Township.

From Stockbridge to Pinckney, horses are routinely ridden on the unpaved trail surface. Only the paved portion from just west of Pinckney to the east end in Hamburg Township is consistently usable by bicyclists.

Waypoints
Waypoints for Lakelands Trail State Park.
↑ in the Distance column points to the other waypoint that the distance is between.

References

External links
Lakelands Trail State Park Hamburg Township
Lakelands Trail State Park A1 Trails

Protected areas of Ingham County, Michigan
Protected areas of Livingston County, Michigan
State parks of Michigan
Huron River (Michigan)
Rail trails in Michigan
Lakeport State Park

Lakeport State Park is a public recreation area on the shores of Lake Huron in St. Clair County, Michigan. The state park consists of two units on either side of the community of Lakeport within Burtchville Township.  Two campgrounds, beachfront, and camp store are on the north side, and a picnic area and beachfront are on the south side.

History
Lakeport State Park was established in 1938 as Port Huron State Park within one mile of the existing Saint Clair (County) State Park (now Burtchville Township Park) north of Lakeport. Land acquisition continued into the 1940s and after a 1946 appropriation of $85,000 for initial improvements, the park (today's North Unit) was officially opened to users in 1947 as Lakeport State Park. (Saint Clair State Park was turned over to Saint Clair County in 1946 due to its proximity to the new state park less than a mile to the south and its small, 17-acre size.) The South Unit was formerly a United Auto Workers retreat, where in 1962, the Port Huron Statement was completed and announced. Approval by the State Conservation Commission to acquire the 200-acre tract for $250,000 was approved on December 3, 1965, with a transfer date for the Michigan DNR to take control of the land the following June 15.

Activities and amenities
The park offers swimming, picnicking, playground, camp store, and campgrounds. The park's day-use area is closed Labor Day through Memorial Day.

References

External links
Lakeport State Park Michigan Department of Natural Resources
Lakeport State Park Map Michigan Department of Natural Resources

State parks of Michigan
Protected areas of St. Clair County, Michigan
Protected areas established in 1946
1946 establishments in Michigan
IUCN Category III
Leelanau State Park

Leelanau State Park is a public recreation area covering  on the Leelanau Peninsula in Leelanau County, Michigan. The state park encompasses the entire tip of the peninsula and is the home of the Grand Traverse Lighthouse Museum.

Activities and amenities
In addition to the lighthouse museum, the park offers 8.5 miles of hiking and skiing trails, picnicking, playground, cabins, and rustic camping.

References

External links
Leelanau State Park Michigan Department of Natural Resources
Leelanau State Park Map Michigan Department of Natural Resources

State parks of Michigan
Protected areas of Leelanau County, Michigan
Protected areas established in 1964
1964 establishments in Michigan
IUCN Category III
Ludington State Park

Ludington State Park is a public recreation area located two miles north of Ludington, Michigan, occupying  between the shores of Lake Michigan and Hamlin Lake. The state park is crossed by a one-mile stretch of the Big Sable River and is home to the  Big Sable Point Lighthouse, which dates from 1876.

Ecology
The state park encompasses multiple ecosystems including sand dune, forest, wetlands, and marshlands. The park contains the southern 2,820 acres (11.4 km2) of the Big Sable Dunes complex, with the Nordhouse Dunes Wilderness, immediately north of the park, preserving the northern half of the complex.

History
The park began through the efforts of the Isaac Walton League to have 800 acres held by the federal government as a lighthouse preserve transferred to the state of Michigan for the purpose of creating a state park. The park was established in 1927 after the U.S. Congress authorized the transfer. During the 1930s, the Civilian Conservation Corps was active in the park making improvements that included building the park's Arts and Crafts style beach house. In 2002, the  U.S. Coast Guard deeded  the  lighthouse station complex to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.

Activities and amenities
The park's water activities include fishing and swimming on Lake Michigan and Hamlin Lake and tubing on Big Sable River. The park offers 21.5 miles of hiking trails, 10 miles of cross-country ski trails, a 2-mile bicycle trail, and a 4-mile canoe trail. The park has four campgrounds containing a total of 360 campsites that include remote hike-in sites. The park also offers a cafe and lighthouse tours and is a stop on the Mason County Sculpture Trail.

References

External links

Ludington State Park Michigan Department of Natural Resources
Ludington State Park Map Michigan Department of Natural Resources
Sable Points Lighthouse Keepers Association

Protected areas of Mason County, Michigan
State parks of Michigan
Important Bird Areas of Michigan
Protected areas established in 1926
1926 establishments in Michigan
IUCN Category III
Civilian Conservation Corps in Michigan
Maybury State Park

Maybury State Park is a state park in Northville Township, Wayne County, Michigan composed of  of gently rolling terrain, open meadow, and mature forest. The park gives people in the nearby metropolitan area an opportunity to get involved in outdoor recreation activities in a state park setting. Lying adjacent to the park, Maybury Farm is operated as a separate facility by the Northville Community Foundation.

History
Long before the park became a haven for picnickers, the isolated woods and farm fields held more than 40 buildings—infirmaries, houses, children's playgrounds and school—in a quarantined city for thousands of Detroit's highly infectious tuberculosis, at the time often called consumption, patients. Wealthy retired real estate tycoon William H. Maybury spearheaded Detroit's construction of the facility so thousands of TB sufferers could be removed from the city, and where the beautiful surroundings might help nurse some back to health. Most of the buildings were torn down before the land became Wayne County's first state park in 1975. Many of Maybury's paved walking trails are on former walks and roadways, although just four stone and brick doctors' residences remain, including one that serves as park headquarters.

In 2003 the DNR asked the Northville Community Foundation to take over the operations of the Maybury Farm, which had been closed in 2002. An agreement was reached and the farm reopened in September 2005. In February 2003, a fire destroyed the main barns, some of the farm's equipment and killed many of the farm's animals. A public fundraising campaign led to the rebuilding of the farm including moving 125-year-old barns from a nearby town.

Activities and amenities
The state park offers pond fishing, picnicking, playgrounds, stables, and many miles of trails for hiking, biking, cross-country skiing, and equestrian use. Maybury Farm provides educational programming, sheep shearing, hay rides, corn maze, and other public farming demonstrations.

References

External links

Maybury State Park Michigan Department of Natural Resources
Maybury State Park Map Michigan Department of Natural Resources
Friends of Maybury State Park
Maybury Farm Northville Community Foundation

State parks of Michigan
Protected areas of Wayne County, Michigan
Protected areas established in 1971
1971 establishments in Michigan
IUCN Category III
Mears State Park

Charles Mears State Park is a public recreation area in the village of Pentwater, Oceana County, Michigan. The state park encompasses  on the north side of the channel that connects Lake Michigan and Pentwater Lake.

History
Mears State Park was among 13 parks established in 1920 following the creation of the Michigan State Parks Commission a year earlier. The park land, which was once owned by lumber baron Charles Mears, was donated to the state by his daughter Carrie Mears. The park originally comprised only 16 acres "strictly made up of lake sand." In 1921, the vegetation that held the sand in place was disturbed during a grading process, resulting in a loss of sand to the winds, much to the annoyance of neighboring dwellers. To cure the man-made problem, five tons of marsh hay were "evenly distributed and disked in." A toilet and fireplaces were also constructed.

Activities and amenities
In addition to fishing, swimming, camping, and picnicking, the park offers a one-mile (1.6 km) hiking trail that ascends the Old Baldy sand dune.

References

External links
Mears State Park Michigan Department of Natural Resources
Mears State Park Map Michigan Department of Natural Resources

State parks of Michigan
Protected areas of Oceana County, Michigan
Protected areas established in 1920
1920 establishments in Michigan
IUCN Category III
Beaches of Michigan
Meridian-Baseline State Park

Meridian-Baseline State Park is a historic preservation area covering  in Ingham County and Jackson County,  Michigan, containing the intersection of the Michigan meridian and the baseline used for the Michigan Survey. The state park has two monuments that show where the two mismatched baselines meet the principal meridian at the North Initial Point and South Initial Point.

History

Efforts to acquire the site were initiated by state and private interests in the 1960s. In the 1960s and 1970s, land was acquired and money was raised toward establishing a Museum of Surveying on the site. Those efforts were abandoned when the Michigan Society of Professional Surveyors opened a museum in Lansing, Michigan, in 1981.

Although the site was landlocked for many years, in 2014, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources acquired additional property allowing public access from Meridian Road near the Jackson–Ingham county line. Improvements made at the site included trail clearing and construction of a 10-car parking lot. After road signs, trail markers, and a bridge over the creek were added, the State of Michigan in conjunction with Ingham and Jackson counties, opened the new access to the park on October 12, 2015. In 2016, an additional boardwalk was completed in the wetlands near the markers.

References

External links

Meridian-Baseline State Park Michigan Department of Natural Resources 
Meridian-Baseline State Park Map Michigan Department of Natural Resources 
Meridian-Baseline State Park Topo Map Michigan Department of Natural Resources 

State parks of Michigan
Protected areas of Ingham County, Michigan
Protected areas of Jackson County, Michigan
Protected areas established in 1967
1967 establishments in Michigan
IUCN Category III
Mitchell State Park

William Mitchell State Park is a public recreation area covering  within the city limits of Cadillac in northern lower Michigan. The state park is located between Lake Mitchell and Lake Cadillac. The historic Clam Lake Canal, approximately one-third of a mile in length, connects the two lakes and runs directly through the park. Dug in 1873 at the direction of city father George A. Mitchell, the canal allowed felled trees to be floated from Lake Mitchell to lumber mills on Lake Cadillac.

History
The park bears the name of William W. Mitchell, who during the 1890s operated sawmills in the area as co-owner of the Cobbs and Mitchell Mill No. 1, and who was a nephew of city founder George Mitchell. Under the name Cadillac State Park, it was among 13 parks established in 1920 following the creation of the Michigan State Parks Commission a year earlier. The park's "prime real estate" was donated by Mitchell's widow, Ellen, who requested the park be named in her late husband's honor.

Features
The park is home to Carl T. Johnson Hunting and Fishing Center which documents the history of hunting and fishing, offers seminars, workshops and audio-visual presentations, and includes an exhibit hall which displays local wildlife species.

Activities and amenities
The park offers a campground with 221 sites, cabins, two boat launches, playground, beach, picnicking facilities, and fishing for perch, walleye, panfish, and bass. The  Heritage Nature Trail runs through a woodland and marsh environment. The trail, mostly a woodchip path with a series of bridges and boardwalks, provides a study area supporting a variety of plants and wildlife. Winter activities include snowmobiling, ice fishing, snowshoeing, and cross-country skiing.

Images

References

External links
Mitchell State Park Michigan Department of Natural Resources
Mitchell State Park Map Michigan Michigan Department of Natural Resources

State parks of Michigan
Protected areas of Wexford County, Michigan
Protected areas established in 1920
1920 establishments in Michigan
IUCN Category III
Muskallonge Lake State Park

Muskallonge Lake State Park is a state park located in Luce County in the U.S. state of Michigan.  It is located in Deer Park about  east of Grand Marais along H-58.

The park encompasses  between the shores of Lake Superior and Muskallonge Lake where Native Americans once had an encampment and where a station of the United States Life-Saving Service once stood.

History
The park occupies land just west of Deer Park, a 19th-century mill town that all but disappeared once the forests on which its mill depended were gone. The state park is also the site of former Station Muskallong Lake (Coast Guard Station #295; later called Station Deer Park), one of five such stations along the coast of Lake Superior between Munising and Whitefish Point  in the Upper Peninsula. It was part of U.S. Life-Saving Service District 10 (later part of District 11). The other four stations along Lake Superior's "Shipwreck Coast" were Grand Marais, Two Heart, Crisp Point Light, and Vermilion Point.

Deer Park Life-Saving Station was in service from 1876 to 1909. The park was transferred from the Forestry Division to Parks and Recreation Division in 1957.

Activities and amenities
The park offers swimming and fishing and includes a 159-site campground, boat launch, picnic area, playground, and trails for hiking and snow-mobiling. The park has the darkest skies for a state park in the entire state of Michigan, which makes the state park a great place for astronomy.

Images

See also
List of lifesaving stations in Michigan

References

External links

Muskallonge Lake State Park Michigan Department of Natural Resources
Muskallonge Lake State Park Map Michigan Department of Natural Resources

State parks of Michigan
Protected areas of Luce County, Michigan
Protected areas established in 1956
1956 establishments in Michigan
IUCN Category III
Negwegon State Park

Negwegon State Park is an undeveloped public recreation area on Lake Huron lying  southeast of the unincorporated community of Ossineke in Alpena County and Alcona County, Michigan. The state park's  occupy the southern tip of Thunder Bay,  across the water from the city of Alpena. The park includes lowland areas with small ridges, mature pine forest, open meadows, and a long sand beach. It is administered by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources with support from the volunteer "Friends of Negwegon."

History
First purchase of land for the park, then known as Alpena State Park, occurred in 1962. Its name was changed in 1970 at the behest of the local citizenry who thought it appropriate for the park to honor the Ojibwe chieftain known to have hunted and camped in the area. In 2016, Negwegon State Park, Thompson's Harbor State Park, and Rockport State Park were designated as Michigan "dark sky preserves."  The Besser Planetarium (from Alpena) hosts celestial viewing events from time to time at the park.

Activities and amenities
The park offers  of hiking trails, primitive camping sites, canoeing, and hunting. The sand road that cuts through the forest and leads to the entrance of the park may require a 4WD/All-wheel drive vehicle. At the boundary between private/county land and state land, the thin sand two-track road, Sand Hill Wilds Road, becomes a very wide groomed gravel road, Negwegon Park Road.

References

External links
Negwegon State Park Michigan Department of Natural Resources
Negwegon State Park Map Michigan Department of Natural Resources

State parks of Michigan
Protected areas of Alpena County, Michigan
Protected areas of Alcona County, Michigan
Protected areas established in 1962
1962 establishments in Michigan
IUCN Category III
Newaygo State Park

Newaygo State Park is a public recreation area covering  on the south side of Hardy Dam Pond in Big Prairie Township, Newaygo County, Michigan. The state park sits atop  embankments overlooking the six-mile-long (10 km),  impoundment of the Muskegon River.

History
The park was created in 1966 when the state leased acreage that included  of water frontage from Consumers Power Company.

Activities and amenities
The park offers swimming, fishing for bass, walleye and panfish, boat launch, picnicking, playground, and 99 rustic campsites.

References

External links
Newaygo State Park Michigan Department of Natural Resources
Newaygo State Park Park Michigan Department of Natural Resources

State parks of Michigan
Protected areas of Newaygo County, Michigan
Protected areas established in 1966
1966 establishments in Michigan
IUCN Category III
Grand Rapids metropolitan area
North Higgins Lake State Park

North Higgins Lake State Park is a public recreation area located  west of Roscommon in Beaver Creek Township, Crawford County, Michigan.  The state park occupies  on the north shore of Higgins Lake at the site of what was once one of the world's largest seedling nurseries.

Features

Higgins Lake Nursery and CCC Museum
The Higgins Lake Nursery and CCC Museum documents the role of the Civilian Conservation Corps in Michigan from 1933 to 1942 when more than 100,000 young Michigan men performed a variety of conservation and reforestation efforts. Exhibits tell the story of how the Michigan CCC planted 484 million trees, spent 140,000 days fighting forest fires and constructed 7,000 miles of truck trails, 504 bridges and 222 buildings. The Michigan state park system carries many examples of their work still in use today, including the MacMullan Conference Center.

Ralph A. MacMullan Conference Center

The Ralph A. MacMullen Conference Center Scenic Site (RAM Center) is a lodge and free-standing facility in the park.  Originally built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s, it currently serves as a retreat center for nonprofit and public sector groups.  It is located on the northern shores of Higgins Lake, northeast of the village of Roscommon between U.S. Route 127 and Interstate 75.

The MacMullen Center was built in a rustic style with a fieldstone exterior. It has a capacity of 135.

Activities and amenities
Park activities include camping, swimming, fishing, picnicking, and boating. There are eleven miles of trails for hiking and cross-country skiing through state forest land adjacent to the park.

References

External links

North Higgins Lake State Park Michigan Department of Natural Resources
North Higgins Lake State Park Map Michigan Department of Natural Resources
 Michigan Department of Natural Resources
 Ralph A. MacMullen Conference Center

Protected areas of Crawford County, Michigan
State parks of Michigan
Civilian Conservation Corps museums
History museums in Michigan
Civilian Conservation Corps in Michigan
Museums in Crawford County, Michigan
Protected areas established in 1965
1965 establishments in Michigan
IUCN Category III
Cremna

Cremna or Kremna (), was an ancient town in Pisidia. It is situated in the district of Bucak. It stands in a remote valley on a high plateau dominating the ancient Cestrus River (today Aksu), with limited access and good defensive features.

It was first taken by Amyntas, commander of the Galatian auxiliary army of Brutus and Cassius, who became king of Galatia and Pisidia on going over to the side of Mark Antony. Octavian allowed him to remain king until his death in 25 BC. After this, it became a Roman colony, as Strabo says; and there are imperial coins with the epigraph COL. IVL. AVG. CREMNA, which stands for Colonia Iulia Augusta [Felix] Cremnena. Its first coins appear to have been minted under Hadrian. Ptolemy mentions the Cremna Colonia, and according to him it is in the same longitude as Sagalassus.

Its water supply posed particular problems and the aqueduct had to include complex and novel solutions. 

The donatio given by the emperor Aurelian (270–275) promised a period of great prosperity for Cremna; but in 276, the town was taken by an Isaurian robber, named Lydius, who used it as a base for looting the region, giving rise to the only visit of a Roman Emperor to the region, that of Marcus Claudius Tacitus. Later, the town was inserted in the Roman province of Pamphylia Secunda. The name of only one of its bishops is known: Theodorus, present at the Second Council of Nicaea in 787. No longer a residential bishopric, Cremna is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see.

At some time in the high Middle Ages, the ancient site of the town was abandoned, the population transferring itself to the present village of Çamlık.

The ancient site was identified in 1874 and excavations began in 1970.

References
 Smith, William (editor); Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, "Cremna", London, (1854)
 Richard Stillwell, William L. MacDonald, Marian Holland McAllister (editors); The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, "Kremna", Princeton, (1976)
 Mitchell, Stephen, with Sarah Cormack, Robin Fursdon, Eddie Owens and Jean Öztürk, Cremna in Pisidia. An Ancient City in Peace and in War (Duckworth Press, London, 1995)

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Archaeological sites in the Mediterranean Region, Turkey
Former populated places in Turkey
History of Burdur Province
Catholic titular sees in Asia
Roman towns and cities in Turkey
Ancient Greek archaeological sites in Turkey
Coloniae (Roman)
Bucak District
Orchard Beach State Park

Orchard Beach State Park is a public recreation area covering  on the shore of Lake Michigan in Manistee Township,  Manistee County, Michigan. Situated on a bluff three miles north of the city of Manistee, the  state park offers camping, hiking trails, and scenic views over Lake Michigan. The beach has been closed due to high lake levels.

History
The park was developed by the Manistee, Filer City and Eastlake Railway Company and opened in 1892. After the company stopped trolley service to the park, the site was purchased by the Manistee Board of Commerce and deeded to the state to become part of the Michigan state park system in 1921.

The Civilian Conservation Corps was active in the park in the 1930s. Corps efforts included construction of several limestone structures including a pavilion, toilet, line house, and pump house. In 2009, the park was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, being cited as "one of the most intact examples of a Michigan state park developed in the 1930s and 1940s under National Park Service guidelines.... retain[ing] the majority of its CCC-era buildings and physical layout." In 2019, the high levels of Lake Michigan were eroding the sandy bluff on which the CCC-built pavilion stands.

In the news
In 2019, it was reported that erosion caused by record high water levels on Lake Michigan threatened the park's historic pavilion with destruction. The pavilion stands  from the edge of the bluff. High water had covered the sandy beach at the base of the bluff, below the pavilion, since 2017, and the stairway built to access the beach from the pavilion led straight into the high waters of Lake Michigan. The pavilion was moved away from the shore in December 2020.

Activities and amenities
The park offers swimming, fishing, three miles of hiking trails, picnicking facilities, and a 166-site campground.

References

External links

Orchard Beach State Park Michigan Department of Natural Resources
Orchard Beach State Park Map Michigan Department of Natural Resources

State parks of Michigan
Beaches of Michigan
Protected areas of Manistee County, Michigan
Protected areas established in 1921
Parks on the National Register of Historic Places in Michigan
Landforms of Manistee County, Michigan
National Register of Historic Places in Manistee County, Michigan
1921 establishments in Michigan
IUCN Category III
Joseph DeLaine

Joseph Armstrong DeLaine (July 2, 1898 – August 3, 1974) was a Methodist minister and civil rights leader from Clarendon County, South Carolina. He received a B.A. from Allen University in 1931, working as a laborer and running a dry cleaning business to pay for his education. DeLaine worked with Modjeska Simkins and the South Carolina NAACP on the case Briggs v. Elliott, which  challenged segregation in Summerton, South Carolina.

DeLaine decided to leave South Carolina, and never returned, after a warrant was issued for his arrest for returning gunfire when his parsonage later came under hostile gunfire. He fled first to New York City and then to Buffalo, New York, where he founded another Methodist church. As a result of efforts begun in 1955, DeLaine was pardoned in 2000 by the South Carolina State Parole Board.

DeLaine also memorably taught school in South Carolina, and in 2006 was inducted into South Carolina's Educational Hall of Honor at the University of South Carolina.

Rev. DeLaine and three other plaintiffs in the Briggs v. Elliott case were posthumously awarded Congressional gold medals in 2004 for their courage and persistence despite repeated acts of domestic violence against them.

In popular culture
Playwright Loften Mitchell wrote a 1963 play based on DeLaine's story titled Land Beyond the River.

Actor Ossie Davis also wrote a short play, The People of Clarendon County, which starred himself, his wife, Ruby Dee, and Sidney Poitier. It was featured, as was the case predating Brown v. Board of Education in which DeLaine played an important role, in Alice Bernstein's illustrated book with the same title.

External links
 Rev. Joseph A. DeLaine in South Carolina African American History Online
 Rev. Joseph A. DeLaine's Papers  South Carolina's South Caroliniana Library and Digital Collections
 Alice Bernstein, The People of Clarendon County (2007 - ), https://www.amazon.com/People-Clarendon-County-Ossie-Davis/dp/0883782871/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1381767028&sr=1-1&keywords=0883782871
 

African-American Methodist clergy
American Methodist clergy
Activists for African-American civil rights
Congressional Gold Medal recipients
People from Clarendon County, South Carolina
Allen University alumni
1898 births
1974 deaths
20th-century American clergy
African-American activists
Religious leaders from South Carolina
Activists from South Carolina
20th-century Methodist ministers
Taufkirchen

Taufkirchen is the name of several places:

Germany (Bavaria) 

 Taufkirchen (bei München), a small community south of Munich, near Oberhaching and Unterhaching in southern Germany
 Taufkirchen (Vils), a municipality in the district of Erding in Bavaria in Germany
 Taufkirchen (Mühldorf), a municipality in the district of Mühldorf in Bavaria in Germany

Austria 
 Taufkirchen an der Pram
 Taufkirchen an der Trattnach
Otsego Lake State Park

Otsego Lake State Park is a public recreation area covering  on the southeast shore of Otsego Lake in Otsego Lake Township, Otsego County, Michigan.

History
The park was among 13 parks established in 1920 following the creation of the Michigan State Parks Commission in 1919. Improvements made by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s included a wood-frame bathhouse constructed in 1934.

Activities and amenities
The park offers fishing, swimming, picnicking facilities, boat launch, and 155-site campground.

References

External links
Otsego Lake State Park Michigan Department of Natural Resources
Otsego Lake State Park Map Michigan Department of Natural Resources

State parks of Michigan
Protected areas of Otsego County, Michigan
Protected areas established in 1920
1920 establishments in Michigan
IUCN Category III
Civilian Conservation Corps in Michigan
Palms Book State Park

Palms Book State Park is a publicly owned nature preserve encompassing  in Thompson Township, Schoolcraft County, in the eastern Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The state park is noted for Kitch-iti-kipi, the "Big Spring" of the Upper Peninsula.

History
The Palms and Book Land Company sold the property to the state in 1926, insisting on the name and a ban on camping. John I. Bellaire arranged for the sale of a  parcel to the state for $10. The arrangement called for the establishment of a park that would be named after the land company. During the 1930s, workers with the Civilian Conservation Corps assisted in making park improvements that included construction of an observation raft, dock, and ranger's quarters.

The spring
Kitch-iti-kipi, the spring, is a pool of clear water 400 feet (120 m) across in its largest dimension, and up to 40 feet (12 m) deep. The spring water can be seen from above as it wells upward through the pond's bottom of bedrock limestone and sand, creating a continual pattern of random eddies and cross-currents in the depths of the pond. To the Anishinaabe people that were the original inhabitants of much of the Upper Peninsula, this site was a place of mystery and wonder. The water is 45 °F (7 °C) in both winter and summer.

Since the days of the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s, the state has operated a manually propelled observation raft. The raft, which is fixed by cables, carries visitors onto the spring pond, allowing the depths of the pond to be seen from above. The pond is stocked with trout.

Indian Lake
More than 10,000 gallons (40,000 liters) of water per minute pass from the pond into nearby Indian Lake. Palms Book State Park protects approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) of lake frontage.

References

External links

Palms Book State Park Michigan Department of Natural Resources
Palms Book State Park Map Michigan Department of Natural Resources

State parks of Michigan
Protected areas of Schoolcraft County, Michigan
Civilian Conservation Corps in Michigan
Protected areas established in 1929
1929 establishments in Michigan
IUCN Category III
Petoskey State Park

Petoskey State Park is a public recreation area covering  on Lake Michigan in Bear Creek Township, Emmet County, Michigan. The state park is located  northeast of the city of Petoskey on Little Traverse Bay. It is surrounded by heavily vegetated sand dunes that are excellent examples of parabolic dunes. Michigan's state stone, the Petoskey stone, can be found on the park beach.

History
The park occupies part of the site where William Wirt Rice (1833–1891) built a tannery in 1885 at the mouth of what came to be called Tannery Creek. The tannery occupied 180 acres that were eventually divided between Petoskey State Park and the commercial district on U.S. Highway 31. At its peak, the tannery employed some 200 workers and processed over 1000 hides—primarily buffalo—per day. The tannery closed in 1952, and its buildings were torn down in 1963. The City of Petoskey purchased a portion of the tannery's land north of Tannery Creek in 1934 and created the Petoskey Bathing Beach. The City of Petoskey purchased a portion of the tannery's land north of Tannery Creek in 1934 and created the Petoskey Bathing Beach. The Michigan Conservation Commission approved the creation of Petoskey State Park on the old tannery lands—with the potentiality of also purchasing the city's bathing beach for inclusion as well—in June 1961. The large southern portion of the park property was purchased by the State in 1962, although no park development occurred for another several years.  The State of Michigan purchased the beach from the City of Petoskey for $150,000 in 1968, took title in 1969, and the first 90 sites in the park's campground opened in June 1970.

Activities and amenities
The park offers a mile-long sand beach for swimming, a trail that ascends the Old Baldy sand dune, picnicking facilities, and a 178-site campground.

References

External links

Petoskey State Park Michigan Department of Natural Resources
Petoskey State Park Map Michigan Department of Natural Resources

Protected areas of Emmet County, Michigan
State parks of Michigan
Protected areas established in 1961
1961 establishments in Michigan
IUCN Category III
WPBX

WPBX (99.3 FM, "Mix 99.3") is a radio station broadcasting an adult contemporary music format. Licensed to Crossville, Tennessee, United States, the station is currently owned by Peg Broadcasting, LLC and features programming from Compass Media Networks and United Stations Radio Networks.

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PBX
Mainstream adult contemporary radio stations in the United States
Cumberland County, Tennessee
Port Crescent State Park

Port Crescent State Park is a public recreation area on Lake Huron  southwest of Port Austin in Huron County at the tip of The Thumb of Michigan. The state park covers  along state route M-25 in Hume Township. The park occupies the site of Port Crescent, a ghost town which once stood at the mouth of the Pinnebog River. The park was designated a Michigan "dark sky preserve" in 2012.

History
The park's first 124 acres were purchased by the state in 1956. One of the last visible remnants of the vanished town of Port Crescent, the 120-foot-tall Pack & Woods Sawmill chimney, was razed in 1961, despite the objections of residents who felt the loss of the local landmark. The park was expanded with the purchase of an additional 455 acres in 1977.

Activities and amenities
The state park offers swimming, picnicking, canoeing, fishing,  of hiking trails, cross-country skiing, and a 142-site campground and cabin.

References

External links
Port Crescent State Park Michigan Department of Natural Resources
Port Crescent State Park Map Michigan Department of Natural Resources

State parks of Michigan
Lake Huron
Protected areas of Huron County, Michigan
Protected areas established in 1955
1955 establishments in Michigan
IUCN Category III
Silver Lake State Park (Michigan)

Silver Lake State Park is a public recreation area covering  that border Lake Michigan and Silver Lake,  west of Mears in Oceana County, Michigan. The state park is composed of mature forest land and over  of sand dunes.

Features
The park is  wide and  long and is divided into three segments: The northern area is an all-terrain vehicle dunes area where private motorized vehicle may be driven, the middle of the park is a non-vehicle area (the Walking Dunes), and the southernmost section is leased to a private operator. The park grounds include the Little Sable Point Light on Lake Michigan and one mile of shoreline on  Silver Lake.

History
The park originated in 1920 when 25 acres on the east side of Silver Lake were donated for park purposes by Carrie E. Mears, the daughter of lumber baron Charles Mears. In 1926, the federal government transferred 900 acres to the state, which became Sand Dunes State Park in 1949. Based upon a 1949 master plan, the two were merged, with Silver Lake State Park seeing its new boundaries dedicated in 1951.

Activities and amenities
The park's recreational opportunities include camping, hunting, swimming, hiking, boating, fishing, picnicking, and off-road vehicle driving. Piping plovers nest in the northern portion of the ORV area.

See also
 Dune bashing

References

External links

Silver Lake State Park Michigan Department of Natural Resources
Silver Lake State Park Map Michigan Department of Natural Resources

Dunes of Michigan
State parks of Michigan
Protected areas of Oceana County, Michigan
Protected areas established in 1920
1920 establishments in Michigan
Landforms of Oceana County, Michigan