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Wilderness State Park is a public recreation area bordering Lake Michigan, five miles southwest of Mackinaw City in Emmet County in Northern Michigan. The state park 's 10,512 acres (4,254 ha) include 26 miles (42 km) of shoreline, diverse forested dune and swale complexes, wetlands, camping areas, and many miles of hiking trails. [ 4 ]
Algonac State Park is a public recreation area covering 1,550 acres (630 ha) along the St. Clair River, two miles north of the city of Algonac in St. Clair County, Michigan, United States. The state park 's half mile of river frontage offers a view of passing international freighters .
Waugoshance Point (GNIS ID#1615889) is a 2.5-mile-long (4.0 km) cape [1] or peninsula that juts into Lake Michigan from the northwest coast of the Lower Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan in Emmet County. It separates the Straits of Mackinac to its north from Sturgeon Bay to the south and is part of Wilderness State Park.
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After the National Park Service completed a wilderness study in 2004 and received overwhelming support from the public, Congress designated 80 percent of the land area (35,000 acres (142 km 2)) of the national lakeshore as the Gaylord Nelson Wilderness on December 8, 2004. [15] (Public Law 108-447, Division E, Section 140.)
Pictured Rocks is the site of many of Michigan's waterfalls. Most of the waterfalls resulted from water running over the cliffs of the Munising Formation. This lime and sandstone formation exists between Tahquamenon Falls , some 75 miles (121 km) east, to Laughing Whitefish Falls , 30 miles (48 km) west of the Lakeshore.
The University of Michigan, for example, has the 350 acres (140 ha) Matthaei Botanical Gardens, 350 acres (140 ha) Nichols Arboretum, 777 acres (314 ha) Stinchfield Woods, and the University of Michigan Biological Station with 10,000 acres (4,000 ha) at Douglas Lake and 3,200 acres (1,300 ha) on Sugar Island.
Porcupine Mountains State Park was established in 1945 to protect the area's large stand of old-growth forest, much of it of the "maple-hemlock" type. In 1972, Michigan passed the Wilderness and Natural Areas Act. This act gave the park the new designation of the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park.