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Split Rock Lighthouse State Park encompasses about four miles (6.4 km) of rocky shoreline on Lake Superior with several prominent headlands. Named features of the shore, from southwest to northeast, are the mouth of the Split Rock River, Split Rock Point, Crazy Bay, Corundum Point, the mouth of Split Rock Creek, Day Hill, Little Two Harbors, Stony Point (site of the lighthouse), and Gold Rock ...
Split Rock Lighthouse is a lighthouse located southwest of Silver Bay, Minnesota, US on the North Shore of Lake Superior. The structure was designed by lighthouse engineer Ralph Russell Tinkham and was completed in 1910 by the United States Lighthouse Service for $75,000, including the buildings and the land.
Splitrock is an abandoned townsite in Beaver Bay Township, Lake County, Minnesota, United States; located at the mouth of the Split Rock River. Splitrock was inhabited from 1899 to 1906 as a company town to house workers for a logging operation. The site is now within the borders of Split Rock Lighthouse State Park.
Split Rock Lighthouse State Park: Lake: 2,112 855: 1945: Lake Superior, Split Rock River: Surrounds the clifftop Split Rock Lighthouse, one of the most photographed lighthouses in the United States. [92] The lighthouse is a National Historic Landmark.
Split Rock Lighthouse on the North Shore of Lake Superior in a Minnesota state park nine miles southwest of Silver Bay. Winter along the North Shore. The North Shore of Lake Superior runs from Duluth, Minnesota, United States, at the western end of the lake, to Thunder Bay and Nipigon, Ontario, Canada, in the north, to Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario in the east.
The parks are Gooseberry Falls, Split Rock Lighthouse, Tettegouche, George H. Crosby Manitou State Park, Temperance River State Park, Cascade River State Park, Judge C.R. Magney State Park, and Grand Portage State Park. The Two Harbors area is host to numerous outdoor events each year, including the challenging Heck of the North gravel bike race.
Silver Bay is a city in Lake County, Minnesota, United States.The population was 1,857 at the time of the 2020 census. [6] It is the largest population center in a natural tourism area which includes Tettegouche State Park and the Split Rock Lighthouse.
The Split Rock River is a 3.5-mile-long (5.6 km) [2] river of Minnesota, in the United States. It drains a small watershed of about 40 square miles (100 km 2 ) on the North Shore of Lake Superior .