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Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is a U.S. national lakeshore in the northwestern Lower Peninsula of Michigan.Located within Benzie and Leelanau counties, the park extends along a 35-mile (56 km) stretch of Lake Michigan's eastern coastline, as well as North and South Manitou islands, preserving a total of 71,199 acres (111 sq mi; 288 km 2).
The PSAR team is run by Friends of Sleeping Bear Dunes in conjunction with park officials, said Jesse Lewit, program coordinator for the Friends group. They have about 20 volunteers and try to ...
A legend attributed to the Ojibwe explains the origin of the Manitou Islands and the Sleeping Bear Dunes. Long ago, the bear Mishe Mokwa and her two cubs sought to cross Lake Michigan from the Wisconsin shore to escape a great forest fire. The mother bear made it across, but her twin cubs, although they swam hard behind her, drowned in Lake ...
The first segment of the 22-mile Sleeping Bear Heritage Trail was completed in 2011, and Segment 9 is the last segment of the proposal, said Scott Tucker, superintendent of Sleeping Bear Dunes ...
Aug. 26—HONOR — The Platte River has a new and wider channel for emptying into Lake Michigan within Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. Problem is, nobody knows how it got there. "It is ...
Ownership of the station was later transferred to the National Park Service, and it is now part of the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. [2] Beginning in 1971, and for several summers thereafter, the station served as the visitor center for the Lakeshore. [3] In 1982- 1983, the bulk of the Life Saving Station was restored to its 1931 ...
It is part of Leelanau County and the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. The uninhabited island is 8.277 sq mi (21.44 km 2) in land area and can be accessed by a ferry service from Leland. Guided tours on open-air vehicles are available to visitors, but most traffic is on foot. Larger North Manitou Island lies to its north.
Sleeping Bear Dunes: Michigan: October 21, 1970: 71,198.48 acres (288.1 km 2) Sand dunes reaching 450 ft (140 m) above Lake Michigan on 4 sq mi (10 km 2) of glacial moraines are the centerpiece of one of the state's most popular areas for hiking, camping, and canoeing. Two wilderness islands, marshy wetlands, and maple forests are home to more ...