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Stargazing at Copper Breaks State Park with Milky Way Galaxy. Copper Breaks is an International Dark Sky Park [3] and hosts a stargazing program once a month from April through October. The park's Bortle Scale rating is a Class 2, which indicates there's a very low amount of light pollution there which makes it a great place for celestial ...
Copper Falls State Park is a 3,068-acre (1,242 ha) state park in Wisconsin. The park contains a section of the Bad River and its tributary the Tylers Forks, which flow through a gorge and drop over several waterfalls. Old Copper Culture Indians and later European settlers mined copper in the area.
Copper Breaks State Park [14] is located near the Pease River about 8 miles north of Crowell off State Highway 6. The park is located in neighboring Hardeman County. Comanche Springs Astronomy Campus is located 10 miles west of Crowell off U.S. Highway 70. It is operated as part of the 3 Rivers Ranch by the Texas Tech University System.
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Seven Bends State Park: Woodstock: 1,066 acres (4.31 km 2) 2004 Open Shenandoah River Raymond R. "Andy" Guest Jr. State Park: Bentonville: 1,619 acres (6.55 km 2) 1994 Open Shot Tower Historical State Park: Austinville: 10 acres (0.040 km 2) 1964 Open Sky Meadows State Park: Delaplane: 1,860 acres (7.5 km 2) 1975 Open Smith Mountain Lake State Park
Breaks Interstate Park is located about 5 miles (8 km) east of Elkhorn City, Kentucky. The park covers 4,500 acres (1,800 ha). The park's main feature, Breaks Canyon, is five miles long and ranges from 830 to 1,600 feet (250 to 490 m) deep. The canyon was formed by the Russell Fork river through millions of years of erosion. [9]
The park contains an ancient burial ground used by the Old Copper Complex Culture of early Native Americans, between 5,000 and 6,000 B.C.E. during the Copper Age.It was rediscovered in June 1952 by a 13-year-old boy who unearthed human bones while playing in an old quarry.
The Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument is a national monument in the western United States, protecting the Missouri Breaks of north central Montana.Managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), it is a series of badland areas characterized by rock outcroppings, steep bluffs, and grassy plains; a topography referred to as "The Breaks" (as the land appears to "break away" to the river).