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Lake of the Pines is located in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California, at 4]. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 1.8 square miles (4.7 km 2), of which, 1.5 square miles (3.9 km 2) of it is land and 0.4 square miles (1.0 km 2) of it (19.00%) is water.
Hartwick Pines State Park is a public recreation area covering 9,335 acres (3,778 ha) in Crawford County near Grayling and Interstate 75 on the Lower Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. The state park contains an old-growth forest of white pines and red pines , known as the Hartwick Pines .
The two-state protected area began with donations of 1,922 acres (778 ha) and 2,530 acres (1,020 ha) given to Wisconsin and Michigan, respectively, in 1997 by the Richard King Mellon Foundation and The Conservation Fund.
The camp consists of 840 acres (3.4 km 2) of northern hardwood forest, wetlands and Lake Arrowhead, a 90-acre (360,000 m 2) private lake. 618 of the 840 is used as the main scout camp, the remaining 24 acres (0.1 km 2) is a family camp; where families can stay when their kids are at camp. Part of Big Williams Lake is also on camp property.
Shrine of the Pines is a property south of Baldwin, Michigan on highway M-37. It is significant for its collection of early 20th-century American craft furniture. Created by Raymond W. Overholzer over the course of nearly 30 years from the early 1920s until his death in 1952, the collection was intended as a memorial to the eastern white pine which had been logged to near extinction in ...
In the late 1930s, two group camps in the Yankee Springs Recreation Area were constructed by the National Park Service's Recreation Development Area program: the Long Lake Outdoor Center and the nearby Chief Noonday Outdoor Center, also on the Register.
Lake Station was originally part of Surrey Township until Garfield Township was created in 1897. By 1877, a community named Lake Station formed around the train depot. A post office named Crooked Lake opened on February 28, 1877, with railroad agent Charles Howard Bates serving as the first postmaster. The name came from the nearby Crooked Lake.
Most of the area is served by the Stanwood ZIP code 49346, [6] although "Canadian Lakes, Michigan", is an acceptable name for mail delivery by the post office. [7] The village of Stanwood is 7 miles (11 km) west of the community.