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The Menominee Park Zoo is a free, small 8-acre (3.2 ha) zoo located in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, within Menominee Park, operated by the Oshkosh Zoological Society. [ 1 ] Menominee Park is the city's largest park located on the near north side of Oshkosh on Lake Winnebago .
It was created in 2010 in conjunction with the Menominee River State Recreation Area on the Michigan side of the border river. The Wisconsin park is located in the towns of Niagara, Pembine, and Beecher in Marinette County in northeast Wisconsin. The 6,563-acre (2,656 ha) park comprises an undeveloped northern unit and a southern portion with ...
The park comprises a 145.35-acre (58.82 ha) tract along 1.5 miles (2.4 km) of the Menominee River south of the City of Norway and the 2,208.83-acre (893.88 ha) Quiver Falls Tract along eight miles (13 km) of the river farther downstream. In 2016, an additional 525-acre (212 ha) of Escanaba State Forest land was transferred from the Forestry ...
It was deeded back to the state in 2021 and redesignated a State Park in 2022. Menominee River State Park and Recreation Area: Marinette: 6,563 2,656 2010 Menominee River: Protects several miles of the Menominee River in conjunction with Michigan's Menominee River State Recreation Area. [40] Merrick State Park: Buffalo: 320 130 1932 Mississippi ...
J.W. Wells State Park (also known as Wells State Park) is a state park in the U.S. state of Michigan. The 678-acre (2.74 km 2) park is located in Menominee County on the shore of Lake Michigan's Green Bay, just south of Cedar River. [2] It is on M-35, roughly midway between Menominee and Escanaba.
Almost one year after being closed as an archaeological site, the winding road through Oshkosh’s Menominee Park has been reopened for public use.
Menominee (/ m ə ˈ n ɒ m ə n i / mə-NOM-ə-nee) is a city and the county seat of Menominee County, Michigan in the Upper Peninsula. The population was 8,488 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Menominee County. [5] Menominee is the fourth-largest city in the Upper Peninsula, behind Marquette, Sault Ste. Marie, and Escanaba.
The park was established in 1925 through a donation by the children of John Walter Wells, a pioneer lumberman in the area and the mayor of Menominee for three terms beginning in 1893. Many of the park's buildings, landscaping and water and sewage systems were built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s and 1940s. 11