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National seashores are located in ten states and national lakeshores are in two other states. Florida, North Carolina, and Michigan each have two. The largest national seashore or lakeshore is Gulf Islands, at over 137,000 acres (550 km 2); the smallest is Fire Island, at 19,579 acres (79.23 km 2).
Assateague Island National Seashore is a unit of the National Park Service system of the U.S. Department of the Interior.Located on the East Coast along the Atlantic Ocean in Maryland and Virginia, Assateague Island is the largest natural barrier island ecosystem in the Middle Atlantic states region that remains predominantly unaffected by human development.
Apostle Islands National Lakeshore: Wisconsin: 69,377.43 acres (280.7605 km 2) Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore: Michigan: 73,235.97 acres (296.3755 km 2) Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore: Michigan: 71,318.57 acres (288.6160 km 2)
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (1 C, 9 P) Pages in category "National lakeshores of the United States" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
From multicolored rock cliffs to towering sand dunes, there's no shortage of beauty all around the Great Lakes.
The National Park Service controls 24 units in the state of Maryland. They range from sites of historical interest to sites of ecological interest to portions of the parkway system around Washington, DC. Many of the sites currently under the control of the National Park Service in Maryland were previously under the control of other agencies in ...
Name Image Date Location County Ownership Description Battle Creek Cypress Swamp: April 1965: Prince Frederick: Calvert: private (The Nature Conservancy) One of the northernmost sites of naturally occurring bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) trees in North America, and the only large stand of the trees on the western shore of Maryland.
Previously designated a national lakeshore, parts of this 20-mile (32 km) stretch of the southern shore of Lake Michigan have sandy beaches and tall dunes. The park includes grassy prairies, peat bogs, and marsh wetlands home to over 2,000 species. [70] Isle Royale † Michigan