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Warren Dunes State Park is a 1,500-acre (610 ha) public recreation area located along the eastern shore of Lake Michigan in Berrien County, Michigan. [2] The state park 's large sand dunes and lakeshore beaches make it one of the most popular of Michigan's state parks with an average of about one million visitors annually.
The woods are named for Edward Kirk Warren (1847-1919), the inventor of the featherbone corset (which replaced the whalebone in corsets with turkey feathers and secured his fortune). Starting in 1879, [3] Warren bought 150 acres (0.61 km 2) of the woods and 250 acres (1.0 km 2) of the dunes, setting them aside for preservation. [4]
The ZIP code is 49125 and the FIPS place code is 71760. The elevation is 654 feet (199 m) above sea level. The unincorporated village is named for Silas Sawyer, an early resident. Shorewood Hills is at . The FIPS place code is 73700.
Location: Bliss Township, Emmet County, Michigan, United States: Nearest town: Mackinaw City, Michigan: Coordinates: 1]: Area: 12,800 acres (5,200 ha): Elevation: 584 feet (178 m) [1]: Established: 1922 (game reserve); 1927 (state park) [2]: Administered by: Michigan Department of Natural Resources: Designation: Michigan state park: Website: Official website: Wilderness State Park is a public ...
The park is 1.5 miles (2.4 km) wide and three miles (4.8 km) long and is divided into three segments: The northern area is an all-terrain vehicle dunes area where private motorized vehicle may be driven, [4] the middle of the park is a non-vehicle area (the Walking Dunes), and the southernmost section is leased to a private operator.
M-109 is the designation of a state trunkline highway in the Lower Peninsula of the US state of Michigan that runs between Empire and Glen Arbor.The highway is a loop connected to M-22 at both ends that allows tourists access to Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore and the Pierce Stocking Scenic Drive located on a section of sandy forest land between Lake Michigan and Glen Lake.
The Coast Guard lifesaving station was built in 1901 and moved to its present location in 1931 before closing in 1941. [6] The Park Service purchased all of the village by the mid-1970s. The last resident, Carolyn Bumgardner, was evicted through eminent domain in November 2007 after a long battle to keep her property.
As of the census [3] of 2000, there were 4,824 people, 2,022 households, and 1,429 families residing in the township. The population density was 27.5 inhabitants per square mile (10.6/km 2).