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Silver Lake State Park. Silver Lake State Park is a public recreation area covering 2,936 acres (1,188 ha) that border Lake Michigan and Silver Lake, four miles (6.4 km) west of Mears in Oceana County, Michigan. The state park is composed of mature forest land and over 2,000 acres (810 ha) of sand dunes. [3]
0. Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 2501 was a DC-4 operating its daily transcontinental service between New York City and Seattle when it disappeared on the night of June 23, 1950. The flight was carrying 55 passengers and three crew members; the loss of all 58 aboard made it the deadliest commercial airliner accident in America at the time.
Updated July 24, 2024 at 10:39 AM. A man was hospitalized after burning his feet on sand dunes at Death Valley National Park over the weekend amid scorching temperatures that reached up to 123 ...
Pictured Rocks in the distance. Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore is a U.S. National Lakeshore in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, United States. It extends for 42 mi (68 km) along the shore of Lake Superior and covers 73,236 acres (114 sq mi; 296 km 2 ). The park has extensive views of the hilly shoreline between Munising and Grand Marais in ...
The Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore protects 71,199 acres (111 sq mi; 288 km 2) of the shoreline of Lake Michigan. Much of this area is located on the Leelanau Peninsula, a large peninsula in the northwest of Michigan's Lower Peninsula. The park is located about 20 miles (32 km) west of Traverse City, the largest city in Northern ...
August 2, 2024 at 1:29 PM. K. Ross. A college student visiting the Grand Canyon died after an accidental fall near a scenic overlook, park officials said Thursday. Abel Joseph Mejia, 20, fell to ...
It is in the southwest corner of Golden Township, just south of Silver Lake State Park. The lighthouse was designed by Col. Orlando M. Poe and has been described as "a classic Poe tower." The design used 109 1-foot-diameter wood pilings driven into the sand, capped by 12 feet of stone as a stout base for the brick tower. The walls of the tower ...
SS Novadoc was one of three Great Lakes freighters lost in the Armistice Day Storm of 11 November 1940. [1] SS William B. Davock and Anna C. Minch both foundered that same night with complete loss of their crews. All three ships went down between Little Point Sable and Pentwater, Michigan. Unlike the crews of the Davock and Minch, most of the ...