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Pere Marquette Beach in Muskegon, Michigan is a 27.5-acre (11.1 ha) park comprising 2.5 miles (4.0 km) of public beach on Lake Michigan. [1] In 2004 the beach appeared on lists of certified clean beaches published by the National Healthy Beaches Campaign and the Clean Beaches Council. [2]
Pere Marquette Beach is the largest free public beach on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan. Windsurfing, kite boarding competitions, and professional volleyball tournaments are held there. Its quartz sand beach is expansive and bordered by large sand dunes. The beach area is popular with cyclists, runners, and hikers, and families.
In 1675, Father Jacques Marquette, French missionary and explorer, died and was laid to rest near the modern site of Ludington. [6] A memorial and 40-foot (12 m) iron cross were built in 1955 to mark the location. In 1845, Burr Caswell moved to the area near the mouth of the Pere Marquette River as a location for trapping and fishing. In July ...
The center also has live animals and an auditorium and offers many nature programs for the public. [5] There are ten miles (16 km) of hiking trails, including the Dune Climb Stairway, the Walk-a-Mile, and Homestead trails. [5] Three miles (4.8 km) of trail are groomed in the winter for cross-country skiing. There are two campgrounds and a beach ...
MUSKEGON, MI. — It was back in early winter 2015 when we had just recorded the coldest February on record in West Michigan. The ice on Lake Michigan at/near the shore was about 12 to 18 inches ...
There are several trail-ways in the Pere Marquette, the longest of which are the Muncie Lake Pathway, at 11.5 miles (18.5 km) in length; the VASA Pathway, at 16.7 miles (26.9 km); and the Cadillac Pathway, at 11.3 miles (18.2 km). The trails are well suited to biking, hiking and cross country skiing.
The Pere Marquette 1225 typically pulls hundreds of passengers on a 4½-hour excursion from Owosso to Ashley on weekends beginning in late November. One of Michigan's most famous trains, the Pere ...
Marquette State Park ( –1947) – now a subdivision of homes west of Marquette; Munuskong State Park – a Dodge Brothers state park on Munuscong Bay northeast of Pickford, now part of the Munuscong State Wildlife Management Area; Paw Paw State Park – (c.1921–c.1927) in Paw Paw on Maple Lake