Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The exterior of the visitor center in 2008. The park includes a visitor center, renovated in 2004, which features a museum and auditorium, providing exhibits on the areas cultural and natural history, as well as book and gift shops. [14]: 13 Guided tours of the Hensley Settlement and Gap Cave are provided from the tourist center.
Lake Champlain in Burlington Harbor during sunset on May 27, 2012. Lake Champlain is in the Lake Champlain Valley between the Green Mountains of Vermont and the Adirondack Mountains of New York, drained northward by the 106 mi-long (171 km) Richelieu River into the St. Lawrence River at Sorel-Tracy, Quebec, northeast and downstream of Montreal.
Button Bay State Park is a 253-acre state park in Ferrisburgh, Vermont on the shore of Lake Champlain. [1]Activities includes boating, swimming, camping, fishing, hiking, picnicking, wildlife watching, water sports and winter sports.
President Jimmy Carter signed legislation establishing New River Gorge National River on November 10, 1978 (Pub. L. 95–625).As stated in the legislation, the park was established as a unit of the national park system "for the purpose of conserving and interpreting outstanding natural, scenic, and historic values and objects in and around the New River Gorge, and preserving as a free-flowing ...
Sea Grant Executive Program Leader Kris Stepenuck and UVM Agroecology Fellow Nora Beer prepare to drop a Secchi disk into Lake Champlain to measure water clarity July 18, 2024.
Initially developed as a state forest in 1926. One of West Virginia's first CCC camps was established here in 1933. The largest of West Virginia's state parks, it contains the 11-acre (4 ha) Watoga Lake. A historic district containing the park's 103 CCC resources is listed on the NRHP. [124] [196] [198] [199] Watters Smith Memorial
Oglebay Park is a self-supporting public municipal park, the only one of its kind, located on the outskirts of Wheeling, West Virginia, on 1,650 acres (670 ha).In 1926, Earl W. Oglebay (of Oglebay, Norton, and Company) deeded his estate, Waddington Farms, to the city of Wheeling for the express purpose of public recreation. [5]
44°31′45″N 73°27′40″W / 44.52917°N 73.46111°W / 44.52917; -73.46111. Rivers. Ausable River. Ausable Chasm is a sandstone gorge and tourist attraction located near the hamlet of Keeseville, New York, United States, [1] due west of Port Kent. The gorge is about two miles (3.2 km) long and is about 150 feet (46 m) deep.