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In 1993, the state of Indiana was given 859 acres (3.48 km 2), and in 1994 was given an additional 1,125 acres (4.55 km 2) . When the park opened in 1996, it encompassed 2,400 acres (9.7 km 2). With an additional 2,600 acres (10.5 km 2) given by the INAAP in 2004, the park has 5,100 acres (20.6 km 2), making it the third largest state park in ...
My destination for the day was Charlestown State Park. This park first opened in 1996 and contains 5,100 acres. The park was once a part of the huge 15,000-acre Indiana Army Ammunition plant ...
Fourteen Mile Creek, shown as Fourteenmile Creek on federal maps, [1] is a 22.7-mile-long (36.5 km) [2] creek in Clark County, Indiana, close to Charlestown. It is so named because its mouth on the Ohio River is 14 miles (23 km) upstream from the Falls of the Ohio ; similar to how Eighteen Mile Island, Twelve Mile Island, and Six Mile Island ...
Rose Island is an abandoned amusement park near Charlestown, Indiana, situated on a peninsula (the "Devil's Backbone") created by Fourteen Mile Creek emptying into the Ohio River. It was a recreational area known as Fern Grove in the 1880s, mostly used as a church camp. It was so named due to the many ferns that grew there. The Louisville and ...
The first state park in Indiana was McCormick's Creek State Park, in Owen County in 1916, followed in the same year by Turkey Run State Park in Parke County. The number of state parks rose steadily in the 1920s, mostly by donations of land from local authorities to the state government. Of the initial twelve parks, only Muscatatuck State Park ...
Some of these beaches include town operated areas such as "Blue Shutters Town Beach" and "Charlestown Town Beach" and other are state managed areas including "East Beach State Beach" and "Charlestown Breachway State Beach." Burlingame State Park and Campground is entirely contained inside the town of Charlestown. The campground is 3,100 acres ...
Stone fortification and mounds at the Devil's Backbone rock formation. Devil's Backbone is a rock formation and peninsula formed by the flow of Fourteen Mile Creek into the Ohio River, and is currently situated in Charlestown State Park near Charlestown, Indiana, and across the Ohio River from Louisville, Kentucky.
US 1 north then features a ramp, providing access to Cross Mills and Route 1A—leading to Charlestown Breachway State and Charlestown Town beaches—for those just merging in on a U-turn from US 1 south via a junction with Route 2/Route 112 (South County Trail). Another set of U-turn ramps is located for access to Route 2 and Route 112.