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This is a list of Michigan state parks and related protected areas under the jurisdiction or owned by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Parks and Recreation Division. A total of 104 state parks, state recreation areas and trail state parks currently exist along with eight other sites as well as 16 state harbors on the Great Lakes .
The park consists of the former city-owned St. Aubin Park and Marina and an adjacent reclaimed brownfield. The park area was taken over by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources in 2004 as Tri-Centennial State Park to commemorate the founding of Fort Detroit in 1701. It was Michigan's first state park to be situated in an urban area.
A number of different local government bodies operate parks and protected areas. These include city parks which may be no more than a green space in a city to large regional park systems like the 24,000 acre (97 km 2) Huron-Clinton Metroparks. Michigan has county parks, township parks and at least one soil conservation district park among other ...
City State or province Date Arnold Arboretum: Boston: Massachusetts: 1877 Back Bay Fens, Arborway and Riverway: Boston: Massachusetts: 1890s–1900 Bayard Cutting Arboretum State Park: Great River: New York, on Long Island: Beardsley Park: Bridgeport: Connecticut: 1884 Belle Isle Park: Detroit: Michigan: master plan and landscape in the 1880s ...
Downriver communities near Detroit and Dearborn (such as Allen Park, Lincoln Park, Wyandotte, River Rouge, Melvindale and Ecorse) were developed in the 1920s-1940s and are identified by brick and mortar homes (often bungalows), tree-lined streets and Works Progress Administration-designed municipal buildings, typical also of the homes within Detroit's city limits.
Map of the United States with Michigan highlighted. Michigan is a state located in the Midwest region of the United States. According to the 2020 United States Census, Michigan is the 10th most populous state with 10,077,331 inhabitants and the 22nd largest by land area spanning 56,538.90 square miles (146,435.1 km 2) of land. [1]
The Michigan Condensed Milk Factory (owned by the Borden family) was constructed in 1908 and used as a creamery until 1960. After laying vacant for 40 years, it was refurbished in 2003–2009, and now houses the offices of the City of Mount Pleasant. 3: Mount Pleasant Downtown Historic District: Mount Pleasant Downtown Historic District
Kensington Metropark is a unit of the Huron–Clinton Metroparks system located between Milford and South Lyon, Michigan, USA. Surrounding Kent Lake , the park covers 4,543 acres (18.13 km 2 ). It has wooded hilly terrain and surrounds 1,200-acre (4.9 km 2 ) Kent Lake (a dammed section of the Huron River ).