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Mears State Park was among 13 parks established in 1920 following the creation of the Michigan State Parks Commission a year earlier. [3] The park land, which was once owned by lumber baron Charles Mears, was donated to the state by his daughter Carrie Mears. [4] The park originally comprised only 16 acres "strictly made up of lake sand."
California State Parks is the state park system for the U.S. state of California. The system is administered by the California Department of Parks and Recreation, a department under the California Natural Resources Agency. The California State Parks system is the largest state park system in the United States. [5]
State park Mendocino: 816 330 1958 Preserves two groves of old-growth coast redwoods in the Anderson Valley. [98] Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park: State park Santa Cruz: 4,623 1,871 1953 Boasts its Redwood Grove and other old-growth forest. [99] Henry W. Coe State Park: State park Santa Clara and Stanislaus: 89,164 36,083 1959
Mears died in 1895, and passed the boardinghouse to his daughter, Carrie Ellen Mears. She closed the boardinghouse, but retained ownership until her own death in 1957. At that time, she bequeathed the boardinghouse and surrounding land to the state of Michigan. Part of the bequest became Mears State Park, and part was added to Silver Lake State ...
Anderson Marsh State Historic Park; Antelope Valley Indian Museum State Historic Park; Bale Grist Mill State Historic Park; Benicia Capitol State Historic Park
M. MacKerricher State Park; Malibu Creek State Park; Manchester State Park (California) Marsh Creek State Park (California) McArthur–Burney Falls Memorial State Park
San Juan Bautista State Historic Park; San Pasqual Battlefield State Historic Park; Old Santa Susana Stage Road; Santa Susana Pass; Santa Susana Pass State Historic Park; Shasta, California; Sierra No. 3; Sonoma State Historic Park; Sutter's Fort
The Edward E. Hartwick Memorial Building is a 1-1/2 story rustic log structure built entirely of Michigan pine, and is one of the few remaining examples of the rustic log architecture used in the 1920s and 1930s by the Michigan State Park system.