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Split Rock Lighthouse State Park encompasses about four miles (6.4 km) of rocky shoreline on Lake Superior with several prominent headlands. Named features of the shore, from southwest to northeast, are the mouth of the Split Rock River, Split Rock Point, Crazy Bay, Corundum Point, the mouth of Split Rock Creek, Day Hill, Little Two Harbors, Stony Point (site of the lighthouse), and Gold Rock ...
Split Rock Lighthouse is a lighthouse located southwest of Silver Bay, Minnesota, US on the North Shore of Lake Superior. The structure was designed by lighthouse engineer Ralph Russell Tinkham and was completed in 1910 by the United States Lighthouse Service for $75,000, including the buildings and the land.
The Split Rock River is a 3.5-mile-long (5.6 km) [2] river of Minnesota, in the United States. It drains a small watershed of about 40 square miles (100 km 2) on the ...
A section of North Shore trail coursing past perhaps one of the most iconic and photographed areas in the Minnesota outdoors will close to hikers beginning May 15. Part of the rugged, 310-mile ...
Split Rock Creek is a stream that flows for 55 miles from a farmers field near Ihlen, Rock County, Minnesota, to east of Sioux Falls, Minnehaha County, South Dakota. The native American name for the creek was Eminija. The creek enters South Dakota east of Sherman, South Dakota. West of Sherman it flows over a cement pad on 486th Avenue.
Minnesota's first attempt to create a state park came in 1885, when a 173-acre (70 ha) park was authorized to preserve Minnehaha Falls.The effort was delayed by legal appeals from the various landowners of the desired parkland, and by the time those were settled in favor of the state in 1889, Minnesota no longer had the money to purchase the land.
The longest completed section runs 17.6 miles (28.3 km) from Gooseberry Falls State Park to the town of Beaver Bay, passing through Split Rock Lighthouse State Park on the way. [1] Another 3-mile (4.8 km) segment runs from Schroeder to Tofte through Temperance River State Park.
Rock River Deputy Treasurer Wilma Hill, a former clerk, has been designated to oversee the Nov. 5 vote. Rock River is a small town of about 1,200 people in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. It is ...