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Lakeshore State Park is a 22-acre (8.9 ha) Wisconsin state park located on the shores of Lake Michigan in the city of Milwaukee. [1] It is situated adjacent to both Discovery World and Henry Maier Festival Park. [2] [3] It is the only urban state park in Wisconsin and features restored prairie and a pebble beach.
City-owned park. The last trace of a Milwaukee fishing village that had been settled by Kaszubs on Jones Island. Smallest park in Milwaukee. [39] Kilbourn Reservoir 750 E North Ave 35-acre (140,000 m 2) The park was created with the removal of a 135-year-old underground drinking water reservoir that once held 20 million gallons of water.
There are over 15,000 lakes in Wisconsin. Of these, about 40 percent have been named. Excluding Lake Michigan and Lake Superior, Lake Winnebago is the largest lake by area, largest by volume and the lake with the longest shoreline. The deepest lake is Wazee Lake, at 350 feet (107 meters). The deepest natural lake is Green Lake, at
A bacteria information sign is seen at South Shore beach, as construction to rehabilitate and relocate the beach further south along Lake Michigan will begin in October, on Friday October 4, 2024 ...
Bradford Beach is a public beach in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The beach which was constructed in the 1920s is part of Lake Park ; a mile (1.6 km)-long park on a bluff above Lake Michigan . Lake Park was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 22, 1993.
After the National Park Service completed a wilderness study in 2004 and received overwhelming support from the public, Congress designated 80 percent of the land area (35,000 acres (142 km 2)) of the national lakeshore as the Gaylord Nelson Wilderness on December 8, 2004. [15] (Public Law 108-447, Division E, Section 140.)
Lake Park in 1890. Historic North Point Lighthouse at left, in background.. Covering 138.1-acre (559,000 m 2) on the shore of Lake Michigan, [2] the park is part of a mostly contiguous stretch of lakefront amenities that extend north from Milwaukee's downtown, including Bradford Beach, various parks, McKinley Marina, and the Milwaukee Art Museum.
Jones Island is an industrialized peninsula in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. [1] It began as a marsh island between the Milwaukee and Kinnickinnic rivers, and now forms the city's inner harbor design. View of Kaszube's Park from the street Fishing Gear on Jones Island, 1912 Jones Island Docks; the 2 women were school teachers waiting for the boat back ...