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Adjacent the falls are the Ocqueoc Falls Bicentennial Pathway, a 6.3-mile (10.1 km) universally-accessible trail, [4] and the Ocqueoc Falls State Forest Campground. [3] At the falls, the Ocqueoc River drops 5 feet (1.5 m) before entering a small gorge with rocky walls. [5] Below the gorge, the Ocqueoc River flows to Hammond Bay, a bay of Lake ...
Ocqueoc Falls [8] are the largest waterfalls in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan with a drop of about 5 feet (1.5 m). The falls and the Ocqueoc Falls Bicentennial Pathway, which offers groomed winter trails and summer hiking trails, are a tourist attraction of Presque Isle County. The Ocqueoc River is one of the few rivers in the Lower Peninsula ...
The heavily wooded park sits on 1-mile (1.6 km) of Lake Huron shoreline and offers 143 campsites along with 4 miles (6.4 km) of hiking trails, hunting, play grounds, a picnic pavilion and a lodge erected in the late 1930s by the Civilian Conservation Corps. 8: Ocqueoc Falls Highway–Ocqueoc River Bridge: December 17, 1999
Early Native Americans living in the area were nomadic, using the land as hunting grounds.To them the land between the Ocqueoc and Swan Rivers was sacred ground. The name "Presque Isle" was given to the area by French fur traders who portaged over the strip of land that attaches Presque Isle to the mainland.
From 2003 to 2006, the National Park Service commemorated the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition with the Corps of Discovery II traveling exhibit. [ 6 ] The 2019 John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act extended the Trail an additional 1,200 miles (1,900 km) along the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers from ...
Bikecentennial Route. Bikecentennial '76 was an event consisting of a series of bicycle tours on the TransAmerica Bicycle Trail across the United States in the summer of 1976 in commemoration of the bicentennial of America's Declaration of Independence. [1]
Camp Black Lake consists of eight buildings: two barracks, a wash house (originally a third barracks), mess hall, administrative headquarters, hospital, garage and oil storage building. Two additional buildings located on the site, a frame and a log classroom, were constructed later. The buildings sit on a 17-acre site on Ocqueoc Lake.
The Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail is a cooperative effort of the National Park Service, the U.S. Forest Service, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Overmountain Victory Trail Association, the N.C. Division of Parks and Recreation, local governments, local citizens' associations, local historical societies and the states of ...