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Parfrey's Glen, located within Devil's Lake State Park, is a Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources-designated State Natural Area. The glen is a deep gorge cut through the sandstone of the south flank of the Baraboo Hills. It was the first State Natural Area to be designated in Wisconsin. [1] The valley was named for Robert Parfrey. [2]
Devils Lake is a lake in the U.S. state of North Dakota.It is the largest natural body of water and the second-largest body of water in North Dakota after Lake Sakakawea.It can reach a level of 1,458 ft (444 m) before naturally flowing into the Sheyenne River via the Tolna Coulee.
Devil's Lake is visible from the vantage point at the formation. [4] The rocks that form Devil's Doorway are quartzite, consisting of tightly packed grains of sand. [5] [6] The geological formations in the area are estimated at 1.6 billion years old. Devil's Doorway was created by many years of water both freezing and expanding in cracks in the ...
The present site of Devils Lake was, historically, a territory of the Dakota people. However, the Sisseton, Wahpeton, and Cut-Head bands of the Dakotas were relocated to the Spirit Lake Reservation as a result of the 1867 treaty between the United States and the Dakota that established a reservation for those who had not been forcibly relocated to Crow Creek Reservation in what is now South ...
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Hiking columnist Susan Anderson recently traversed the 'Devil's Backbone' at Pine Hills Nature Preserve in Indiana.
The area is largely devoted to agriculture. [5] The terrain slopes to the lake, with its highest point at the NE county corner, at 1,631 ft (497 m) ASL. [ 6 ] The county has a total area of 1,301 square miles (3,370 km 2 ), of which 1,187 square miles (3,070 km 2 ) is land and 114 square miles (300 km 2 ) (8.8%) is water.
Devil's Lake has enjoyed a history of rock climbing since early ascents in the 20th century. Climbers such as the Stettner Brothers, and members of the hard-climbing group "DLFA" [20] have frequented the park extensively. Guidebooks cover more than a lifetime's worth of unique "routes" and sub-areas of the park. [21]