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Straits State Park was established in 1924 as a simple day park with the entrance located at the corner of Paro and Hombach street. In the mid-1940s the park was redesigned to allow for approximately 32 tent campsites along the shores of the Straits of Mackinac. Around this time, the entrance to the park changed to the corner of Paro and Church ...
Within the western portion of Straits State Park. New Flint State Park: Genesee: 230 acres 93 ha: 2026: Flint River: Under development, jointly with Genesee County Parks. Holly Oaks ORV Park: Oakland: 235 acres 95 ha: 2021: none: Jointly-managed with Oakland County Parks. Outdoor Adventure Center: Wayne: 0.94 acres 0.38 ha: 2015: Detroit River
Father Marquette National Memorial pays tribute to the life and work of Jacques Marquette, French priest and explorer. The memorial is located in Straits State Park near St. Ignace in the modern-day U.S. state of Michigan, where he founded a Jesuit mission in 1671 and was buried in 1678.
Articles related to state parks in the U.S. state of Michigan. For a manually maintained list, complete with yet-to-be-written articles, see List of Michigan state parks . See also: Template:Michigan state parks
St. Ignace is located along Lake Huron in the Upper Peninsula on the northern side of the Straits of Mackinac. The city serves as a gateway to the state's Upper Peninsula for travelers coming from the Lower Peninsula, as the city is at the north end of the Mackinac Bridge, opposite Mackinaw City.
Map of Mackinac Island showing the state park boundaries. From 1875 to 1895, Mackinac National Park, the second national park in the United States after Yellowstone National Park, included Fort Mackinac and much of Mackinac Island. During the national park years, the troops stationed at Mackinac acted as park rangers.
Fort Michilimackinac State Park is a state park in the U.S. state of Michigan.It is located in Mackinaw City along the Straits of Mackinac.The park contains Fort Michilimackinac, which itself is dedicated a National Historic Landmark and Old Mackinac Point Lighthouse as well as the Old Mackinac Point Lighthouse Signal Tower which contains a foghorn.
A reconstruction of the fort is preserved as the main feature of Colonial Michilimackinac Historic State Park. [4] The present-day village of Mackinaw City developed around the site of the fort, which has been designated as a National Historic Landmark. It is preserved as an open-air historical museum, with several reconstructed wooden ...