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Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore is a U.S. National Lakeshore in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, United States. It extends for 42 mi (68 km) along the shore of Lake Superior and covers 73,236 acres (114 sq mi; 296 km 2 ).
A 1955 NPS survey of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts recommended sixteen areas that would be worthy of protection, [9] five of which would become national seashores. Studies of the Great Lakes and Pacific coast also led to designations, including Pictured Rocks, authorized as the first national lakeshore in 1966. [10]
Melstrand is located outside the national lakeshore in the Lake Superior State Forest. H-58 continues through "burned and cut areas, meadows, maturing second growth, and the haunting sounds of silence" in the state forest. [4] H-58 reenters the national lakeshore and approaches more Pictured Rocks facilities like the Hurricane River Campground.
Hikers called 911 on Nov. 8 after they spotted the person’s body near Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore's Miners Beach along Lake Superior.
H-11 runs from H-58 just east of the city to Miner's Castle within Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. H-13, a north–south route, terminates at H-58 in the eastern part of the city. H-58 begins in downtown Munising and continues northeasterly through Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore.
A waterfall rarely seen in the summer put on a show at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore this week thanks to heavy rains. Park rangers spotted the waterfall, which is better known in the winter as ...
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The Jacobsville Formation was deposited atop rocks of the late Mesoproterozoic Midcontinent Rift. For example, along the Sturgeon River in the Ottawa National Forest, the Jacobsville Sandstone unconformably overlies ca. 1108 million year old Midcontinent Rift basalt on which a soil had developed prior to Jacobsville Sandstone deposition. [32]