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2. List of Indiana state parks - Wikipedia

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   The first state park in Indiana was McCormick's Creek State Park, in Owen County in 1916, followed in the same year by Turkey Run State Park in Parke County. The number of state parks rose steadily in the 1920s, mostly by donations of land from local authorities to the state government. Of the initial twelve parks, only Muscatatuck State Park ...

3. Fort Harrison State Park - Wikipedia

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   Unlike most state parks in Indiana, Fort Harrison is a day-use park, with its only overnight facilities being the inn, The Fort Golf Resort, which was the old officers' club. [13] The fort's eighteen-hole golf course makes the park popular with Indianapolis golfers; it was redesigned by Pete Dye after the fort's closure, making it a 72-par ...

4. Big Bend National Park - Wikipedia

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   Later that year, the park was redesignated Big Bend State Park. In 1935, the United States Congress passed legislation that would enable the acquisition of the land for a national park. [19] The State of Texas deeded the land that it had acquired to the federal government, and on June 12, 1944, Big Bend National Park became a reality. The park ...

5. List of protected areas of Indiana - Wikipedia

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   Mountain Tea State Forest - 1,153 acres (18 km 2); Perry County; Owen–Putnam State Forest - 6,589 acres (47 km 2) Pike State Forest - 4,031.5 acres (9 km 2) Ravinia State Forest - 1,500 acres (38 km 2) Salamonie State Forest – 955.8 acres (11 km 2); Meigs County; Selmier State Forest – 350.4 acres (241 km 2); Scioto and Adams Counties

6. Shades State Park - Wikipedia

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   In the last decades of the 19th century, the area was a resort with a forty-room inn. In the 1930s a man named Joseph Frisz acquired the land in order to protect it and purchased more land around. His heirs sold the land in 1947 to the holding company "Save the Shades", who in turn gave the land to the state to create Indiana's 15th state park.

7. List of nature centers in Indiana - Wikipedia

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   Indiana Dunes State Park Nature Center: Chesterton: Porter: Northern Indiana: 2,182 acres (883 ha), nature center open year round Kirkendall Nature Center: Kokomo: Howard: Central Indiana: website, operated by the City in the 100-acre Jackson Morrow Park, features aquariums, mounts of area mammals, birds, insects, fish, fossils Lilly Nature ...