|
Site name |
Site
location |
County |
Description |
|
Black River Mouth Access |
|
Alcona |
The site provides access
to Lake Huron with available parking for 30 vehicles, provides rustic
toilets, and a courtesy pier. |
|
Sturgeon Point Lighthouse |
|
Alcona |
|
|
Huron National Forest |
|
Alcona |
|
|
Negwegon State Park |
|
Alcona |
This undeveloped park
provides hiking and hunting opportunities. It is managed out of
Harrisville State Park. |
|
Mich-e-ki-wis Park |
State Avenue |
Alpena |
This site offers a picnic
shelter, artificial ice rink, bathhouse/restroom building, tennis
courts, volleyball courts, ball fields, and two playgrounds. |
|
The Headlands |
E. Wilderness Park Drive |
Alpena |
The site offers over 700
acres of undeveloped woodlands and approximately five miles of mostly
undeveloped Lake Michigan shoreline. |
|
Great Lakes Bottomland
Preserve |
Thunder Bay and Lake Huron |
Alpena |
This site has one of the
highest densities of shipwrecks in Michigan. The preserve is 288
square miles & protects historic, ecologic, & scenic resources. |
|
Bay View Park |
State Avenue |
Alpena |
The park provides a fenced
playground for kids, restroom/shower building, a nearby boat harbor,
picnic area, and an open area used for art fairs. |
|
Blair Street Park |
Blair Street |
Alpena |
The site offers a picnic
area with grills, access to bike paths, and a handicapped-accessible
fishing pier. |
|
Thunder Bay Shores Marine |
400 E. Chisholm St. |
Alpena |
|
|
Thunder Bay Divers |
400 East Chisholm |
Alpena |
This diving charter
service offers a firsthand opportunity to view the historic shipwrecks
in the Thunder Bay Bottomland Preserve. |
|
Partridge Point Road
Access |
|
Alpena |
The site allows boaters to
access Lake Huron's Thunder Bay. It is located 3 miles South of the
city of Alpena just off US 23 on Partridge Pt. Road. |
|
Middle Island Lighthouse |
|
Alpena |
The lighthouse is owned by
the Coast Guard while the rest of the island is privately owned. The
keepers quarters, tool shed, & two privies are restored. |
|
Thunder Bay Island |
|
Alpena |
The island is located 4
miles East (offshore) of Section 36. It is about 11 miles East of the
City of Alpena. |
|
Sink Hole |
El Cajon Bay |
Alpena |
|
|
Thomson Park |
State Avenue |
Alpena |
Thomson Park receives
heavy seasonal usage and is renowned for its excellent beach/swimming
area. |
|
Squaw Bay Wetland Area |
US 23 S |
Alpena |
Deemed an environmentally
sensitive area. |
|
Rockport Property |
|
Alpena |
It offers hiking trails,
eight large limestone sinkholes, and several square miles of forested
land. |
|
Outdoor Nature Classroom |
N. Partridge Point Rd. |
Alpena |
Privy's will be available
- wheelchair accessible. School bus parking is also available. |
|
Middle Island |
|
Alpena |
|
|
Beach Park |
End of Lake Street |
Alpena |
The site offers a
playground, picnic pavillion, bathhouse, a picnic tables. |
|
Rockport South |
|
Alpena |
|
|
El Cajon Bay |
|
Alpena |
|
|
Squaw Bay Nature
Conservancy |
|
Alpena |
|
|
Ossineke Pathway |
|
Alpena |
The pathway provides a
nature walk, about one mile, through various upland/lowland forest
types. Opportunities to view wildlife in various habitats as well. |
|
Partridge Point Marina,
Inc. |
1105 N. Partridge Pt. Road |
Alpena |
The marina provides 100
boat slips, hoist, fuel, boat repair service, indoor/outdoor storage,
and clubhouse. Diving and fishing charters also are available |
|
Alexander Henry Waterfront
Park |
|
Cheboygan |
Interpretive Trail, Bridge
/ Straits viewing area Picnic facilities, telescope, Old Mackinaw
Point Lighthouse. |
|
Huron Shores Roadside Park |
US-23 |
Cheboygan |
|
|
Cheboygan State Park |
4490 Beach Road |
Cheboygan |
Picnic areas, hunting,
wildlife viewing, beach, trails 78 camping sites, lighthouse viewing |
|
Cattail Marsh Preserve |
|
Cheboygan |
walkways |
|
Mackinac Straits Roadside
Park |
US-23 |
Cheboygan |
Highway roadside park;
scenic views of Bois Blanc Island |
|
Fishing & Observation pier
(State Dock) |
Huron Ave. |
Cheboygan |
Development of the pier is
still being considered; Could be site of Great Lakes Lighthouse
Museum; proposed band shell. |
|
Mackinaw City Municipal
Marina |
Huron Ave. |
Cheboygan |
Veterans Memorial, links
to Wawatam park, interpretive display. 102 Boat slips |
|
Wawatam Park |
Huron Ave. |
Cheboygan |
Connects to downtown by
sidewalk and Sinclair Park. Interpretive display, Straits viewing,
telescope, picnic |
|
Depeyster Streetend Park |
|
Cheboygan |
Interpretive Trail, Bridge
/ Straits viewing Picnic area, telescope |
|
Grass Lake Preserve |
US-23 |
Cheboygan |
|
|
Sinclair Steetend Park |
|
Cheboygan |
Bridge / Straits viewing,
interpretive trail, picnic benches |
|
Fort Michilimackinac State
Park |
|
Emmet |
Historic Fort; Open May 15
to October 15 and some winter weekends |
|
Mackinaw City Bathing
Beach 2 |
E. Wilderness Park Drive |
Emmet |
Sandy Beach, restroom
facilities |
|
Mackinaw City Bathing
Beach 1 |
E. Wilderness Park Drive |
Emmet |
Sandy beach, restrooms |
|
Straits of Mackinac
Bottomland Preserve |
|
Multiple |
Shipwreck diving |
|
Besser Natural Area |
Bell Bay Road |
Presque Isle |
Site of abandoned Village
of Bell, Virgin Pine Forest |
|
Huron Dunes Roadside Park |
US-23 |
Presque Isle |
|
|
Hammond Bay Harbor |
US-23 |
Presque Isle |
Harbor of Refuge, Good
Depth Hard Surface Boat Launch |
|
Hammond Bay Biological
Station |
|
Presque Isle |
|
|
Forty Mile Point County
Park |
US-23 |
Presque Isle |
Forty Mile Point Light |
|
Sacred Rock |
|
Presque Isle |
|
|
P.H. Hoeft State Park |
US 23 |
Presque Isle |
144 site campground,
hunting and fishing Picnic facilities |
|
Seagull Point |
US-23 |
Presque Isle |
Dune formations |
|
North Shore Park |
|
Presque Isle |
|
|
Lakeside Park |
Lake St. |
Presque Isle |
Festival grounds,
playgrounds, picnic areas, good beach, tennis courts, volleyball
courts, mobile band shell |
|
South Shore Park |
Calcite Road |
Presque Isle |
Ball fields, 1/2 mile of
beach front |
|
Presque Isle Lighthouse
Park |
Grand Lake Road |
Presque Isle |
New Presque Isle Light,
picnic areas, tip of Presque Isle Peninsula Museum in Lighthouse
Keepers quarters |
|
Presque Isle Harbor
Development |
|
Presque Isle |
(with more details, this
should be broken into multiple properties) |
|
Camp Chickagami |
Boys Camp Road |
Presque Isle |
Privately owned and
operated summer camp |
|
Thompson's Harbor State
Park |
US-23 |
Presque Isle |
Undeveloped park, 7 1/2
miles of Lake Michigan shoreline Bird and wildlife viewing, |