|
Site name |
Site
location |
County |
Description |
|
Greenbush Recreation Area |
|
Alcona |
|
|
Main Street Park |
|
Alcona |
The park offers an
overlook providing great viewing opportunities of Lake Huron. |
|
Huron National Forest |
|
Alcona |
|
|
Negwegon State Park |
|
Alcona |
This undeveloped park
provides hiking and hunting opportunities. It is managed out of
Harrisville State Park. |
|
Island Park |
US 23 & Long Rapids Rd. |
Alpena |
The site offers
opportunities to view native plants and wildlife in natural habitats.
The land is maintained by the Alpena Wildlife Sanctuary Committee. |
|
Alpena Cnty Fairgrounds
Access |
|
Alpena |
The launch provides access
to the Thunder Bay River and provides parking for 7 vehicles. The ramp
has a gravel surface of limited depth. |
|
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. |
|
Thomson Park |
State Avenue |
Alpena |
Thomson Park receives
heavy seasonal usage and is renowned for its excellent beach/swimming
area. |
|
Blair Street Park |
Blair Street |
Alpena |
The site offers a picnic
area with grills, access to bike paths, and a handicapped-accessible
fishing pier. |
|
South Riverfront Park |
Water Street |
Alpena |
The location is composed
of three parcels of land which are landscaped, offer concrete
walkways, dock fishing, and provide docking of watercraft. |
|
Arthur Sytek Park |
Bagley Street Bridge |
Alpena |
The park is owned by the
city and leased to the road commission. It provides a canoe launch
site, fishing access, and is landscaped with wildflowers. |
|
Gleason Roadside Park |
M-32 & Eleventh Ave. |
Alpena |
This roadside park is
maintained by the county road commission. The park offers wildlife
viewing, picnic area, and fishing opportunities. |
|
Rockport Property |
|
Alpena |
It offers hiking trails,
eight large limestone sinkholes, and several square miles of forested
land. |
|
Monaghan Point |
5862 Monaghan Point Rd. |
Alpena |
Open pit with historic
straits visible. It has been visited by the the Smithsonian Institute. |
|
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. |
|
Sink Hole |
El Cajon Bay |
Alpena |
|
|
Squaw Bay Wetland Area |
US 23 S |
Alpena |
Deemed an environmentally
sensitive area. |
|
Michigan Nature
Association |
South of Grass Lake |
Alpena |
|
|
Middle Island |
|
Alpena |
|
|
Wildlife Sanctuary |
|
Alpena |
Backwaters of the Thunder
Bay River located within the city of Alpena provide habitat for geese,
swan, duck, blue heron, beaver, otter, and muskrat. |
|
Rockport South |
|
Alpena |
|
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El Cajon Bay |
|
Alpena |
|
|
Squaw Bay Nature
Conservancy |
|
Alpena |
|
|
Alexander Henry Waterfront
Park |
|
Cheboygan |
Interpretive Trail, Bridge
/ Straits viewing area Picnic facilities, telescope, Old Mackinaw
Point Lighthouse |
|
Cheboygan State Park |
4490 Beach Road |
Cheboygan |
Picnic areas, hunting,
wildlife viewing, beach, trails 78 camping sites, lighthouse viewing |
|
Depeyster Streetend Park |
|
Cheboygan |
Interpretive Trail, Bridge
/ Straits viewing Picnic area, telescope |
|
Sinclair Steetend Park |
|
Cheboygan |
Bridge / Straits viewing,
interpretive trail, picnic benches |
|
Wawatam Park |
Huron Ave. |
Cheboygan |
Connects to downtown by
sidewalk and Sinclair Park. Interpretive display, Straits viewing,
telescope, picnic |
|
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. |
|
Ocqueoc Falls Bicentennial
Pathway |
Ocqueoc Falls Road |
Presque Isle |
Waterfall, picnic area |
|
Underground River |
|
Presque Isle |
|
|
Sacred Rock |
|
Presque Isle |
|
|
Presque Isle Harbor |
Grand Lake Road |
Presque Isle |
Public Harbor; harbor
view, fishing of breakwater |
|
Quarry View Roadside Park |
|
Presque Isle |
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