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Bow Lakes Area - A Hidden Gem of Sleeping Bear Dunes NL
I’ve hiked most places in Sleeping Bear Dunes, but one place I had never been is the Bow Lakes area. This part of the park hasn’t been developed at
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High & Dry on Sleeping Bear Pt.
Yesterday I was walking the beach from the Maritime Museum to North Bar Lake picking up trash and doing the botulism survey looking for dead birds and fish.
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Cannery Gets A Lift
The Glen Haven Canning Company building on the shore of Lake Michigan in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is back on the ground.
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Step into History - Port Oneida Fair August 13 & 14
Added by Kerry Kelly on August 7, 2010 at 4:53pm — No Comments
Sandhill Cranes Enjoy the Summer at Sleeping Bear Dunes
This pair of Sandhill Cranes was strutting around the Kelderhouse farm in the Port Oneida Rural Historic District of the park. I was driv
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What is that Purple Haze?
As you drive along in Northern Michigan and look out across the meadows, you might wonder what is causing the fields to look so pretty. That pur
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Beaches, Dogs, Plover
If you’ve got a dog that loves the water, you know how much fun it is to take them the beach. In Northern Michigan, it can be hard to find a place where you and y
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Biking Through Sleeping Bear Dunes
I got my bike out this week to ride with Ryan Locke, one of the Interpretive Rangers at the Lakeshore on a couple of bike tours. It w
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A New Home for Phoebe
A wind storm in May, 2009 blew down one of the historic barns in the Port Oneida Rural Historic District of Sleeping Bear Dunes Nation
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Our Lake Michigan Beaches - It doesn't get any better than this!
I was on the beach this weekend and a lot of people were enjoying the warm weather and bright sun too. The beach and water was
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Be Careful Where You Step!
I was out for a hike with some friends earlier this week and nearly stepped on some freshly sprouted Indian Pipe flowers right in the middle of the trail. Of course, I didn't have my camera, so today I went back to capture these little white flowers in a photo for you. I found the ones I had originall
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The Treasure has been Found!
Ha! After an afternoon of hiking the woods of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in search of Showy Lady's Slippers without success,I got some additional direction and found my reward.
In fact, this little-used unofficial trail near Good
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Things were Humming at the Thoreson Farm in Port Oneida
The Glen Arbor Art Association sponsored a concert by Three Men and a Tenor at the historic Thoreson Farm in the Port Oneida Rural Histo
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Off-the-Map Hike in Sleeping Bear Dunes NL
It’s Father’s Day and we decided to take a trip to Good Harbor Bay to walk along the beach and through the forest that parallels the lake. We were
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Restoring Historic Farms - Sleeping Bear Dunes
Restoring Historic Farms – Sleeping Bear Dunes
Check it out! Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore has been fixing up many of the historic farm buildings and houses in the park this spring. Projects are going on throughout the Port Oneida Rural Historic District and th
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Piping Plover Update - Sleeping Bear Dunes
Piping plover, an endangered bird species that makes it’s home in the Great Lakes, nests in a few places in Sleeping Bear Dunes Nation
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Where's the Bear at Sleeping Bear Dunes?
Beware the Bears! Are there bears in Sleeping Bear Dunes? Yes – and not just the Mother Bear Dune or the baby bear Manitou Islands. Real bears roam the wilderness at Sleeping Bear Dunes. This past week, there have been several reports of bear sightings in the southern part of the park around the Platte River or Otter Creek areas!
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Visit the Glen Haven Blacksmith Shop - A Fun Way to Learn History
There aren’t many places in Michigan where you can walk into an 1865 blacksmith shop and watch the blacksmith at work, but you can do it a
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Sleeping Bear Dunes - Glen Haven Days
When you think of Sleeping Bear Dunes, the images that probably come to mind are of tall pure sand dunes, pristine b
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Camping at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
There’s no better way to immerse yourself in nature than to go camping. And no matter what kind of camping you enjoy,
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