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Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

Philip A. Hart Visitor Center
  • Type: Place

The Philip A. Hart Visitor Center houses brochures, books, park passes, and all the sound advice you'll need to plan your visit. The visitor center has displays of Sleeping Bear Dune's natural history, fauna and flora, geology, history, and stories about people of the park.

Chesapeake Bay

Woodend Nature Sanctuary
  • Type: Place

Woodend Nature Sanctuary offers 40 acres of restored forests, meadows, and streams in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, it features nature trails, interactive exhibits, a nature playground and an historic mansion. Visitors can explore diverse habitats, learn about conservation efforts, and experience the connections between people and nature. Engaging signage and hands-on programs make it a welcoming destination for all ages.

Grand Canyon National Park

Yavapai Geology Museum
  • Type: Place

Open daily: 8 am - 7 pm. Yavapai Geology Museum offers one of the best vantage points for an overview of Grand Canyon geology. The building is right on the very edge of the canyon rim at Yavapai Point, The Museum Features: a bookstore and museum shop, large picture windows for viewing the canyon, and a variety of exhibits about the geology of Grand Canyon. Restrooms are in a separate building adjacent to the parking lot. The shuttle bus stop is also on the parking lot.

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

Wayside: What Does Sleeping Bear Dunes Mean to You?
  • Type: Place

Riparian Vegetation Response to Flow Modification: Water Management Impacts in Canyonlands National Park
  • Type: Article

Rivers, such as the Colorado and Green River, are vital, but limited, resources in the semiarid and arid intermountain west. The Upper Colorado River Basin is the principal water supply of the western United States and supports habitat for a variety of flora and fauna. For nearly a century, managers have been striving to balance water use needs and ecosystem health. Learn how dams and managed flow variability have affected riparian corridors in Canyonlands National Park.

Indiana Dunes National Park

Henry Blake Fuller
  • Type: Person

Henry Blake Fuller was a key figure in the Chicago Literary Renaissance, renowned for pioneering social realism in American literature. He is noted for being one of the first American novelists to explore homosexual themes. Fuller had a complicated love-hate relationship with Chicago. He frequently found solace at Indiana Dunes, which served as a retreat from urban life and a source for inspiration.

Indiana Dunes National Park

The Dune-Faun
  • Type: Article

Author Webb Waldron chronicles his walk at the Indiana Dunes where he stumbles upon a man living among the sands.

Natchez Trace Parkway

Bear Creek Picnic Area, Milepost 313
  • Type: Place

A quiet picnic area along a large creek in the Chickasaw homeland.

Casa Grande Ruins National Monument

Climate and Groundwater Monitoring at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument
  • Type: Article

At Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, the Sonoran Desert Network monitors climate and groundwater. Understanding changes in these closely linked factors helps managers to make informed decisions affecting park flora and fauna, as well as key cultural resources. Learn about our findings for 2018 in this desert park.

White Sands National Park

Permanent Residents, Temporary Visitors
  • Type: Place

Monocacy National Battlefield

Gambrill Mill Picnic Area
  • Type: Place

Located near the historic Gambrill Mill, the picnic area has picnic tables, a pond, and a meadow. Access to Bush Creek and the Monocacy River is a short walk away.

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

Esch Beach
  • Type: Place

This dazzling beach, located at the mouth of Otter Creek, is an ideal place for the whole family. The creek gently empties into Lake Michigan. Kids enjoy wading upriver into the belly of the forest and letting the current drift them toward the lake. **Leashed pets are allowed to the right of Esch Road when facing the water. NO Pets are allowed to the left of Esch Road.**

Elliott Coues House
  • Type: Place

The Elliott Coues House was the Washington D.C. residence of the prominent American ornithologist Elliott C. Coues from 1887 to his death in 1899. While residing at the home, Elliott Coues studied bird species from across the nation and wrote some of the most important texts in North American ornithology.

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

Pine Plantation - Stop #12
  • Type: Place

To survive in the dunes is no easy task. Flora and fauna deal with strong sunlight, poor soils, and constant winds. The wind action alone can dry out plants, expose root systems, or even completely bury vegetation, including trees.The cottonwood is the only common tree of the dunes and is well adapted to the dune environment.

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

Dune Ecology Basswood Tree - Stop #6
  • Type: Place

To survive in the dunes is no easy task. Flora and fauna deal with strong sunlight, poor soils, and constant winds. The wind action alone can dry out plants, expose root systems, or even completely bury vegetation, including trees.The cottonwood is the only common tree of the dunes and is well adapted to the dune environment.

Rocky Mountain National Park

Holzwarth Historic Site - Twin Cabins
  • Type: Place

Fort Pulaski National Monument

Cockspur Island
  • Type: Place

Cockspur Island has several nature trails, a lighthouse and historic Fort Pulaski.

Great Basin National Park

Great Basin National Heritage Area
  • Type: Place

Straddling the Nevada-Utah state line, the Great Basin National Heritage Area lies in the vast, open, quiet expanse of the continent’s basin and range physiographic province characterized by long, high-elevation desert valleys separated by steep, narrow mountain ranges.

Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument

Deasey Ponds
  • Type: Place

Enjoy the view and sounds of the forest at a quiet scenic pond. Deasey Ponds offers opportunities to observe the flora and fauna of a wetland habitat.

San Antonio Missions National Historical Park

“Where I End and You Begin” Mural
  • Type: Place

This beautiful mural, located at the corner of SE Military Drive and Mission Parkway in San Antonio, intertwines elements of local bird species and humans' connection with this historic site.