Whitefish Dunes State Park

Whitefish Dunes State Park
Wisconsin State Park
Beach
Country United States
State Wisconsin
County Door
Location Sturgeon Bay
 - coordinates
Area 865 acres (350 ha)
Founded 1967
Management Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
IUCN category V - Protected Landscape/Seascape

Whitefish Dunes State Park is a 865-acre (350 ha)[1] Wisconsin state park on the eastern shore of the Door Peninsula. This day-use park preserves the most substantial sand dunes on the western shore of Lake Michigan. The remains of eight successive prehistoric Native American villages are on the National Register of Historic Places as Whitefish Dunes-Bay View Site.

The Whitefish Dunes Nature Center features exhibits about the ecology, geology and cultural history of the park. The center is open year round. Programs are offered about the park's natural history and cultural history.

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References

  1. ^ "Whitefish Dunes State Park". Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources State Parks. http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/land/parks/specific/whitefish/. 

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