Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore News

Superintendent Dusty Shultz has announced that Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore will soon offer more campsite reservations at Platte River Campground through the National Recreation Reservation Service .

To honor Americaa s service men and women, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced on Tuesday, November 3, 2009 that areas managed by the Department of the Interior will not charge entrance fees on Wednesday, November 11, 2009.

Permits are still available for the North Manitou Island special deer hunt within Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.

Monday, October 26, 2009 at 8:47 a.m. You seem them all over Northern Michigan. Row after row of perfectly planted, perfectly spaced, and usually perfectly straight pines.

October 13, 2009 08:04 am Published: October 12, 2009 07:05 am Editorial: Cheers: 10/12/2009 -- To Traverse City filmmaker Rich Brauer for his latest movie, "Fitful," filmed aboard the City of Milwaukee, a historic railroad car ferry moored in Manistee.

Whether driving through the woods of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Park or further north to the lighthouse in Leelanau State Park, spectacular scenery lies around every turn on Michigan's Leelanau Peninsula.

Hide Video Think of it as a temporary patch to keep the state running. Michigan's operating under a continuation budget until lawmakers and the governor can agree on how to balance the budget.

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is set to grow by $1 million, or by as much land as the government can purchase for that sum.

Would you like to patrol the beach at night searching for shipwrecks? Discover fall fungi, colors, and animal adaptations? Hear tales of history, mystery, and murder in a lumbering ghost town? Then come enjoy the flurry of fall leaves, crisp air, and changing colors at free Park Ranger-led programs at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in ...

From Yellowstone's geysers to the 'gators of the Everglades, America's national parks showcase our country's most awe-inspiring features.

Superintendent Dusty Shultz is pleased to introduce 2009a s September Artist-in-Residence at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.

If you love the sun, fun, and beauty of our area beaches, ita TMs time again to show it! Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is celebrating National Public Lands Day on Saturday, September 26, and inviting the public to help clean up the Lakeshorea TMs beaches.

The National Park Service and WCMU Public Broadcasting invites the public to two, free preview screenings of the Ken Burns documentary series, "The National Parks: America's Best Idea", which will premiere on PBS in late September.

In July of this year, my column on recreation and accessibility generated a great deal of mail.

Graph shows the annual visitation at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore since 1987.

Empire Bluff on Michigan's Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore - one of the off limit "viewsheds" listed in Michigans offshore wind power management plan.

Thousands more tourists are visiting a national park in Northern Michigan this year.

A downstate man drowned in Lake Michigan near the mouth of the Platte River. Benzie County Sheriff's officials said the victim, a 21-year-old from Westland, was pronounced dead around 5 p.m. Saturday at Paul Oliver Memorial Hospital in Frankfort.

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Superintendent Dusty Shultz is pleased to announce this yeara s Port Oneida Fair, which will be held August 7 and 8 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. in the Port Oneida Rural Historic District of the Lakeshore.

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Superintendent Dusty Shultz is pleased to announce this yeara s Port Oneida Fair, which will be held August 7 and 8 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. in the Port Oneida Rural Historic District of the Lakeshore.