Keweenaw National Historical Park Visitor Center
The Calumet Visitor Center is open for business. The exhibit offers photos, artifacts and interactive displays.
Keweenaw National Historical Park Visitor Center
Keweenaw National Historical Park Visitor Center
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Mike Reynolds, Regional Director for the National Park Service Midwest Region, speaks about the educational value of the new Keweenaw National Historical Park Visitor Center (Union Building) during the Grand Opening ceremony Oct. 27, 2011, in Calumet, Michigan.
America's Wildest Places - Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge, Illinois
The 43,890-acre Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge, Illinois is one of the largest refuges in the Great Lakes/Big Rivers Region. The Refuge includes hardwood and pine forests, grasslands, wetlands, rolling hills, and rugged terrain.
WILDLIFE AND HABITAT
Forests cover about 56 percent of the Refuge. One Refuge goal has been to manage for productive oak-hickory forest dominated by native species. Examples of wildlife that use Refuge forests are deer, squirrels, raccoons, hawks, owls, and a variety of migratory and resident forest birds
The bobcat, though elusive, is seen somewhat regularly at Crab Orchard. This territorial and largely solitary cat needs a range of about 5 square miles, which means there could be as many as a dozen or more adult bobcats on the Refuge.
Crab Orchard is no exception and is home to six nesting pairs of resident bald eagles and their offspring. A few nesting sites are visible from public roads throughout the Refuge and eagles are spotted daily. The colder and snowier the weather, the better your chance for spotting eagles. Resident eagles will be strengthening their pair bond while working on their nests. Many migrating eagles spend their winters at Crab Orchard, following the flocks of ducks south.
Crab Orchard is also home to a thriving population of wild turkeys. Spring is a great time to see wild turkeys at the refuge.
Summertime is the perfect time to enjoy songbirds on the refuge. Bluebirds are abundant and nest in the boxes provided. If the weather is good, they may raise two of three clutches of chicks over the summer.
TRAVEL & TOURISM
The Refuge offers hiking trails, hunting, fishing, wildlife observation and photography, environmental education and interpretation, boating, swimming, camping, and picnicking.
Getting There:
Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge is located in the southern portion of Illinois, with lands in Williamson, Jackson, and Union counties. The Refuge visitor center is located five miles west of Marion, Illinois, and five miles south of Herrin, Illinois, on State Route 148.
To get to the Refuge Visitor Center from I-57, take exit 54 B onto IL-13W toward Carbondale for 3.6 miles until you reach the IL-148 intersection. At this intersection, turn left onto IL-148 and travel South 1.6 miles until you reach the Refuge Visitor Center. To get to the Refuge Visitor Center from I-24, merge onto I-57 N via exit 44B for 1.3 miles until you reach exit 45, IL-148. Take IL-148 North for 7.7 miles until you reach the Refuge.
Address:
Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge
8588 Route 148
Marion, IL 62959
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Keweenaw's Rich Geoheritage
Upper Michigan's beautiful Keweenaw Peninsula has a rich geoheritage. What is geoheritage? Find out in this Keweenaw National Historical Park produced video.
Presentation looks at the loss of historic structures in U.P. town
The Friends of the Calumet Library invited Keweenaw National Historical Park Ranger Lynette Webber to present on her three year-long project called, What's Missing in Calumet?
Bike Path To Connect Chicago To Southern Michigan
The Marquette Greenway will take bicyclists and pedestrians on a scenic trip around the southern tip of Lake Michigan.
Learning history of the Keweenaw
The Keweenaw National Historical Park is leading a youth initiative to raise students' interest in local history
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Chicago: Navy Pier
Navy Pier is a 3,300-foot-long (1,010 m) pier on the Chicago shoreline of Lake Michigan. The Navy Pier currently encompasses more than fifty acres of parks, gardens, shops, restaurants, family attractions and exhibition facilities and is the top leisure destination in the Midwestern United States (Midwest), drawing nearly nine million visitors annually. It is one of the most visited attractions in the entire Midwest and is Chicago's number one tourist attraction.
Navy Pier opened to the public on July 15, 1916. Originally known as the Municipal Pier, the pier was built by Charles Sumner Frost, a nationally known architect, with a design based on the Plan of Chicago (1909) by Daniel Burnham and Edward H. Bennett. Its original purpose was to serve as a dock for freights, passenger traffic, and indoor and outdoor recreation; events like expositions and pageants were held there.
In the summer of 1918 the pier was also used as a jail for draft dodgers. In 1927, the pier was renamed Navy Pier to honor the naval veterans who served in World War I.
In 1941, during World War II, the pier became a training center for the U.S. Navy; about 10,000 people worked, trained, and lived there. The pier contained a 2,500-seat theater, gym, 12-chair barber shop, tailor, cobbler shops, soda fountain and a vast kitchen and hospital.
In 1946, as the Navy was winding down from its mission, the University of Illinois at Chicago held classes at the pier. Though the maximum capacity was exceeded the school outgrew the pier and the university relocated to Circle Campus.
After the university left, the Navy Pier became underutilized.
In 1959, the St. Lawrence Seaway opened and increased commercial shipping activity at the pier for a short time, though business died down and left for more modern facilities at Lake Calumet.
In 1976 the East End buildings were renovated and for a brief period the pier was alive again, home to summer events like ChicagoFest. But maintenance was not done and the pier went into decline.
In 1989, the City of Chicago had the Urban Land Institute (ULI) reimagine uses for the pier.
In 1995, Navy Pier was redesigned and introduced to the public as a mixed-use venue incorporating retail, dining, entertainment, and cultural spaces.
Starting in 2014, the redevelopment plan called The Centennial Vision was implemented.
Many outdoor art installations are displayed on the pier.
The Old Ferris wheel was retired on September 27, 2015.
A new Ferris wheel for the pier was announced on June 23, 2015. It is 196 feet (60 m) tall, 46 feet (14 m) taller than its predecessor. Rides will be twelve minutes instead of seven and feature three revolutions. The new wheel has brighter lights and opened in May 2016.
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Mick Dedvukaj, District Director for the Detroit District of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, speaks about his own experience as an immigrant during the Naturalization Ceremony in the newly opened Calumet Visitor Center (Union Building) on Oct. 27, 2011. Calumet, Michigan.
Fort Wilkins visitors video
Completion of the historical video display in the visitors center at Fort Wilkins, Copper Harbor, Michigan.
Keweenaw Crossing: Michigan's Elevator Bridge
The documentary film produced by the Michigan Department of Transportation, Keweenaw Crossing: Michigan's Elevator Bridge, details the history and the engineering challenges of building one of the world's heaviest and widest double-deck vertical-lift spans -- the Portage Lake Lift Bridge between Houghton and Hancock.
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As Calumet Village President David Geisler reads the last of the 73 names of the Italian Hall Disaster victims, relatives come forward to take a rose from the wreath honoring them during the Dec. 24, 2013, centennial ceremony at the Italian Hall historic site in Calumet, Michigan. Sue Dana, Calumet Village comptroller, reads Psalm 23. Following his closing comments, Geisler offers residents and visitors Christmas wishes in several of the languages spoken in Calumet 100 years ago.
Trap Hills Ski Tour
Traverse of the Hack Site cliff aka Norwick Ledge in the Trap Hills of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. 9.5 mile tour from car to car 500ft drop and 1 mile run from the top of the ridge to the snowmobile tracks I found past the last scree field. I met up with a section of the North Country Trail that leads directly over the Hack Site Cliff for reference to location on their website.
Quincy Mining Company (Keweenaw National Historic Park) (Hancock, MI)
Visit by twin sisters to the Quincy Mining Company site (former copper mine running 9,200 ft underground) in Hancock, Michigan (part of the Keweenaw National Historic Park), including a trip on the tramway and into the copper mine as well as views of the steam hoist and mine entrance. Bonus: At 0:58 is a distant view of a ship going under the raised Houghton-Hancock lift-bridge from the tramway.
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Booty's Build #6: Unearthing Artifacts from the 150-year old Building's History!!!
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Booty's is a new restaurant, bar and cafe in the Bywater neighborhood of New Orleans, USA. We'll be serving up street food from around the world, tapas-style small plates inspired by our favorite styles of street food. World-infused cocktails and coffee will also be served up every day - opening Fall 2012.
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Michigan Tech student dies during weekend hiking trip in UP
Authorities say a student at Michigan Technological University has died after suffering from symptoms of hypothermia while on a hiking trip in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The Marquette County sheriff's department says 19-year-old Marcus Antilla of Republic was among a group of six students from the school camping in the Rocking Chair Lakes area when he went looking for firewood but didn't immediately return. His friends found him wet and cold.
Indiana Dunes Tourism: Outdoor Adventures – Bicycling (Long Version)