Muskallonge Lake State Park facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Muskallonge Lake State Park
IUCN Category III (Natural Monument)
Muskallonge Lake State Park, July 2007
Muskallonge Lake State Park Location in Michigan
Location	Upper Peninsula, Luce County, Michigan , United States
Nearest city	Grand Marais, Michigan
Area	217 acres (88 ha)
Elevation	643 feet (196 m)
Designation	Michigan state park
Established	1956
Administrator	Michigan Department of Natural Resources
Website	Muskallonge State Park

Muskallonge Lake State Park is a public recreation area on Lake Superior sixteen miles (26 km) east of Grand Marais in Luce County, Michigan. The state park covers 217 acres (88 ha) between the shores of Lake Superior and Muskallonge Lake where Native American's once had an encampment and where a station of the United States Life-Saving Service once stood.

History

The park occupies land just west of Deer Park, a 19th-century mill town that all but disappeared once the forests on which its mill depended were gone. The state park is also the site of former Station Muskallong Lake (Coast Guard Station #295; later called Station Deer Park), one of five such stations along the coast of Lake Superior between Munising and Whitefish Point in the Upper Peninsula. It was part of U.S. Life-Saving Service District 10 (later part of District 11). The other four stations along Lake Superior's "Shipwreck Coast" were Grand Marais, Two Heart, Crisp Point Light, and Vermilion Point.

Deer Park Life-Saving Station was in service from 1876 to 1909. The park was transferred from the Forestry Division to Parks and Recreation Division in 1957.

Activities and amenities

The park offers swimming and fishing and includes a 159-site campground, boat launch, picnic area, playground, and trails for hiking and snow-mobiling.

Images for kids

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  Entrance along Deer Park Road (H-58)
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  State park campground
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  Lake Superior beachfront
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  Muskallonge Lake shoreline