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Available Amenities and Activities
Description
The Headlands International Dark Sky Park was officially designated as a dark sky park in 2011. As such, it will be of interest to anyone with a passion for astronomy, star gazing, or the northern lights. However, the park is not just for night owls. It also offers five miles of trails through old growth forest and along the Lake Michigan shoreline. It’s location near the tip of the lower peninsula means that many birds get funneled into this location during the spring migration. Numerous raptors, owls, and songbirds will use the forest as a stopover site before moving north across the straits and it will also be one of the first locations that birds enter as they come back south in the fall. It is an ideal location to bird during migration, but will also host many breeding birds during late spring and summer. Snowshoeing and cross country skiing access will also allow you to search the forest for visiting winter finches.
For more information, please visit http://www.midarkskypark.org/.
What’s Nearby
Mackinaw City, Mackinac Island, Colonial Michilimackinac, McGulpin Point Lighthouse, The Headlands Dark Sky Park (also a Sunset Coast Birding Trail Site)
Notable Birds
Black-throated Green Warbler, Black-throated Blue Warbler, Northern Parula, Black-and-white Warbler, Bald Eagle, Osprey, Brown Creeper
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Wooded Drive
Wooded Trail
Wetlands
