Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore will be celebrating the 100th birthday of the National Park Service (NPS) with the first ever Astronomy Day. The event will take place on Saturday, July 23, 2016, from 1:00-11:00 p.m., and will include family activities, special presentations from area astronomers, and solar and night sky viewing with telescopes.
Candidates from numerous countries will become new citizens during a ceremony at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore on Thursday, July 21, 2016. This year, 100 ceremonies will be held in parks nationwide to commemorate the National Park Service’s Centennial and invite a new generation of Americans to national parks. The National Park Service and the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services have an official partnership that encourages both agencies to co-host naturalization ceremonies in these special places set aside for public enjoyment and historical commemoration.
Preserve Historic Sleeping Bear has several preservation projects and workshops open to volunteers this summer. Volunteers should wear closed-toe shoes, bring basic tools, a bag lunch, water, and dress for the weather. To RSVP please call 231-334-6103 or 334-PARK.
It looks like your standard-issue National Park sign, a chocolate brown square with white type affixed to a wooden post. Upon closer inspection one discovers that this isn’t your Uncle Sam’s signage. This summer, nature poems masquerading as official park signs can be found in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore and the four other Great Lakes national parks at trails, vistas and beaches as part of the National Park Service centennial celebration.
There you are, all ready to take the kids to the beach, when it begins to rain. What to do? The Sleeping Bear National Lakeshore offers a variety of indoor and outdoor spots to visit on any summer day, whether or not it’s a good beach day.
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is looking for educators who want to partner with the park. Educators will assist the National Lakeshore with developing educational programs that can be used both in the classroom and for field trips. Interested educators can email the National Lakeshore’s new education technician, Joshua Schultz, at joshua_schultz@nps.gov.
The Glen Arbor Art Association is partnering with the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore to offer three additional summer Manitou Music Festival concerts this summer, to be held at the D.H. Day Campground amphitheater. The expanded lineup is part of the National Park Service’s 100th birthday celebration in 2016. The public, park rangers and campers are invited to join in the celebration with a concert in the park this summer and “find your park” through music.
From staff reports Friends of Sleeping Bear Dunes may be best known for working together with the National Park to maintain the popular Sleeping Bear Heritage Trail. Later this summer the trail will open its fourth leg — a 3.8-mile stretch from the Port Oneida Rural Historic District to Bohemian Road on Good Harbor Bay. […]
The good news: the popular Sleeping Bear Heritage Trail has expanded and opened its fourth leg, which will eventually run 3.8 miles east from Port Oneida to Bohemian Road and Good Harbor Bay, bringing the trail total to 17 miles. The bad news: the trail addition is only partly complete. The construction of a boardwalk over the southern shore of Narada Lake (about halfway between Port Oneida and Bohemian) is far behind schedule, and work won’t resume on the bridge until July 5.
Come celebrate International Picnic Day at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore with a Picnic in the Park. Make it simple or extravagant; bring a bike, or go on a hike. Invite friends and family, and earn a Junior Ranger badge or patch.