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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 211. Chapters: Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve, Kingsley Plantation, Steamtown National Historic Site, African Burial Ground National Monument, Alcatraz Island, Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Catskill Park, Carrizo Plain, Papah naumoku kea Marine National Monument, Mount Rushmore, Lake Jackson Mounds Archaeological State Park, Russell Cave National Monument, Blue Ridge Parkway, Fort Sumter, Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site, Poverty Point, Ocmulgee National Monument, Flight 93 National Memorial, Henry W. Coe State Park, Adirondack Park, Hovenweep National Monument, Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, USS Arizona Memorial, Penalara Natural Park, Lava Beds National Monument, Bandelier National Monument, Muir Woods National Monument, City of Rocks National Reserve, Fort Foote, Lawachara National Park, Kickapoo State Recreation Area, Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, Medicine Rocks State Park, Assateague State Park, Crocodile Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Point Reyes National Seashore, Chicago Portage, Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, Willamette National Forest, Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial, United States Navy Memorial, Florida State Parks in Alachua County, William W. Powers State Recreation Area, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, Fort McHenry, Navajo National Monument, Vogel State Park, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Cloudland Canyon State Park, Hocking Hills State Park, Wright Brothers National Memorial, Los Alcornocales Natural Park, Cabo de Gata-Nijar Natural Park, Gettysburg National Military Park, Antietam National Battlefield, Rock Creek Roadless Area, Pinnacles National Monument, Gamble Plantation Historic State Park, Theodore Roosevelt Island, Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site, Gorbea Natural Park, Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park, Homestead National Monument of America, Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, Gateway National Recreation Area, Minidoka National Historic Site, The Barnacle Historic State Park, Gathland State Park, Colorado National Monument. Excerpt: Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore is a unit of the National Park System designated as a U.S. National Lakeshore located in northwest Indiana and managed by the National Park Service. It was authorized by Congress in 1966. The national lakeshore runs for nearly 25 miles (40 km) along the southern shore of Lake Michigan, from Griffith, Indiana, on the west to Michigan City, Indiana on the east. The park contains approximately 15,000 acres (6,100 ha). The National Lakeshore has acquired about 95% of the property with the authorized boundaries. The National Lakeshore holdings are non-contiguous. The National Lakeshore includes the Indiana Dunes State Park (1916), which is owned and managed by the state of Indinana2,182-acre (883 ha)Porter, Indiana. The park is physically divided into 15 disconnected pieces. Along the lakefront, the eastern area is roughly the lakeshore south to U.S. 12 or U.S. 20 between Michigan City, Indiana on the east and the ArcelorMittal Steel Plant on the west. A small extension, south of the steel mill continues west along Salt Creek to Indiana 249. The western area is roughly the shoreline south to U.S. 12 between the Burns Ditch west to Broadway, downtown Gary, Indiana. In addition, there are several outlying areas, including; Pinhook Bog, in LaPorte County to the east. The Heron Rookery in Porter County, the center of the park, and the Calumet Prairie State Nature Preserve and Hobart Prairie Grove, both in Lake County, the western end of the park. Also within the National Lakeshore is the Hoosier Prairie State Nature Preserve, ..
