Sleeping Bear Dunes to celebrate MLK Day with free entry
Updated Jan 12, 2021;
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EMPIRE, MICH. Entrance to Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore will be free for all visitors this coming Monday, January 18, in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
The park will be joining 422 other destinations within the National Park Service in waiving entrance fees on that date as part of a nationwide initiative to encourage people to visit national parks across the country.
The holiday is the first of six National Park Service fee-free dates in 2021. The other fee-free dates include April 17 (the first day of National Park Week), August 4 (one-year anniversary of the Great American Outdoors Act), August 25 (the National Park Service’s birthday), September 25 (National Public Lands Day), and November 11 (Veterans Day).
Sleeping Bear Dunes, Isle Royale to waive entrance fees on six dates in 2021
Updated Dec 30, 2020;
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Entrance to Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore and Isle Royale National Park will be free for all visitors on six dates in 2021, thanks to the National Park Service’s annual fee-free days program.
Each year, the park service announces a handful of dates when entrance fees will be waived at all National Park Service sites. In Michigan, those dates are most relevant for visitors to Sleeping Bear Dunes and Isle Royale, the only two NPS sites in the state that charge an entrance fee.
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(WWJ/AP) A mystery of yesteryear is unfolding in northern Michigan.
Officials are talking with Native American groups to help determine what to do with prehistoric human remains discovered at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Park along Lake Michigan.
Empire is about 30 miles west of Traverse City.
The park’s superintendent told the Associated Press a visitor found the remains in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore three years ago, took them out of the park and returned them a year later.
A medical examiner and researchers at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo analyzed the bones and identified them as most likely tied to prehistoric Native American populations.