Negwegon State Park

Negwegon State Park is an undeveloped Lake Huron park at the southern tip of Thunder Bay, with 4,118 acres of shoreline, lowlands, ridges, pine forest, meadows, and a long sand beach. The area’s human history reaches back far before the park’s creation, with nearby Archaic period fishing grounds dating to about 6000 to 4000 BCE. Land for the park was first bought in 1962 under the name Alpena State Park, then renamed in 1970 for the Ojibwe chieftain Negwegon, who hunted and camped there. It remains intentionally rustic and was designated a Michigan dark-sky preserve in 2016.

Michigan · United States