Wells State Park (Michigan)

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location = Michigan, USA
nearest_city = Cedar River, Michigan
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area = convert|678|acre|km2
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governing_body = Michigan Department of Natural Resources

Wells State Park (also known as J.W. Wells State Park) is a state park in the U.S. state of Michigan. The convert|678|acre|km2|sing=on park is located in Menominee County on the shore of the Bay of Green Bay, just south of Cedar River. It is on M-35, roughly midway between Menominee and Escanaba.

The park features a three-mile (5 km) shoreline with a sandy beach for swimming. There is a modern campground with 150 sites and five rustic cabins available for rent from mid-March to mid-December. The modern Bay Stone Lodge sleeps twelve and includes an equipped kitchen, two full bathrooms, screened porch and a stone fireplace in the great room.

Hiking is available on the Wells-Cedar River Trail, which runs along the shore of the Green Bay and side trails looping through other parts of the park.

The park was established in 1925 through a donation by the children of John Walter Wells, a pioneer lumberman in the area and the mayor of Menominee for three terms beginning in 1893. Many of the park's buildings, landscaping and water and sewage systems were built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s and 1940s.

External links

* [http://www.michigandnr.com/parksandtrails/ParksandTrailsInfo.aspx?id=432 Wells State Park entry at Michigan DNR]
* [http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,1607,7-153-10365_24196-146545--,00.html Bay Stone Lodge]