Lake St. Clair State Parks

This directory lists 3 state parks and recreation areas on or beside the U.S. shore of Lake St. Clair in Michigan, counting the St. Clair River and Detroit River parks that belong to the St. Clair system. Together they cover about 2,563 acres where an area is recorded. Canadian provincial parks are not included. County, city and national parks are not counted here.

Algonac State Park, at 1,550 acres (2.4 sq mi). Next come Belle Isle Park (982 acres) and William G. Milliken State Park and Harbor (31 acres). Areas are as the park's record gives them; some include inland tracts well back from the water.

By the year each park's record gives as its founding: Belle Isle Park (1845), Algonac State Park (1937), William G. Milliken State Park and Harbor (2004). Some parks grew out of older federal or city land, so "established" means the year it became a park, not the year the land was first protected.

Every vehicle entering a Michigan state park needs a Recreation Passport, bought with your license plate registration or at the park. A few parks are run by towns, counties or commissions and set their own rules; each park page says so.