Lake Superior State Parks

This directory lists 16 state parks and recreation areas on or beside the U.S. shore of Lake Superior in Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Together they cover about 128,391 acres where an area is recorded. Canadian provincial parks are not included. County, city and national parks are not counted here.

Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park, at 59,020 acres (92 sq mi). Next come Tahquamenon Falls State Park (46,179 acres) and Tettegouche State Park (9,346 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: Baraga State Park (1922), Brimley State Park (1922), Fort Wilkins Historic State Park (1923). 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. Wisconsin state parks and forests require a vehicle admission sticker, annual or daily. Minnesota state parks require a vehicle permit, annual or one-day. A few parks are run by towns, counties or commissions and set their own rules; each park page says so.