Kelleys Island State Park is a public recreation area occupying one-quarter of

Kelleys Island Kelleys Island is both a village in Erie County, Ohio, and the island which it fully occupies in Lake Erie. The British originally called it Sandusky Island. Later the United States took it over and officially designated it as Island Number 6 ...

, an

island An island (or isle) is an isolated piece of habitat that is surrounded by a dramatically different habitat, such as water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, skerries, cays or keys. An island ...

Lake Erie Lake Erie ( "eerie") is the fourth largest lake by surface area of the five Great Lakes in North America and the eleventh-largest globally. It is the southernmost, shallowest, and smallest by volume of the Great Lakes and therefore also h ...

located northeast of

Port Clinton, Ohio Port Clinton is a city in and the county seat of Ottawa County, located at the mouth of the Portage River on Lake Erie, about 44 miles east of Toledo. The population was 6,056 at the 2010 census. The city has been nicknamed the "Walleye Capit ...

, in the United States. The state park's include of hiking trails, ruins of

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kilns and quarrying operations, sand beach, and campground. The park was established in 1956. The park cooperates with other agencies to manage the adjoining Glacial Grooves State Memorial, a set of rare

glacial groove Glacial striations or striae are scratches or gouges cut into bedrock by glacial abrasion. These scratches and gouges were first recognized as the result of a moving glacier in the late 18th century when Swiss alpinists first associated them w ...

s, North Shore Alvar State Natural Area, a rare

alvar An alvar is a biological environment based on a limestone plain with thin or no soil and, as a result, sparse grassland vegetation. Often flooded in the spring, and affected by drought in midsummer, alvars support a distinctive group of prair ...

habitat, and the North Pond State Nature Preserve, a lake

embayment A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean, a lake, or another bay. A large bay is usually called a gulf, sea, sound, or bight. A cove is a small, circular bay with a na ...

usually separated from the lake by a sand bar.

Gallery

File:Glacial grooves.jpg, The famous

glacial grooves Glacial striations or striae are scratches or gouges cut into bedrock by glacial abrasion. These scratches and gouges were first recognized as the result of a moving glacier in the late 18th century when Swiss alpinists first associated them w ...

of Kelleys Island. File:Alvar1.jpg, A close up of alvar in the state park. File:Lakeside Daisies up close.jpg, Lakeside daises in the state park. File:Kelleys Island State Park Beach.jpg, The park's public beach. File:Kelleys Island State Park cliff.jpg, Former quarries cause dramatic cliffs like these.

References

External links

Kelleys Island State Park
Ohio Department of Natural Resources
Kelleys Island State Park Map
Ohio Department of Natural Resources {{authority control State parks of Ohio Protected areas of Erie County, Ohio Protected areas established in 1956 1956 establishments in Ohio Kelleys Island, Ohio