US-MI-Veronica+Valley+Park


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Leelanau County
=Veronica Valley Park= South Lake Leelanau Drive Lake Leelanau, MI 49653 [|Veronica Valley Park web site] [|Veronica Valley Park map]

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Veronica Valley Park
Coordinates: 44.9198654, -85.6962332 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

About Veronica Valley Park
The 92 acre Veronica Valley Park is owned by Leelanau County. The property was formerly a nine hole golf course that has not been in use since 2008. The site is characterized by gently rolling hills, open space, wetlands, and forested wetlands that include dense stands of white cedar. The property has two bridges and seven ponds. Mebert Creek, a designated trout stream, also winds approximately 2,268 feet through the site.

Veronica Valley offers some exceptional viewing trails and easy access to the above habitats. A new proposed trail system will reach most of the areas of the park with a high percentage of the trails maintained by a single width of a county mower. Wood-chipped paths and elevated boardwalks are planned leading to viewing platforms in and adjacent to the wetland areas.

Once a golf course, now a county park, Veronica Valley is a good place to look for shrub-scrub species such as Yellow Warbler, Gray Catbird, Eastern Kingbird, and Brown Thrasher, among others. The County Parks Department has plans for improvement of this property; these improvements should lead to increases in both the numbers of species and the numbers of individuals over time. From [|Sleeping Bear Birding Trail: Veronica Valley Park web site]

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