Headlands Beach, Ohio. Photo source: ©© EDrost88
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Once there were 170 miles of unspoiled Lake Erie beaches with dunes and beach-loving vegetation on Ohio’s North Coast. Few remain today.
That’s what makes Headlands Dunes State Nature Preserve in Lake County so special. It is the best and one of the last surviving lakefront beach plant communities with its hummocks and its sand-loving vegetation.
Lake Erie was part of the Atlantic Ocean 12,000 years ago when the glaciers were retreating. Saltwater disappeared 2,000 years later, but the Atlantic coastal plants remained in the Lake Erie dunes…
