Finger Lake Strip Pit
Maritime Zone, USA
The Maritime Zone Park, spanning 1,128 acres, was formerly the location of a coal strip-mining site. From June 1964 to October 1967, the Peabody Coal Co. extracted over 1.2 million tons of coal from the Boone County area, previously recognized as the Mark Twain Mine. This operation left behind desolate mounds of soil and multiple water-filled pits.
