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Today, the dunes are threatened by pollution and reckless development. Fortunately, it is a protected area, which has drawn more attention and increased resources for its preservation.
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Indiana Dunes, 15 miles of sublime beauty along the southern tip of Lake Michigan, wins U.S. House approval to become our newest national park.
A “place for the millions of pent-up city folk to seek refuge, quiet and renewal.” That was the way US Senator Paul H. Douglas envisioned the dunes on the south shore of Lake Michigan. The ...
Indiana Dunes is the fifth most biologically diverse national park with 1,960 species of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish and vascular plants.
Indiana beaches were packed for Memorial Day weekend and the park rangers at the Indiana Dunes National Park is expecting more of the same Monday.
Indiana Dunes National Park, a 15,000-acre area in northwestern Indiana, along the shore of Lake Michigan, is the country’s newsest and 61st – national park. It’s one of 418 units in the US ...
If you are particularly lucky, you may become one of the chosen few hikers to harmonize with the “singing sands'' of the Indiana Dunes.
The celebration comes in the midst of the popular Indiana Dunes Birding Festival from May 16 to 19 that attracts bird-seeking enthusiasts from across the Midwest each May in the height of bird ...
Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore spokesman Bruce Rowe says scientists have been studying Mount Baldy, a dune near Michigan City that is more than 120 feet tall.
Indiana Dunes National Park in Porter is the state's premiere sunset viewing spot.
It was the longtime home of a couple who were instrumental in holding back industrial sprawl around the dunes before it became a national park.