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Indiana Dunes National Park is a national park of the United States located in northwestern Indiana managed by the National Park Service. It was authorized by Congress in 1966 as the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore and was redesignated as the nation's 61st national park on February 15, 2019. [ 2 ]
Indiana Dunes' West Beach area lies immediately to the east of Miller Beach. The entire shoreline of Miller is public beachfront. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Miller's large lakefront park, Marquette Park , is a national landmark containing architecturally significant and historic structures, two bronze sculptures and the location of early experiments in ...
Indiana Dunes State Park is an Indiana State Park located in Porter County, Indiana, United States, 47 miles (75.6 km) east of Chicago.The park is bounded by Lake Michigan to the northwest and is surrounded by as well as within the authorized boundaries of Indiana Dunes National Park, a unit of the National Park Service; the NPS owns the water from the ordinary high water mark to 300 feet (91 ...
Travelers may not think of dunes when they think of Indiana. “Cornfields they would believe,” joked Bruce Rowe, a ranger at Indiana Dunes National Park.. But sure enough, there are dunes right ...
Map of the public trails at Miller Woods. Miller Woods is a western unit of Indiana Dunes National Park in the lakefront community of Miller Beach, Indiana.Miller Woods is home to the federally endangered Karner Blue butterfly and the federally threatened Pitcher's thistle. [1]
Mount Baldy is accessible from U.S. Route 12 (also known as Dunes Highway) between the town of Pines and the western border of Michigan City, Indiana. It is a tourist attraction locally and regionally, drawing weekend and summer visitors from Chicago. Prior to the dune's closure, one could ascend its 302 steps and see Chicago's skyline.
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The route reenters Indiana Dunes National Park at a traffic light for the eastern entrance of Mittal Steel Company. After the traffic light the road passes south of Dune Acres and enters Indiana Dunes State Park. The road has an intersection with SR 49, with access to the lake front. After the intersection, the road passes under the access road ...