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Sacred Sands: The Struggle for Community in the Indiana Dunes. ISBN 0-8195-6129-0. Greenberg, Joel R. (2002). A natural history of the Chicago Region. ISBN 0-226-30648-8. Whitaker, John O. (1999). "Mammals of the Grand Calumet River region". Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science. 108/109: 122– 144. Archived from the original on 2012 ...
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 ...
Richard Lieber was instrumental in the foundation of the Indiana State Park system. The first state park in Indiana was McCormick's Creek State Park, in Owen County in 1916, followed in the same year by Turkey Run State Park in Parke County. The number of state parks rose steadily in the 1920s, mostly by donations of land from local authorities ...
Indiana Beach is an amusement park located on Lake Shafer in Monticello, Indiana.The resort was developed by the Spackman family, who owned it from 1926 to 2008. The park was then sold to Morgan RV LLC, Apex Parks Group, LLC, and now is owned and operated by IB Parks & Entertainment.
Indiana Dunes National Park, which includes large areas in and around Miller Beach, is a place of extremely high biodiversity. [81] The neighborhood's Miller Woods area alone is home to 287 species of plants and animals, [ 39 ] including the federally endangered Karner Blue butterfly and the federally threatened Pitcher's thistle .
High surf pushes up the beach at Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area on Thursday, Dec. 28, 2023. At about 9:45 a.m., emergency responders asked 200 people in the Oceano Dunes State ...
A new study showed the amount of dust emitted at the state park may now on average be lower than before people started driving on the dunes. State Parks has been trying to reduce Oceano Dunes dust ...
The Indiana Dunes, including the Tremont area, played a role in the creation of The Nature Conservancy [6] [7] and inspired conservation efforts. [8] [9] [10] [11]Part of the former village of Tremont remains built upon, as the South Shore Line's current NICTD headquarters building and station is located adjacent to the former village center.