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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]
Trail Creek is a 7.3-mile-long (11.7 km) north- by northwest-flowing stream [16] whose main stem begins at the confluence of the West Branch Trail Creek and the East Branch Trail Creek in LaPorte County, Indiana, and flows through the Michigan City harbor into Lake Michigan.
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 ...
The Prairie Marsh trail is a 0.25 miles (0.40 km) loop trail that passes through two habitats, a tallgrass prairie and a marsh. [4] This area is considered a virgin prairie as it has never been tilled or grazed. Both the prairie and the marsh are dependent upon fire to maintain their openness and diversity of plant life.
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 ...
The trail that runs through the preserve is about 3 1/2 miles in length and is a loop trail. The trailhead begins in the parking lot for trail No. 10 in Shades State Park.
The trail runs for about 9.1 miles (14.6 km) from Mineral Springs Road in Dune Acres, Indiana, near Cowles Bog, to a point by the county line of Porter County and LaPorte County, very close to the parking lot entrance of a local sand dune landmark, Mount Baldy.
Bloomington’s B-Line Trail has been named among the country’s 10 best recreational trails by USA Today’s 10Best Readers’ Choice Awards. The B-Line is the only Indiana trail to make the list.