At the eastern end of the Park towards Michigan City, you can visit Mount Baldy, a 126 ft. Meanwhile, the Glenwood Dunes Trail System, located more inland at Indiana Dunes National Park, features interconnected loops that pass through rolling wooded dunes. I didn’t visit the park but understand that the Devil’s Slide is particularly fun in the winter when it transforms into a natural tubing and sledding hill for visitors. There are beaches, hiking trails, a nature center, camping, a nature preserve. It has more than three miles of beaches and 2,182 acres. This is a separate park with different regulations and fees. The Indiana Dunes State Park is surrounded by the National Park. Created by strong winds from Lake Michigan, it is wonderful that the dunes were saved in the past from the creeping industrialization from nearby Gary. Other popular activities include camping, sailing, swimming, fishing, biking, horseback riding, boating, and bird watching. The dunes reach nearly 200 feet above Lake Michigan and there are more than 50 miles of hiking trails that lead through diverse plants and wildlife. Together, the preserves include beaches, prairies and oak savannas, marshes or wetlands, forests, rivers, and bogs. With 15,000 acres between Gary, IN and Michigan, City, IN, it surrounds the Indiana Dunes State Park. Indiana Dunes National Park: As one of our newest National Parks, this is a long, 15 miles stretch of Lake Michigan shore. I recently went on a beautiful September day, and felt that I was totally away from the city, though I could actually see the skyline in the distance from several points along the beach! It is under an hour drive from Chicago and is an easy day trip. I have been wanting to visit the Indiana Dunes National Park since it was upgraded to national park status in 2019.
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