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The Hoosier Slide, pictured in a 1907 postcard. The Hoosier Slide was a large sand dune on the shore of Lake Michigan near Michigan City, Indiana.The 200-foot (61 m) dune was a popular tourist destination in the late 19th century, attracting visitors for the view from the top and to slide down the dune's face.
It is on the southern shore of Lake Michigan and is 126 feet tall. It is a wandering dune that moves or shifts every year, and is called a "living dune." A view of Lake Michigan from Mount Baldy. 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 ...
Silver Lake State Park is a 2,936-acre (1,188 ha) public recreation area bordering Lake Michigan and Silver Lake, four miles (6.4 km) west of Mears in Oceana County, Michigan. The state park is composed of mature forest land and over 2,000 acres (810 ha) of sand dunes .
Michigan City is a city in LaPorte County, Indiana, United States.It had a population of 32,075 at the 2020 census.Located along Lake Michigan in the Michiana region, the city is about 45 miles (72 km) east of Chicago and is 40 miles (64 km) west of South Bend.
At 123 feet (37 m) tall, it is one of the tallest sand dunes on the southern shore of Lake Michigan. It is a wandering dune that moves an average of 4 feet (1.2 m) every year, and so is called a "living dune". 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 ...
A Signature of Time and Eternity: The Administrative History of Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, Indiana. Omaha, Nebraska: National Park Service. City of Gary (2008). City of Gary, Indiana Comprehensive Plan (PDF). Engel, Ronald (1986). Sacred Sands: The Struggle for Community in the Indiana Dunes. ISBN 0-8195-6129-0. Federal Writers' Project ...
Silver Lake from the air. There were 207 households, out of which 35.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 59.9% were married couples living together, 9.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 24.6% were non-families. 18.8% of all households were made up of individuals, and 8.2% had someone living alone who was ...
The central dunes, which were a large area of high and diverse dunes was removed to make way for the Bethlehem Burns Harbor Steel Plant [3] The most accessible dunes are at the West Beach facility of the national park (Dunes Succession Trail); the Tremont’s Trail in Indiana Dunes State Park, and at Mt. Baldy, located in the east end of the ...