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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] The park runs for about 20 miles (32 km) along ...
Hoosier Prairie State Nature Preserve. / 41.5226833°N 87.4575722°W / 41.5226833; -87.4575722. Hoosier Prairie is a unit of Indiana Dunes National Park in Lake County, Indiana. It began in the 1970s as wasteland that conservation organization found of a unique interest. From a core of 304 acres (123 ha), it has grown to 1,547 acres ...
Cowles Bog is considered a wetland complex, rather than a 'true' bog such as Pinhook Bog, also a part of the Indiana Dunes National Park. The main body of the bog is composed of muck created from marsh plants and the woody plants that have encroached into the area. Surrounding the bog proper is an area covered with a thin layer of leaf litter ...
Looking northeast from the top of Mt. Baldy, Indiana Dunes National Park. The dominant feature of the Indiana Dunes is the dunes. The hills and ridges throughout the southern border of Lake Michigan are predominantly sand ridges, created by the movements of the winds and their deposition of the sands. The dunes cover a complex of plant ...
Indiana Dunes State Park will host historical re-enactors as a camp of fur traders on the beach from 9 to 5 p.m. CDT Sept. 7 and from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. CDT Sept. 8. A naturalist will lead a hike to ...
Where is Indiana Dunes State Park located? Located in Chesterton, Indiana, the state park address is 1600 North 25 East. It's about 279 miles from Evansville, making it around a five-hour drive.
Coordinates: 41.648056°N 87.108056°W. Cottontail. Thirty-seven species of mammals have been identified at Indiana Dunes National Park. Four other species are thought to inhabit the park, but have not been documented: the northern long-eared myotis ( Myotis septentrionalis ), the Indiana bat ( Myotis sodalis ), the hoary bat ( Lasiurus ...
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 ...