Indiana Dunes State Park is located 47 miles (75.6 km) east of Chicago, Illinois. The park is bounded by Lake Michigan to the northwest, and is surrounded in the east, south and west by the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, a unit of the National Park Service. The 1,530 acres (619.2 ha) Dunes Nature Preserve makes up the bulk of eastern part of the park, and includes most of the park’s hiking trails and dune landscape. This was one of the first places Richard Lieber considered when establishing the Indiana State Park system. Like all Indiana state parks, there is a fee for entrance. It was designated a National Natural Landmark in 1974.
Preserving the Indiana Dunes has resulted from the efforts of many citizens and politicians.
Read more about Indiana Dunes State Park: Geology, History, Notable Attractions, Facilities and Activities, Dunes Nature Preserve, Blowouts, Gallery
Famous quotes containing the words indiana, state and/or park:
“The Statue of Liberty is meant to be shorthand for a country so unlike its parts that a trip from California to Indiana should require a passport.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)
“An alliance is like a chain. It is not made stronger by adding weak links to it. A great power like the United States gains no advantage and it loses prestige by offering, indeed peddling, its alliances to all and sundry. An alliance should be hard diplomatic currency, valuable and hard to get, and not inflationary paper from the mimeograph machine in the State Department.”
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)
“Is a park any better than a coal mine? What’s a mountain got that a slag pile hasn’t? What would you rather have in your garden—an almond tree or an oil well?”
—Jean Giraudoux (1882–1944)