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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...
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    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...
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    Ogden Dunes is a town in Portage Township, Porter County, Indiana, United States. It is located on the shore of Lake Michigan, within Indiana Dunes National...
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  • by Indiana Dunes State Park. Richard Lieber was instrumental in the foundation of the Indiana State Park system. The first state park in Indiana was...
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    extended to that point. The Joseph Bailly Homestead is located in Indiana Dunes National Park on Howe Road, just north of U.S. 20. It is the residence of three...
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    South Bend. Michigan City is noted for both its proximity to Indiana Dunes National Park and for bordering Lake Michigan. It receives a fair amount of...
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    Indiana Dunes National Park (part) Indiana Dunes National Park Heron Rookery Indiana Dunes State Park Moraine Nature Preserve Interstate 80 Indiana Toll...
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    Tractor moved to the town. Just north of the town is Indiana Dunes State Park and Indiana Dunes National Park. Most of the town is flat. However, going south...
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    Lake Michigan. Many residents of Dune Acres and surrounding communities helped preserve parts of the Indiana Dunes. Dune Acres was platted in 1923 as a...
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    the area as a nature preserve that became the Indiana Dunes State Park and later Indiana Dunes National Park. Alice Mabel Gray was born in Chicago on March...
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    a sand dune located in Indiana Dunes National Park. It is on the southern shore of Lake Michigan and is 126 feet tall. It is a wandering dune that moves...
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    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...
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    aviator Octave Chanute. Authorization of the Indiana Dunes National Park, which borders Ports of Indiana-Burns Harbor on three sides, was part of a political...
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    hot and dry year, the Karner blue was also extirpated in the Indiana Dunes National Park. The male and female of this small (wingspan of about one inch)...
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    Drifting and Dreaming was inspired by the sand dunes near Alamosa, Colorado, now Great Sand Dunes National Park. Walking on singing sand Walking on singing...
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    Marquette Park in Gary, Indiana (1920), Indiana Dunes State Park (1926) and Indiana Dunes National Park, (1966, designated as a national park in 2019)...
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    Marquette Park, originally called Lake Front Park, is a municipal park completely surrounded by Indiana Dunes National Park. Its primary features include...
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    Royale National Park in Lake Superior and Indiana Dunes National Park bordering Lake Michigan. Cuyahoga Valley also differs from the other national parks in...
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    National Archives. "Indiana Dunes National Park". National Park Service. Retrieved February 16, 2019. "Isle Royale National Park". National Park Service. Retrieved...
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  • The Indiana Dunes are natural sand dunes occurring at the southern end of Lake Michigan in the American State of Indiana. They are known for their ecological...
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  • Indiana Dunes National Park is a National Park Service unit on the shore of Lake Michigan in Indiana, United States. A BioBlitz took place there on May...
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  • Woods, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore Research Program, Report 90-01; National Park Service, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore; Porter Indiana; 1990 Environmental...
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    Located along the Lake Michigan shoreline and adjacent to the Indiana Dunes National Park, the town was initially developed as a planned resort community...
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    Archived February 7, 2010, at the Wayback Machine Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore Indiana Dunes State Park Dunes Nature Preserve 41°38′53″N 87°06′29″W / 41...
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    The Indiana Dunes is an area of land beside Lake Michigan, in the State of Indiana, United States. It includes Indiana Dunes National Park and Indiana Dunes...
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    of downtown Chicago. The city is the western gateway to the Indiana Dunes National Park, and is within the Chicago metropolitan area. Gary was named...
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    bordered on the north by Lake Michigan and contains a portion of the Indiana Dunes. It includes Marktown, Clayton Mark's planned worker community in East...
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    Portage and Porter), while US 12 passes through Indiana Dunes National Park and retains the name "Dunes Highway". After splitting from US 20, US 12 becomes...
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    major attraction. Indiana Dunes National Park, which stretches from Gary to Michigan City, is a well-preserved stretch of sand dunes, beaches, grasslands...
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    seas. Dunes occur in different shapes and sizes, but most kinds of dunes are longer on the stoss (upflow) side, where the sand is pushed up the dune, and...
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