• 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 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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    Many residents of Ogden Dunes helped preserve parts of the Indiana Dunes. The town is the site of the Portage / Ogden Dunes station, which is served...
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    the duneland of the south shore of Lake Michigan. Many residents of Dune Acres and surrounding communities helped preserve parts of the Indiana Dunes...
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    The county is part of Northwest Indiana, as well as the Chicago metropolitan area. Porter County is the site of much of the Indiana Dunes, an area of...
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    Schoon, Kenneth J. (June 18, 2013). Dreams of Duneland: A Pictorial History of the Indiana Dunes Region. Indiana University Press. p. 219. ISBN 0-253-00798-4...
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    Chesterton, Indiana. Gray lived in primitive conditions among the sand dunes of northern Indiana and became interested in the history, ecology, and the need...
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    Schoon, Kenneth J. (June 18, 2013). Dreams of Duneland: A Pictorial History of the Indiana Dunes Region. Indiana University Press. p. 219. ISBN 0-253-00798-4...
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    Singing sand (redirect from Song of dunes)
    sand or singing dune, is sand that produces sound. The sound emission may be caused by wind passing over dunes or by walking on the sand. Certain conditions...
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  • Lee Botts (category Indiana Dunes National Park)
    now the Dunes Learning Center. Located within the Indiana Dunes National Park at the former Camp Goodfellow, which was a summer camp for children of U.S...
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    in the U.S. state of Indiana. The population was 5,210 as of the 2020 census. Porter is in the Indiana Dunes ecosystem, which played a role in the creation...
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    constructed on top of what was once the Central Dunes region of the Indiana Dunes and site of some of the hanggliding experiments carried out by a crew...
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    the town is Indiana Dunes State Park and Indiana Dunes National Park. Most of the town is flat. However, going south into the city on the Route 49 overpass...
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  • County Chain O' Lakes Charlestown Clifty Falls Falls of the Ohio Fort Harrison Harmonie Indiana Dunes Lincoln McCormick's Creek Mounds O'Bannon Woods Ouabache...
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    metropolitan area. The population was 1,156 at the 2010 census. Burns Harbor is located adjacent to the Indiana Dunes, an area that conservationists have fought...
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    Portage/Ogden Dunes is a station in Porter County, Indiana serving the municipalities of Portage, Indiana and Ogden Dunes, Indiana. It is used by South...
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    a portion of the Indiana Dunes. It includes Marktown, Clayton Mark's planned worker community in East Chicago. Originally inhabited by the Potawatomi...
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    sand ridges and dunes, some reaching nearly 200 feet in height; most of them are at Indiana Dunes National Park. These are along the Lake Michigan shoreline...
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    Indiana, United States. Dunes Creek passes through the coastal sand dunes to empty into Lake Michigan. Petit Fort was established at the mouth of Dunes...
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    Enclave Miller Beach Ogden Dunes Dune Acres, Indiana "Town Officials". Town of Beverly Shores, Indiana. Archived from the original on May 7, 2016. Retrieved...
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  • support for creating a port on the Lakeshore which would have removed the large central dunes of the Indiana Dunes. The battle between Douglas and Halleck...
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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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    national lakeshore, renamed Indiana Dunes National Park in 2019 in a bid to increase visibility and tourism to the area despite the Park Service's naming conventions...
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    between the industrial areas. The Indiana Dunes National Park and the Indiana Dunes State Park are two natural landmarks of the area. Northwest Indiana is...
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    southeast of downtown Chicago. The city is the western gateway to the Indiana Dunes National Park, and is within the Chicago metropolitan area. Gary...
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    Henry Chandler Cowles (category Presidents of the American Association of Geographers)
    at the University of Chicago, he studied ecological succession in the Indiana Dunes of Northwest Indiana. This led to efforts to preserve the Indiana Dunes...
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    A dune is a landform composed of wind- or water-driven sand. It typically takes the form of a mound, ridge, or hill. An area with dunes is called a dune...
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  • most celebrated ghost legends in Indiana is that of Diana of the Dunes. Near Chesterton, Indiana, in the Indiana Dunes, there is a legend that fishermen...
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    surrounded by Indiana Dunes National Park. Its primary features include 1.4 miles (2.2 km) of Lake Michigan beaches, inland ponds, sand dunes, wetlands,...
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