More than 1.6 million people visited Sleeping Bear Dunes in 2016, but it wasn't the most popular national lakeshore park in the United States, according to the National Park Service. Indiana Dunes ...

By 1925, the efforts of local conservationists led to the creation of the Indiana Dunes State Park in 1925, then the National Lakeshore in 1966. “103 years in the making,” the park’s ...

So far Indiana Dunes Tourism has raised over $500,000, money that went towards phase one of the project which focuses on the five-acre visitor center property, which is owned by Indiana Dunes Tourism.

CHESTERTON | Last weekend patrons of the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, adults and children alike, were excited to meet Smokey the Bear. After a grand entrance, arriving at the fire ...