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Valparaiso Popcorn Fest

Calling all popcorn lovers! Mark your calendars, and be sure to pop on over to Valparaiso for the annual Popcorn Festival held each September. Recently celebrating its 45th year, the festival was originally started as a way to celebrate local popcorn legend Orville Redenbacher. While sponsors have…

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A Train Lover's Guide to the Indiana Dunes Area

It might be a little unexpected, but train enthusiasts, aka railfans, love visiting the Indiana Dunes area. Indiana is, after all, the crossroads of America. What makes our area so great for railroad-themed excursions? Trains to Chicago With Chicago only an hour away, major railway lines cross…

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Side by Side—A History of Sand and Steel

The Indiana Dunes is a 2,000-acre state park surrounded by an even larger national park, encompassing 15,000 acres of beaches, prairies, wetlands, savannas, and forests. The dunes, which are essentially massive mounds of sand reaching nearly 200 feet high, were formed when glaciers passed through…

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