Which Indiana Dunes Beach Should You Visit?
Thinking about visiting the Indiana Dunes and wondering which beach you should visit? This guide will help you decide!
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Bikes, brews, best stays, places to play, and so much more. Define your Dunes getaway for yourself with the help of our local stories.
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Beaches
Wildlife
The Upside-Down Bird With the Strange Song
Bobolinks have color unlike most birds and have a strange, metallic sounding song.
Things to Do
Mask-Uerade Video Contest
Take a video of yourself or someone you know wearing a mask at any park, restaurant, hotel, shop, or attraction in Porter County and be entered to…
Visitor Center
Our Hoosier Hospitality Promise
The Indiana Dunes Visitor Center has taken the Hoosier Hospitality Promise to help keep our staff and visitors safe and healthy.
Attractions & Recreation
49er Drive-In Theatre: Family Fun With a 1950s Feel
The 49er Drive-In Theatre is Northwest Indiana’s only drive-in theater. Enjoy all the aspects of a 1950s drive-in merged with modern-day convenience.
Eat & Drink
The Port Drive-In: A Chesterton Icon
As Porter County’s only drive-in restaurant, The Port Drive-In is a blast from the past and is one of the Indiana Dunes area’s must-sees & dos.
Wildlife
Sedges Are a Buffet for Bison in the Indiana Dunes
Kankakee Sands bison spend much of their grazing time consuming sedges; allowing a young bison calf born at just 40 pounds to mature to a 1600-pound…
Places to Stay
Valparaiso Inn Bed & Breakfast
Each of Valparaiso Inn's suites is furnished with period antiques and private bathrooms with features like clawfoot soaking tubs or two-person…
Wildlife
Dung Beetles and Bison!
We often talk about the types of plants that our Kankakee Sands bison are eating, and how that will affect the prairies. What we rarely talk about is…
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Top Dunes Hiking Trails
Indiana Dunes is a wildlife-rich landscape of dunes, barrens, prairies, forests, and wetlands, packed with great sites to explore.
Places to Stay
Spring House Inn: A Woodsy Staycation Retreat
You’re sure to enjoy the peace of being tucked into your own private corner in nature at Spring House Inn.
3 Interesting Things
Blastcamp Paintball & Airsoft
Built on a former army base with 28 acres of bunkers, trenches, buildings and radar towers, this is hands-down the best paintball range in the…
Doing the Dunes - Family Hikes in Indiana Dunes
By Heather Tallman
Every summer my family of four travels the Midwest in search of adventure. Last summer, while on our traditional summer weeklong trip to the Indiana Dunes area, I stumbled upon something new. Uncharted territory. A new adventure.