In 2015, on one of our day-trips from Chicago, Lizzie and I visited Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore and Indiana Dunes State Park.
We started off our day by hiking the Dune Succession Trail, which is part of the West Beach Trail System.
The trail is popular and well photographed due to the view of the dunes and Lake Michigan from the top of the 250 stairs. Since we are both crazy, instead of hiking this trail as a loop where you only have to do the stairs once – we went down the stairs, along the beach a bit, and then back up the 250 stairs.
January turned out to be a nice time to do this hike as there were maybe 10 other people in the West Beach area. If hiked as a loop, the Dune Succession Trail is a mile long. There are two other loop trails at West Beach for a combined total of 3.5 miles of hiking trails.
It was extremely cool seeing all the ice piled up on the beach.
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Reminds me of the dunes at The Pinery Provincial Park in on Georgian Bay in Ontario. The dunes are gorgeous. Always interesting to photograph them.
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I will have to check that park out! Dunes are very interesting.
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Love the sand dunes but that ice picture is so cool! I visited Indiana Dunes SP and was fascinated with how big the dunes were! Great post!
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I had never seen either, dunes that big or ice on a lake like that. It was such a neat experience! I’m hooked on visiting places during the non-popular times just for that reason – the landscape is totally different!
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