BGuthrie Photos: IN -- Indiana Dunes Natl Lakeshore

IN -- Indiana Dunes Natl Lakeshore:

Bruce Guthrie Photos Home Page: [Click here] to go to Bruce Guthrie Photos home page.

Recognize anyone? If you recognize specific folks (or other stuff) and I haven't labeled them, please identify them for the world. Click the little pencil icon

underneath the file name (just above the picture). Spammers need not apply.

Copyrights: All pictures were taken by amateur photographer Bruce Guthrie (me!) who retains copyright on them. Free for non-commercial use with attribution. See the [Creative Commons] definition of what this means. "Photos (c) Bruce Guthrie" is fine for attribution. (Commercial use folks including AI scrapers can of course contact me.) Feel free to use in publications and pages with attribution but you don't have permission to sell the photos themselves. A free copy of any printed publication using any photographs is requested. Descriptive text, if any, is from a mixture of sources, quite frequently from signs at the location or from official web sites; copyrights, if any, are retained by their original owners.

Accessing as Spider: The system has identified your IP as being a spider.
IP Address: 3.143.218.146 -- Domain: Amazon Technologies
I love well-behaved spiders! They are, in fact, how most people find my site. Unfortunately, my network has a limited bandwidth and pictures take up bandwidth. Spiders ask for lots and lots of pages and chew up lots and lots of bandwidth which slows things down considerably for regular folk. To counter this, you'll see all the text on the page but the images are being suppressed. Also, some system options like merges are being blocked for you.
Note: Permission is NOT granted for spiders, robots, etc to use the site for AI-generation purposes. I'm sure you're thrilled by your ability to make revenue from my work but there's nothing in that for my human users or for me.
If you are in fact human, please email me at guthrie.bruce@gmail.com and I can check if your designation was made in error. Given your number of hits, that's unlikely but what the hell.

Help? The Medium (Email) links are for screen viewing and emailing. You'll want bigger sizes for printing. [Click here for additional help]

Share: Facebook Twitter Digg
[1] DUNES_010705_01.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[2] DUNES_010705_02.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[3] DUNES_010705_03.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)
[4] DUNES_010705_04.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[5] DUNES_010705_05.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[6] DUNES_010705_06.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)
[7] DUNES_010705_07.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[8] DUNES_010705_08.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[9] DUNES_010705_09.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)
[10] DUNES_010705_10.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[11] DUNES_010705_13.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[12] DUNES_010705_15.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)
[13] DUNES_010705_17.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[14] DUNES_010705_18.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[15] DUNES_010705_19.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)
[16] DUNES_010705_20.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[17] DUNES_010705_21.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[18] DUNES_010705_23.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)
[19] DUNES_010705_25.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[20] DUNES_010705_27.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[21] DUNES_010705_29.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)
[22] DUNES_010705_30.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[23] DUNES_010705_31.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[24] DUNES_010705_32.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)
[25] DUNES_010705_33.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[26] DUNES_010705_35.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[27] DUNES_010705_37.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)
[28] DUNES_010705_39.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[29] DUNES_010705_41.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[30] DUNES_010705_42.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)
[31] DUNES_010705_44.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[32] DUNES_010705_46.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[33] DUNES_010705_48.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)
[34] DUNES_010705_49.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[35] DUNES_010705_50.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[36] DUNES_010705_51.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)
[37] DUNES_010705_52.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[38] DUNES_010705_53.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[39] DUNES_010705_54.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)
[40] DUNES_010705_55.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[41] DUNES_010705_58.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[42] DUNES_010705_60.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)
[43] DUNES_010705_62.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[44] DUNES_010705_64.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[45] DUNES_010705_66.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)
[46] DUNES_010705_68.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[47] DUNES_010705_70.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[48] DUNES_010705_72.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)
[49] DUNES_010705_74.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[50] DUNES_010705_76.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[51] DUNES_010705_78.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)
[52] DUNES_010705_80.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[53] DUNES_010705_82.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[54] DUNES_010705_83.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)

AAA "Gem": AAA considers this location to be a "must see" point of interest. To see pictures of other areas that AAA considers to be Gems, click here.
Wikipedia Description: Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore is a U.S. national lakeshore located in northwest Indiana that was authorized by Congress in 1966. The national lakeshore runs for nearly 25 miles (40 km) along the southern shore of Lake Michigan, from Gary, Indiana on the west to Michigan City, Indiana on the east. The park contains approximately 15,000 acres (61 km�). The National Lakeshore has development rights over the area within its boundaries, but has not purchased the full extent of the property. Its holdings are non-contiguous and do not include the Indiana Dunes State Park (1916), a separate, 2,182 acre (9 km�) parcel of protected Dunes land on the lakefront near Chesterton, Indiana.

Lakeshore activities:

The park contains 15 miles (24 km) of beaches, as well as sand dunes, bogs, marshes, swamps, fens, prairies, rivers, oak savannas, and woodland forests. The park is also noted for its singing sands. More than 350 species of birds have been observed in the park. It has one of the most diverse plant communities of any unit in the U.S. National Park System with 1418 vascular plant species including 90 threatened or endangered ones. The Indiana Dunes area is unique in that it contains both Arctic and boreal plants (such as the bearberry) alongside desert plants (such as the prickly pear cactus).

First-time visitors to the Lakeshore often go to the Dorothy Buell Memorial Visitor Center at U.S. Highway 20 and Indiana Route 49, near Porter, Indiana. This brand-new center (2007) offers standard visitor-center amenities, including a video, brochures, hands-on exhibits, and a gift shop. It is free to the general public.

Camping is available at the Dunewood Campground on U.S. Highway 12 and Broadway, in Beverly Shores, Indiana. The campground includes an RV dump station and two loops of trailer accessible sites (some with pull-through drives). All sites have grills, a picnic table, and access to restrooms with running water and showers. There are a limited number of walk-in sites in the Douglas Loop.

The park provides opportunities for bird watching, camping, 45 miles (72 km) of hiking, fishing, swimming, horseback riding, and cross-country skiing. Cycling is available on the Calumet Trail, a crushed limestone multiuse trail which runs through the eastern section of the park, providing access to the Indiana Dunes State Park, as well as to the communities of Beverly Shores, Indiana; the Town of Pines, Indiana; and Mount Baldy (Sand Dune) on the edge of Michigan City, Indiana. The park had more than 2 million visits in 2005.

Rules state not to feed any of the wildlife, including seagulls, deer, or raccoons.

Wildlife:

Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore is full of wildlife, including whitetail deer, red fox, raccoons, oppossums, cottontail rabbits, Canada geese, seagulls, squirrels, hawks, turkey vultures, mallards, great blue herons, garter snakes, songbirds, and rodents.

Lakeshore history:

Early 1900's:

The Indiana Dunes area first came to prominence in 1899 when Henry Cowles did some of the pioneering work in American plant ecology there. Despite attempts to protect the area from threats such as the nearby Gary steel mills led by groups such as the Prairie Club of Chicago, the area continued to be exploited. The tallest dune in Indiana, the 200 foot (60 m) high Hoosier Slide, was hauled away and turned into glass by Pittsburgh Plate Glass and canning jars by Ball Brothers.

Founding of State Park:

In 1916 there was talk of making the site the "Sand Dunes National Park". Indiana State Park's founder Richard Lieber toured the site with then NPS Director Stephen Mather on October 31, 1916 to gauge its worthiness. In 1926, part of the area became the Indiana Dunes State Park. A few years after, the Indiana Dunes Bathhouse and Pavilion was erected just north of the park entrance. The bathhouse continues to be widely used today and remains in its original form.

Conflict with Industry:

Significant political controversy arose in the 1950's and 1960's due to conflicts between industrial expansion and recreational use of the lakefront, and is noted in the administrative history of the National Lakeshore. One event heavily protested was the removal of a sand dune to provide landfill for the expansion of Northwestern University's Evanston, IL campus, . Bethlehem Steel was additionally granted permits to build a plant at Burns Harbor, IN, displacing dunes and wildlife. A harbor, Burns Harbor, was also proposed for the area.

Citizens united to form the Save the Dunes Council and gained political support to protect the remaining lakeshore. In 1963, the Kennedy Compromise linked the construction of the Port of Indiana to the development of a National Lakeshore. The Lakeshore was created in 1966 and expanded in 1976, 1980, 1986 and 1992.

Lakeshore landmarks:

Bailly-Chellberg Farm:

The Bailly-Chellberg farmstead is located close to the geographic center of the National Lakeshore, at U.S. Highway 20 and Mineral Springs Road. This is the location of the pioneer trading post established in 1822 by fur trader Joseph Bailly. Bailly setled here and his 1830s retirement house survives. The real estate became the home of the Chellberg family, who built a farm on its sandy soil. As of 2008, the Lakeshore maintains a heritage farm on the Chellberg land.

Cowles Bog:

Cowles Bog, a National Natural Landmark, is a fen wetland named in honor of biologist and ecologist Henry Cowles. Located south and west of Dune Acres, Indiana, Cowles Bog is the sole remaining remnant of the Central Dunes where Cowles performed his pioneering field studies of plant succession and species diversity. A National Lakeshore trail runs from Mineral Springs Road into Cowles Bog.

Hoosier Prairie:

Hoosier Prairie, a National Natural Landmark, is a 430-acre (1.7 km�) tallgrass prairie adjacent to Griffith, Indiana. It is a geographically isolated unit of the Lakeshore, owned and maintained by the Indiana Department of Natural Resources as a state nature preserve. 574 separate species of plants have been observed growing in this patch of prairie, or more than 1 species per acre.

Mount Baldy:

Mount Baldy is a sand dune located west of Michigan City, Indiana. At 123 feet tall, it is one of the tallest sand dunes on the southern shore of Lake Michigan. It is a wandering dune that moves an average of 4 feet every year, and so is called a "living dune." Mount Baldy is accessible from U.S. Route 12 (also known as Dunes Highway) between the town of Pines and the western border of Michigan City. Visitors can hike 0.7 miles up the dune and from the top, on a clear day, can view Chicago's skyline and the south shore. North of Mount Baldy is a swimming beach.

Pinhook Bog:

Pinhook Bog, a National Natural Landmark, is a geographically isolated unit of the National Lakeshore. The quaking peat bog is located near U.S. Highway 421 approximately 9 miles (14 km) south of Michigan City. The bog formed from a postglacial kettle moraine left behind about 14,000 years before the present by the melting of the ice sheet during the end of the Wisconsin glaciation. The acidic bog is noted for pitcher plants and other wetland species. Access to the bog is restricted to ranger-led guided tours.

West Beach:

West Beach, located adjacent to U.S. Highway 12 near the village of Ogden Dunes, Indiana, is a geographically separated section of the Lakeshore that is preserved as a piece of public beach access and an example of the same theme of plant succession as is found in Cowles Bog. This section of the Lakeshore displays most of the successive stages of Indiana Dunes biotic progression, from open beach sands to mature black oak forest. A new (2007) West Beach Succession Trail (0.7 miles (1.1 km) in length) features different stages of plant succession in the beach and inland dunes.
Bigger photos? To save server space, the full-sized versions of these images have either not been loaded to the server or have been removed from the server. (Only some pages are loaded with full-sized images and those usually get removed after three months.) I still have them though. If you want me to email them to you, please send an email to guthrie.bruce@gmail.com and I can email them to you, or, depending on the number of images, just repost the page again will the full-sized images.
2001 photos: Since 1984, I've lived in Silver Spring, Maryland. From 1981 to 2002, photos were taken using a Pentax ME Super camera. From 1989 to 2002, I was doing all pictures as prints (instead of slides which I had grown up on). In 1997, at the age of 40, my photo obsession began and I started taking thousands of photos per year. In September, 2002, I switched to digital cameras and the number of photos exploded. Trips this year: This was the year of 9/11 and many of the places that had been commonplace to visit beforehand suddenly became a pain in the neck or not available at all. I took a two-week trip right before 9/11 in New England and then took a one-week trip afterward to North Carolina. Image quality for my pictures is variable because these are scans of slides and/or prints at varying quality/resolutions. The Great Pandemic Digitizing Project: When I was first setting up my website in August, 2000, I had decided to digitize some of my favorite pre-digital slides and prints. The scans were fairly low resolution but they were good enough. With COVID forcing me to stay indoors, I decided to rescan ALL of my pre-digital images from multiple sources (slides, prints, and negatives) at a much higher resolution and quality setting. (I digitized Dad's slides at the same time). Instead of replacing my original scans, I added the new scans to existing pages, figuring I'd select the best ones later. As a result, multiple versions of images appear on most of these early pages. At some point, I'll take the time to do a final review and get rid of the duplicates.
Connection Not Secure messages? Those warnings you get from your browser about this site not having secure connections worry some people. This means this site does not have SSL installed (the link is http:, not https:). That's bad if you're entering credit card numbers, passwords, or other personal information. But this site doesn't collect any personal information so SSL is not necessary. Life's good!
Photo Contact: [Email Bruce Guthrie].