Indiana Dunes (May 29-June 1)

 I was a little nervous, at first, because our camp site did not have a water hook-up — only electric. But it turned out fine.  We filled our fresh water tank before leaving the last site and only used half of it during the three nights at Indiana Dunes State Park.  The park is surrounded on three sides by Indiana Dunes National Park and the fourth by Lake Michigan.  Jenny and I did the Dune Succession Trail and the “Diana of the Dune Dare” at the national park, which was a little over a mile with 270 stair steps up a dune with a lot of the hike on soft sand.  

Later that day I did a five-mile hike back in the state park.  The day before I did the three-dune challenge.  While the total elevation gain of the challenge was only 500-600 feet, there was a lot of that deep soft sand to hike on.  Combined with slopes of 30 to 45 degrees, that made for a challenging climb. 

Also at this stop in the trip, we saw some then-futuristic houses from the 1930s. They were moved here, for some reason, after the World’s Fair.  See Jenny’s FaceBook post for some house pictures.  I’ll leave you with some pictures of and from the sand dunes.