The state has added 164 acres to Alburgh Dunes State Park, protecting 4,800 feet of Lake Champlain shoreline in the process, The Nature Conservancy and the state’s Agency of Natural Resources ...

Get a taste of wilderness remarkably close to Chicago and other urban centers at Indiana Dunes National Park, which NPCA has been helping to preserve and enhance. With 15 miles of Lake Michigan coast ...

BRUNEAU, Idaho — The Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation announced Friday that Bruneau Dunes State Park has received the formal designation from Dark Sky International as an International Dark ...

Halfway through the 3 Dune Challenge at Indiana Dunes State Park on the Lake Michigan shore in northwest Indiana. (Susan Glaser, The Plain Dealer) PORTER, Indiana — From high atop Mount Baldy, I look ...

BRUNEAU, Idaho — It may look like an empty desert, but Bruneau Dunes State Park has 400-foot-tall windswept sand, wide-open skies, and 4800 acres of nature with countless adventures and opportunities ...

PORTAGE, Ind. (WLS) -- The Indiana Dunes National Park has reopened a beach area that was closed after state officials discovered a steel plant leaked toxic levels of cyanide and ammonia-nitrogen into ...

For the last century, painters, governors, campers, hikers, birders, buses full of school kids on field trips and countless beach-goers have made their way to the Lake Michigan shoreline at the ...

Editor's note: A previous version of this story ran in September 2023. This story has been updated with the most recent information provided by the Department of National Resources and the Indiana ...

A federal government shutdown started Oct. 1. Typically a shutdown results in the closure of or limited access to resources at National Park Service sites, which includes the Indiana Dunes. Can you ...