Detour: Take an Indiana Dunes Day Trip
For over a century, an Indiana Dunes day trip has been one of the best detours from our big city. Many Chicagoans still make this delightful trek every summer. In fact, some of the Detours tour guides took an Indiana Dunes day trip recently. We did not plan these separate excursions as research for this post. We […]
A True Detour: Miller Beach
Chicagoans associate Indiana with Gary, and its steel mills, unemployment, and factory landscape. Few are aware of the nearby community of Miller Beach, surrounded by the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. (Little fact: Only four parks have the designation of “National Lakeshore” and all of them are on the Great Lakes.) Carl Sandburg buried his toes […]