The state park is home to one of Michigan’s six scramble sites and the only sand dune riding opportunity east of the Mississippi River, according to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.

At Tunnel Park, a concrete tunnel was built to go straight through a sand dune to provide access to Lake Michigan for swimming, sunbathing, and picnicking. The park offers beach volleyball ...

The varying terrain, which includes both open dunes and forested areas, provides a diverse riding experience ... Located ...

Yes No The Silver Lake Sand Dunes are made for adrenaline-seekers and beach lovers craving uninterrupted days on the coast. Go horseback riding along Lake Michigan's eastern shore at Silver Lake ...

ehrlif//Getty A 12-year-old boy has been hospitalized after being buried in a sand dune at a Michigan state park. The child and his 8-year-old brother were playing in the sand dunes during a ...

This story appears in the November 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. I got my first lesson in the physics of sand dunes in 1998 on an expedition into the Sahara. In order to take aerial ...

Visitors can spend hours walking half a dozen trails, fishing, boating, biking, surfing, horseback riding ... the dunes, the Dunes Cordwalk trail runs 2 miles parallel to the Lake Michigan ...

NIPSCO plans to soon decommission the Michigan City Generating Station ... at the site of the former Hoosier Slide, a towering sand dune that was hauled off by the Ball Corporation of Muncie ...

Iverson, J. D. & Rasmussen, K. R. The effect of wind speed and bed slope on sand transport. Sedimentology 46, 723-731 (1999). Olson, J. S. Lake Michigan dune development — plants as agents and ...

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is covered in sand dunes that tower more than 450 feet above Lake Michigan. Visitors can climb to the top of the dunes to admire their surroundings or enjoy ...