Indiana Dunes

The National Park Service has approved an entrance fee for Indiana Dunes National Park beginning on March 31 to help fund parking and transportation improvements, visitor services and a bike trail.

Visitors will soon have to pay to get into Indiana Dunes National Park. An entrance fee will be required starting March 31, according to a news release from the Indiana Dunes National Park. The fee will be $15 if walking in, biking in or boating in, park officials stated. However, the maximum charge will be $25 per family. Additionally, a…

Beaches reopened in Portage, Indiana, Tuesday after an orange substance spilled from a plant into a Lake Michigan tributary over the past several days. NBC 5’s Chris Coffey reports.

Indiana Dunes National Park could begin charging entrance fees by March 31, 2022, after having been free of cost for over 50 years, the park announced.

Officials at Indiana Dunes National Park want to hear from visitors as they develop a strategy to add services at the park, ranging from food or beverage sales to organized tours.

Consuming alcohol will be prohibited at Porter Beach along Lake Michigan through Labor Day weekend, Indiana Dunes National Park announced Friday.

Fire crews Saturday contained a wildfire to 325 acres of Indiana Dunes National Park in northwest Indiana.

Authorities plan four prescribed fires at Indiana Dunes National Park this spring, totaling more than 900 acres.

A lifeguard shortage has prompted Indiana Dunes State Park to ban beachgoers from swimming and wading in Lake Michigan at the lakeside park until September. Park officials announced the ban Friday, but stressed that the beach will remain open for walking and other activities on the shore during regular park hours, The (Northwest Indiana) Times reported. The park is located about...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is seeking the public’s feedback on a proposed cleanup of coal ash buried along Lake Michigan that the agency believes is threatening wildlife at the Indiana Dunes National Park. The EPA has drafted a cleanup plan for the eastern part of Northern Indiana Public Service Co.’s former Bailly Generating Station in Chesterton. The deadline...

An Illinois teenager has been identified as the swimmer who drowned in Lake Michigan at Indiana Dunes State Park, authorities said. Dominic Snovicky, 18, of Plainfield, Illinois, was rushed to Porter Regional Hospital and pronounced dead at 2:12 p.m. Tuesday, the Porter County coroner’s office said. Snovicky went underwater about 11 a.m., Porter Fire Chief Lewis Craig Jr. said. He…

For the first time in months, many families craving a sense of normalcy visited the Indiana Dunes National Park on Friday as it reopened to the public. Some people spent the beginning of their Memorial Day weekend setting up tents while others decided to walk the trails for some fresh air. Under Indiana Gov. Holcomb’s reopening plan, camping was...

As the Indiana Dunes reopen for business just in time for the holiday weekend, NBC 5’s Chris Coffey found a lot of families taking advantage of the opportunity in hopes of some sense of normalcy.

The Indiana Dunes National Park will reopen part of a local beach in time for the Memorial Day weekend, but beachgoers will be monitored to make sure they adhere to coronavirus pandemic safeguards, a park official said Tuesday.

Indiana has already opened hair salons, barber shops and spas, along with restaurants at half capacity. However, coronavirus-related deaths continue as 32 hoosiers die on Monday. NBC 5’s Sandra Torres reports.

Several state and local officials are expected to join a celebration of the Indiana Dunes as the newest national park.

A new report says Indiana’s tourism and recreation industry will have to adjust as climate change makes the state warmer and wetter in the coming decades.

For the third day in a row, beachgoers are being warned to stay out of Lake Michigan waters as “life-threatening waves and currents” are forecast.

At least 18 Chicago beaches were under a swim ban Tuesday morning because of high waves and dangerous conditions in Lake Michigan, as a Beach Hazard statement remained in effect.