News Release

Horseback Riding on the Beach at the National Park

Date: September 21, 2022

INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL PARK: Join fellow equestrians on Sunday, October 2, from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm, at West Beach, for an extremely rare chance to ride on the beaches of Lake Michigan! BYOH (Bring your own horse). No horse rentals will be available. Reservations are required and space is limited. Please call the Indiana Dunes Visitor Center at 219-395-1882 for more information and to make reservations. Reservations will be accepted starting on Friday, September 23^rd at 9:00 am Central Time. There is a $25 fee for this program, due at the time of registration. 

West Beach is located at 376 North County Line Road in Portage. For more information on this and other programs at Indiana Dunes National Park you can call 219-395-1882. Please visit our website at www.nps.gov/indu, download the official National Park Service app, or view our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/IndianaDunesNPS. 

The national park’s new entrance fee went into effect staring on March 31, 2022. The fee is $25 per car for a 1–7-day pass. A $45 annual pass for the Indiana Dunes National Park is also available. Holders of the following federal passes will not pay an entrance fee: Annual, Senior, Veterans/Military/Gold Star Family, 4th Grade, Access (disability), and the Volunteer Passes. For more information on other national park passes and details about the new fee, go to www.nps.gov/indu. Please purchase passes or pay entrance fees at the Indiana Dunes Visitor Center or at www.recreation.gov/sitepass/indu. When parking, display pass or receipt on the rearview mirror or dashboard. 

www.nps.gov/indu 

Indiana Dunes National Park is one of more than 400 units of the National Park System ranging from Yellowstone to the Statue of Liberty. Located in Northwest Indiana, the park includes 15 miles of Lake Michigan shoreline and 15,000 acres of biodiverse beaches, woods, prairies, and marshes. Up to 3 million visitors come to the Indiana Dunes each year.