News Release

National Park offers First Day of Spring Hike

Date: March 15, 2023

INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL PARK: Join a ranger at Indiana Dunes National Park’s Heron Rookery on Sunday, March 19 from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm for a two-hour hike to celebrate the first day of spring and discover what woodland flowers are blooming. The Heron Rookery is perhaps the best location in the region to see spring wildflowers. Meet in the Heron Rookery east parking lot. 

The hike starts from the Heron’s Rookery’s east parking lot, which is located at 1336 North County Road 600E in Michigan City. The GPS coordinates are 41.626948, -86.951566 (decimal degrees). For more information on this and other programs at Indiana Dunes National Park you can call 219-395-1882. Or, please visit our website, download the official National Park Service app, or view our Facebook page. 

Indiana Dunes National Park has an entrance fee of $25 per car for a 1–7-day pass. A $45 annual pass for the national park is also available. Please purchase passes or pay the entrance fee at the Indiana Dunes Visitor Center or at www.recreation.gov/sitepass/indu. Veteran, Access, and 4^th Grade passes are available for free. For more information on national park passes go to www.nps.gov/indu. 

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The 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. Over 3 million visitors come to the Indiana Dunes each year.