Alt Text Map of Indiana Dunes National Park in Indiana. Park areas are shown in grass or frosty green on cream-white land against the blue water of Lake Michigan. A network of roads is shown in red. Extended Description The coastline of Lake Michigan curves gently from near the top right corner down and across the map. Patches along most of the coastline are shaded medium green, and one area, Indiana Dunes State Park, is shown in pale, light green. A few outlying areas are also shaded medium or light green. This description will start with sites along the coastline from east to west before moving to the surrounding area and a full transcription of the legend. Along the Coastline A dotted blue line representing the Lake Michigan Water Trail runs close and parallel to the coastline along its length. Starting in the northeast corner, Washington Park (Michigan City park) is shaded light green and has a snack bar, picnic area, swimming area, beach access, a zoo, and marina. An Amtrak station sits just outside the park. A short distance away are several beaches and sites in a band of medium green. Moving southwest, these include the expansive Great Marsh; Mount Baldy Beach with parking, a picnic area, and beach access; Central Avenue Beach with parking and beach access; Lake View Beach with parking, a picnic area, beach access, and wheelchair access; Dunbar Beach with parking and beach access; and Kemil Beach with beach access. Other sites in this area include the Calumet Bike Trail, Great Marsh Trail, Beverly Shores Railroad Station, Dune Ridge Trail, five structures in the area labeled 1933 Century of Progress Homes, and two parking areas. A white, non-park rectangle in the middle of this part of the park is Beverly Shores. The darker green area now cups the pale, frost-green Indiana Dunes State Park, which has a Nature Center with a campground and picnic area; various unnamed trails; State Park Bathhouse with a snack bar, swimming area, beach access, wheelchair access, cross-country ski trail, and Mount Tom. Back in the darker green zone and continuing under Indiana Dunes State Park are the Dunewood Campground with wheelchair access and an amphitheater; Dunewood Trace; Calumet Dunes Trail with parking and a self-guiding trail; Glenwood Dunes Horse and Hiking Trail with parking, a picnic area, a cross-country ski trail, and horseback riding; Tremont with a picnic area; Dune Park Railroad Station; ; and Porter Beach with parking, beach access, and wheelchair access. The Indiana Dunes Visitor Center is labeled with a dark green callout box south of the park in this area. The medium green area tapers in the final leg of the section, which is about two-thirds of the way across the map. Sites here include Cowles Bog Trail, wetlands, four parking areas, a picnic area, Park Headquarters with a ranger station, Dunes Learning Center, Bally Homestead, Chellberg Farm, Bailly Cemetery, and Little Calumet River Trail. Between the tail end of this section and the shoreline is the Port of Indiana. Near the Port of Indiana is text reading, “Indiana Dunes National Park boundary extends 100 yards into Lake Michigan and National Park Service regulations apply. Areas of shore below Ordinary High Water are open to public use.” Just west of this is the final, blocky progression of medium green spaces. Sites here begin with Portage Lakefront and Riverwalk with a pavilion, parking, snack bar, a picnic area, beach access, wheelchair access, and a self-guiding trail. Continuing on are parking near the Tolleston Dunes Trail, which has a cross-country ski trail; Tolleston Dunes Overlook, which has wheelchair access and is near wetlands; West Beach with a bathhouse, picnic area, swimming area, beach access, wheelchair access, and a self-guiding trail; Dune Succession Trail; West Beach Trail; and Long Lake Trail. The final half of this area includes Marquette Trail, which is wheelchair accessible; Marquette Park (City of Gary park) with food service, a picnic area, swimming area, and beach access; parking; boat launch, Paul H. Douglas Trail; and Paul H. Douglas Center for Environmental Education with information, wheelchair access, and a self-guiding trail. Surrounding Areas US Route 12 and railroad tracks enter the map near the bottom left corner and angle up to and across the park areas. They diverge just east of the main body of the park before they reach Washington Park. There US Route 12 continues lakeside and the railroad tracks veer east. Interstate Highway 80 runs east-west from south of Gary to the west, through Portage, and east to South Bend via Pinhook Bog. Interstate Highway 94 runs east-west, intersecting Highway 80 south of Gary, through Chersterton, and east to Kalamazoo. From west to east, Calumet Prairie State Nature Preserve, represented in light green, is south of Marquette Park. The Iron Horse Heritage Trail, originating in Portage, and the longer Prairie Duneland Trail, beginning near Hobart, travel northeast before merging east of Portage and south of the nature preserve, then meeting Porter Brickyard Trail in Chesterton southwest of the Indiana Dunes Visitor Center. In the right third of the map and both shown in medium green are Heron Rookery, with parking available at either end of the Heron Rookery Trail; and Pinhook Bog (access through ranger-leg tours), which has parking and a wetland. Legend A scale in the lower left corner of the map measures distances of 1 and 2 kilometers and 1 and 2 miles. Stretching across the bottom of the map the legend reads as follows: Medium green for National Park, Light green for City Park, Frost green for State Park and State Nature Preserve within boundary of National Park, Smaller black dashed line for Hiking trail, Large green dashed line for Bicycle trail, Blue dashed line for Water trail, and Blue lines in a diamondlike pattern against green for Wetland. Twelve symbols represent Ranger station, Wheelchair-accessible, Campground, Picnic area, Swimming area, Beach access, Self-guiding trail, Cross-country ski trail, Horseback riding, Trailhead/beach access parking, Amphitheater, and Snack bar. Text next to a shield symbol marked “USA National Recreation Trail” reads, “Trails on the map that are part of the National Recreation Trail: Lake Michigan Water Trail and Calumet Bike Trail.”