A Visit to a Dunes Homestead

[ozma914]

As I mentioned last post, Emily and I visited a National Park for the first time last week. We've been next door several times, to the Indiana Dunes State Park, but hadn't moved one stop over. But in our defense, there was no National Park there, until February of just last year.

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[kazzy_cee]

Do people still live in the houses or are they just preserved as historical buildings?

[ozma914]

No, they're unoccupied now, which is probably for the best considering a hiking trail runs right by them. I don't know if indoor tours are ordinarily available, but they weren't at the time we passed.

[cbtreks]

Did you have to do a lot of climbing? (I've never been there - remember going to the Indiana Dunes State Park when I was 5 - I don't think I ever got up them! I wouldn't even attempt it now, unless I felt like dying.)

[ozma914]

On that particular day at the National Park we didn't, but the time before we went to the State Park and took the "3 Dune Challenge" ... and, wow, there was a lot of climbing! There are places in the National Park where they say there's a lot of climbing, but we didn't make it to any of those that day.