Chicago, Illinois
Come with Annie and I to the Indiana Dunes State Park in Porter, Indiana and enjoy in HD!! I've been staying with Annie, my friend from high school, for a few days now. She's a model in Chicago and today she invited me along for her bikini shoot at the dunes/porter beach! I'm excited to do some swimming and see more of the midwest as we drive all the way there from Chicago!!
Experience Edgewater Beach with me and enjoy in HD!! I've been staying with my friend from high school for a few days now here in Chicago. This part of the vlog series (Part 2!) features us walking her dogs and biking along the breathtaking Lakefront Trail!!
Carlos flew out to see me for my final weekend in Chicago! I've been staying with Annie, my friend from high school, for a few days now here in the Chi. Part 3 of the vlog series features Carlos and I driving and walking around the greater Chicago area, and going out to eat with our friends who so kindly hosted us. Like, comment, and subscribe for more travel content like this! Enjoy this video in HD!!
READ ABOUT THE DUNES:
Visitors can enjoy Indiana Dunes State Park in a wide variety of ways. A campground, many picnic shelters and picnic areas, more than 16 miles of hiking trails, a swimming beach, and the Nature Center are available for visitors' use.
During the summer season, a beach pavilion provides shelter, restrooms with outside showers only, a snack bar, and gift shop. - Dunes Nature Preserve, encompassing 1,530 acres and located within the boundaries of the state park, provides visitors with an opportunity to explore pristine and unique landscapes.
Indiana Dunes State Park features a wide variety of habitats, including beach, sand dunes, black oak forest, wooded wetlands, and a button-bush marsh. Together, these areas contain some of the most diverse flora and fauna in the Midwest. Botanists from across the country enjoy studying the unusual collection of plant life. In fact, it was here that Henry Cowles, known to many as the "father of ecology" did his landmark studies of succession in the early 1900s. As a result of his work, Indiana Dunes became known as "the birthplace of ecology."
The dunes provide an opportunity to explore an exciting and ever-changing landscape. In several areas, huge "living" or "moving" dunes are slowly being blown inland, burying forests as they go. A prime example can be seen from Trail 9. Other interesting features include "tree graveyards" (places where forests have been buried by sand and then, more recently, re-exposed by wind erosion). "Tree graveyards" can be seen in Big Blowout, near Trail 10.
The Indiana Dunes area also is renowned throughout the Midwest for its birding. Visit the Nature Center to ask about good birding locations. - Indiana Dunes State Park is surrounded by Indiana Dunes National Park, a federally administered park comprising approximately 15,000 acres.
