Indiana Dunes National Park
Fifteen miles of Lake Michigan shoreline backed by dunes, bog and prairie.
- 51named trails
- 98trail miles mapped
- Indianalocation
Popular hikes in Indiana Dunes
- Portage Lakefront · about 0.8 mi · Easy
- Great Marsh Trail · about 1.3 mi · Easy
- Dune Ridge Trail · about 0.7 mi · Moderate
- Pinhook Bog · about 2 mi · Moderate
- Tolleston Dunes · about 2.6 mi · Moderate
- Cowles Bog Trail · about 4.7 mi · Moderate
- 3 Dune Challenge · about 1.5 mi · Strenuous
Permits and reservations
No reservation is needed. A valid entrance pass or receipt is required in the park's fee areas, such as the beaches, but there is no fee to enter the Visitor Center.
- Entrance pass: Keep a valid pass or your receipt with you. Vehicles in the official lots without one can be cited.
- Dunewood Campground: All 67 sites can be reserved up to 6 months ahead on Recreation.gov.
Entrance fees
- Motorcycle: $20
- Private Vehicle: $25
- Per Person: $15
- Commercial Entrance - Sedan: $25
Official park site: nps.gov
All 51 trails in Indiana Dunes
- Accessible Trail · 0.2 mi round trip · Easy
- Bailley / Chellberg Trail · 5.02 mi round trip · Easy
- Bailly/Chellberg Trails · 1.66 mi round trip · Easy
- Beach Trail · 1.02 mi round trip · Easy
- Brickyard Trail (north section) · 2.22 mi round trip · Easy
- Brickyard Trail (south section) · 0.24 mi round trip · Easy
- Calumet Trail · 18.42 mi round trip · Easy
- Charing-Bellevue Trail · 0.96 mi round trip · Easy
- Cowles Bog Trail · 4.76 mi round trip · Easy
- DLT n - Howe Rd to Broadway · 20.66 mi round trip · Easy
- Dune Ridge Trail · 1.22 mi round trip · Easy
- Dune Succession Trail · 1.28 mi round trip · Easy
- Dunes Long Trail Alternates · 24.16 mi round trip · Strenuous
- Dunewood Trace · 3.66 mi round trip · Easy
- Fire Trail · 0.56 mi round trip · Easy
- Glenwood Dunes Trails (northeast section) · 6.08 mi round trip · Easy
- Glenwood Dunes Trails (southwest section) · 14.56 mi round trip · Easy
- Great Marsh Trail · 1.72 mi round trip · Easy
- Greenbelt Trail · 2.74 mi round trip · Easy
- Heenan · 0.26 mi round trip · Easy
- Heron Rookery Trail · 3.16 mi round trip · Easy
- Hobart Woodland Trail · 1.3 mi round trip · Easy
- Little Calumet River Trail · 6.26 mi round trip · Easy
- Long Lake Trail · 3.02 mi round trip · Easy
- Marquette Greenway · 2.4 mi round trip · Easy
- Marquette Trail · 4.12 mi round trip · Easy
- McAllister Prairie Trail · 0.62 mi round trip · Easy
- Miller Woods Connection To Lakefront · 2.32 mi round trip · Easy
- Mount Baldy Trails · 1 mi round trip · Easy
- Nature Center Trail · 0.28 mi round trip · Easy
- Paul H. Douglas Trail · 4.42 mi round trip · Easy
- Pinhook Bog Trail · 2 mi round trip · Moderate
- Portage Lakefront and Riverwalk Trail · 3.26 mi round trip · Easy
- Prairie Marsh Trail · 0.62 mi round trip · Easy
- Riverwalk · 1.1 mi round trip · Easy
- Sand Track Walking Trail · 1.6 mi round trip · Easy
- Savanna Trail · 0.6 mi round trip · Easy
- Tolleston Dunes Long Loop · 2 mi round trip · Easy
- Tolleston Dunes Short Loop · 1.04 mi loop · Easy
- Tolleston Dunes Trail · 2.6 mi round trip · Moderate
- Trail 10 · 12.12 mi round trip · Easy
- Trail 2 · 5.18 mi round trip · Easy
- Trail 3 · 2.08 mi round trip · Easy
- Trail 4 · 0.7 mi round trip · Easy
- Trail 4, Trail 7 · 0.16 mi round trip · Easy
- Trail 7 · 0.26 mi round trip · Easy
- Trail 8 · 2 mi round trip · Easy
- Trail 9 · 5.66 mi round trip · Easy
- Upland Trail · 0.94 mi round trip · Easy
- West Beach Trail · 2.32 mi round trip · Easy
- West Beach Trail - Three Loops · 7.5 mi round trip · Easy
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