Runners * Explorers * Dream Chasers
Trail #16 of the Indiana Dunes National Park 1966 Hiking Challenge is the Hobart Wooded Trail at Robinson Lake in Hobart, Indiana. This trail is part of the Oak Savannah Trail that we have biked many times over the past years. As we continue on our last three trails of the 1966 Hiking Challenge, the […]
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Trail #15 of the Indiana Dunes National Park 1966 Hiking Challenge is the Dunewood Trace Trail in Chesterton, Indiana. This trail is part of the larger Calumet Dunes and Glenwood Dunes Trail systems in a rich landscape of woods and wetlands that are over 12,000 years old. Hiking the Dunewood Trace felt like a place […]
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Trail #13 of the Indiana Dunes National Park 1966 Hiking Challenge is the West Beach 3-Loop Trail in Gary, Indiana. We first hiked this trail in the dead of winter in 2021 when we were new to the area and wanted to explore the trails. You can read our winter hike blog here: Hiking the […]
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Trail #12 of the Indiana Dunes National Park 1966 Hiking Challenge is the Little Calumet River and Mnoké Prairie Trail in Porter, Indiana. We returned to the Bailly-Chellberg Farm (Trail #2) that we completed a couple weeks ago to hike the outer loop of the woodland trail, explore the Mnoké Prairie’s grasslands, and follow the […]
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Trail #11 of the Indiana Dunes National Park 1966 Hiking Challenge is the Marquette Trail in Gary, Indiana. This rail to trail is part of the former Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad that used to run through Miller Woods and was named after Father Jacques Marquette, the French Jesuit missionary, who explored the Great Lakes region in […]
Read MoreWhen I was a kid, I used to bike all around my neighborhood. Pedaling as fast as I could with the wind rushing through me, I accelerated down the big hill without brakes like an adrenaline junkie while a blur of tiger lilies and cattails surrounding Shipshewana Lake blanketed my peripheral vision. It felt like […]
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It seems as though the season has finally turned to springtime with days of fresh rain and sunshine. With the warmer weather on our faces, we commenced our goal to bike the network of trails weaving through the Lakeshore area. We obtained a copy of the Northwest Indiana Greenways and Blueways map from our local […]
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