If you like to hike, Michigan has more than 4,000 miles of state-designated trails. Here are a few to try if you haven't ...

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore offers sand and recreation in nature along 25 miles of Lake Michigan shoreline. Here's what to know.

Mac Wood’s Dune Rides will be open May 16- September 30. In the early season, before Memorial Day, dune rides are 10 a.m. - 4 ...

Through cycles of evaporation and wind erosion, sand built up into dunes. Now people can be amongst huge, pristine rippled white sand dunes as far as the eye can see. Visitors also flock to the ...

The manifest elements of those actions are readily visible. On cloudless days the clear waters of Lake Michigan reflect the sky, washing the white dunes and tawny sand in bold and colorful brush ...

a woman named Dorothy Buell was inspired to help protect the dunes after returning home from a vacation to White Sands National Park in New Mexico. In 1952, she formed her own conservation group ...

“Doesn’t it mean that vehicles should be able to go there?” Yegan retorted. Not quite, White said. Yes, when Oceano Dunes became a California State Park in the 1970s, the state intended to let ...

Appearances can be deceiving. At first glance, you'd never think the rolling white sand dunes of southeastern New Mexico and west Texas held the largest stand of oak in the country. The region's ...