Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore News

Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore Park Superintendent Costa Dillon is retiring in August after 35 years in the National Park Service.

The National Park Service reports marksmen culled 84 white-tailed deer from the east side of Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore during a 10-day program.

The Linden log cabin, which has roots back to Northwest Indiana's early settlers, will be on the move south to Kouts where it likely will rest on the Collier Lodge archeological dig site.

The Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore along Lake Michigan has a new Distance Learning Center and Nature Play Zone, thanks in part to the family of a Portage man that wanted to spread his love of the park to future generations.

Featuring free Wi-Fi in all rooms, this Michigan City, Indiana inn is 15 minutes' drive to shopping opportunities at Lighthouse Place Premium Outlets.

Bob Daum of the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore tells The Times in Munster that last year's early spring caused a "mismatch of timing in biology." That harmed the federally endangered Karner blue butterfly that is native to the dunes.