Archive for category: sleeping bear dunes

Sleeping Bear Dunes Summer 2025 Event Highlights!

The Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore has released their highlights for summer 2025.
Dunes Overlook and view south by Mike Carey

Sleeping Bear Dunes Overlook Platform has been removed

The 50-year-old Lake Michigan Overlook platform on the Pierce Stocking Scenic Drive in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore has been removed
Endangered Piping Plover Pair by JamesEyeViewPhotography

Gabby, the Oldest Plover is back home in Sleeping Bear!

GabbY, the oldest piping plover known on the Great Lakes has returned to Sleeping Bear Dunes for another year!

In Leelanau, Our Skyscrapers Are Sand Dunes

Our national parks are great at preservation, including really big sand dunes in Leelanau and Benzie counties!

Mark Lindsay shares The Soul of Sleeping Bear

Mark has released his first book, The Soul of Sleeping Bear. It’s a beautiful, coffee table book that blends gorgeous photography of the Sleeping Bear with writings on what these vistas can spark in your heart.
In the Michigan Immense Public Park by Andrew Mcfarlane

A Letter from the Lakeshore

Letter from a National Forest Service employee who is neck deep in the horrors being perpetrated against the National Park Service and the National Forest Service.

Happy Valentine’s Day, Leelanau!!

Happy Valentine’s Day everyone & I hope you have a lovely & love-filled Valentine’s Day & weekend!
Sleeping Bear Bay by Mark Smith

Happy 54th Birthday, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore!

54 years ago today the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore became the third US National Lakeshore.
County Road Ends at Water by Glen Arbor Sun

County Road Ends at Water

A perfect reminder for everyone to pay attention to your driving & traffic laws as we head into the Labor Day Weekend.

Looking Down Glen Lake Looks the Same

Even though things in our nation & world are absolutely bonkers right now, there's comfort in the fact that this view hasn't changed in the three years since Owen shared it.
Lake Michigan ... strawberry moon by Ken Scott Photography

Summer Solstice & the Strawberry Moon

The summer solstice is the point when the sun reaches its highest and northernmost point in the sky & the moment that summer officially begins.
Rainbows Over Lake Michigan by James Eye View Photography

Double Rainbows over Lake Michigan

James got some great shots of a double rainbow at sunrise over Lake Michigan in Empire yesterday morning.