Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore

After finally leaving Chicago, we stopped in at the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore to check out the dunes and Lake Michigan shoreline. This was a case of my wanting to cram in as many stops as possible into a single day. In hindsight, we probably could have easily skipped it, but having stopped, Conor and I took a short hike into the dunes and onto West Beach where we found hundreds of people enjoying the lake and sandy beach in the 90 degree heat.