Marquette Park, Gary

Name: Marquette Park
Address: Gary, United States

#5 among attractions in Gary

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Marquette Park, originally called Lake Front Park, is a municipal park completely surrounded by Indiana Dunes National Park. Its primary elements include 1.4 miles of white sand Lake Michigan beaches, inland ponds, impressively high sand dunes, wetlands, a lagoon, and indigenous oak savanna. The park is located within the Miller Beach community. Miller Beach was once an independent municipality. However, in 1918 shortly before the establishment of Marquette Park, the Town of Miller was forcibly annexed into the municipal boundaries of Gary, Indiana. The park includes the Octave Chanute museum, registered as a National Landmark of Soaring. ()

Elevation: 600 ft a.s.l.Coordinates: 41°37'12"N, 87°15'12"W

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Northeast Gary (Miller)Gary United States

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Marquette Park – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: City Methodist Church, Palace Theater, Long Lake, Ogden Dunes Beach.

4.6 miW
Church
City Methodist Church, Gary
117 min walk • The City Methodist Church, latterly known as City United Methodist Church is a disused church in Gary, Indiana. Once the largest Methodist church in the Midwest, it ceased as a place of worship in 1975 after a relatively brief life of just over 50 years.
4.6 miW
Cinema, Palace
Palace Theater, Gary
117 min walk • The Palace Theater is a 1925 movie theater, now closed, located at 791 Broadway in Gary, Indiana, in the city's Emerson neighborhood. It was designed by the prominent movie palace architect John Eberson.
2.2 miE
Lake, Natural attraction, Nature
Long Lake, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore
56 min walk • Long Lake is a large interdunal wetland in the Indiana Dunes region of Northwest Indiana. It was originally approximately 8 miles in length, but has been shortened due to development and drainage.
3.1 miE
41°37'43"N • 87°11'37"W
Ogden Dunes Beach, Portage
80 min walk • Beach, Park, Outdoor activities
1.2 miSW
Natural attraction, Nature, Sand dune
Miller Woods, Gary
32 min walk • Miller Woods is the far western unit of Indiana Dunes National Park in the lakefront community of Miller Beach, Indiana. Miller Woods is home to the federally endangered Karner Blue butterfly and the federally threatened Pitcher's thistle. Miller Woods is also the only part of the National Park that also adjoins the Grand Calumet River.
1.4 miS
City hall
Miller Town Hall, Gary
36 min walk • The Miller Town Hall is a two-story brick building in the Miller Beach community in Gary, Indiana, in the United States. It was constructed to serve as the administrative building for the town of Miller, incorporated in 1907, and was used for that purpose until Miller's annexation into Gary in 1918.
~930 ftW
Museum, History museum, Science museum
Gary Bathing Beach Aquatorium, Gary
5 min walk • Gary Bathing Beach Aquatorium, formerly known as Lakefront Park Bathhouse and also known as Chanute Aquatorium, is located at One Marquette Drive at Miller Beach in Marquette Park, Gary, Indiana. The aquatorium was designed by George Washington Maher and constructed in 1921.
4 miSE
41°35'29"N • 87°11'9"W
Woodland Park, Portage
103 min walk • Park
4.3 miW
Museum, History museum
Gary Land Company Building, Gary
109 min walk • Gary Land Company Building, also known as Gary's First Town Hall, is a historic building located at Gary, Indiana.
3.2 miS
Locality
Lake Station
82 min walk • For those interested in history and culture, Lake Station has several attractions to explore. The city is home to the Lake Station Historical Society Museum, which showcases the rich heritage of the region through exhibits and artifacts.
5.1 miSW
Library
Louis J. Bailey Branch Library, Gary
129 min walk • The Louis J. Bailey Branch Library is a historic Carnegie library building located at Gary, Indiana. It was built in 1918, and is a one-story, Colonial Revival style brick building on a raised basement.