Ogden Dunes Beach, Portage

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Ogden Dunes Beach (address: Shore Drive) is a place located in Portage (Indiana state) and belongs to the category of beach, park, outdoor activities.

It is situated at an altitude of 581 feet, and its geographical coordinates are 41°37'43"N latitude and 87°11'37"W longitude.

Among other places and attractions worth visiting in the area are: Long Lake, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore (lake, 34 min walk), Woodland Park (park, 67 min walk), Marquette Park, Gary (park, 80 min walk).

Elevation: 581 ft a.s.l.Coordinates: 41°37'43"N, 87°11'37"W

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Shore DrivePortage United States

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Ogden Dunes Beach – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Joseph Bailly Homestead, Cowles Bog, Long Lake, Marquette Park.

5.2 miE
Natural attraction, Nature, Sand dune
Joseph Bailly Homestead, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore
132 min walk • The Joseph Bailly Homestead, also known as Joseph Bailly Homestead and Cemetery, in Porter, Indiana, is a U.S. National Historic Landmark. The Bailly Homestead is preserved by the National Park Service in Indiana Dunes National Park in Porter, Indiana.
5.3 miE
Protected area
Cowles Bog, Porter
135 min walk • Cowles Bog is a 4,000-year-old wetland complex in Indiana Dunes National Park, near Chesterton, Indiana. It is named for Henry Chandler Cowles who did his pioneering work in ecology and ecological succession here.
1.3 miSW
Lake, Natural attraction, Nature
Long Lake, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore
34 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 miW
Park
Marquette Park, Gary
80 min walk • 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.
5.3 miE
Cemetery
Bailly Cemetery, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore
135 min walk • Bailly Cemetery is a cemetery located at Indiana Dunes National Park in Porter, Indiana, USA. The cemetery is three-quarters of a mile north of the Joseph Bailly Homestead on the edge of a sand ridge. The first recorded burial was Robert, the son of Joseph Bailly, in about 1827.
4.6 miE
Natural attraction, Nature, Sand dune
Mammals of the Indiana Dunes, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore
118 min walk • Thirty-seven species of mammals have been identified at Indiana Dunes National Park. Four other species are thought to inhabit the park, but have not been documented: the northern long-eared myotis, the Indiana bat, the hoary bat, and the southern bog...
4.1 miSW
Natural attraction, Nature, Sand dune
Miller Woods, Gary
106 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.
4 miSW
City hall
Miller Town Hall, Gary
102 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.
3.3 miW
Museum, History museum, Science museum
Gary Bathing Beach Aquatorium, Gary
85 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.
4.6 miE
Natural attraction, Nature, Sand dune
Invertebrates of the Indiana Dunes, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore
118 min walk • Indiana Dunes National Park is a National Park Service unit on the shore of Lake Michigan in Indiana, United States. A BioBlitz took place there on May 15 and 16, 2009. During that time, a list of organisms was compiled which included invertebrates.
2.6 miS
41°35'29"N • 87°11'9"W
Woodland Park, Portage
67 min walk • Park