The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1922-12-02
THE DUNES
HIGHWAY
NOW OPEN
Few Road Gives Is Mile
Ride Through A Virgin
Territory

MICHIGAN CITY, Dec. India
mas picturesque drive extending
from Cary through Michigan CIV
TO che state line OF Michigan form
ing tbs boundary line Of the world
famous dunes provides a new TWEEN
" foot wide concrete roadway Of
aIiuring attractiveness, Following
TO great extent through Indiana
the short route used by riders max
ing the trip on horseback between
Detroit and Chicago hundred
years ago-it traverses a section
which goth century travellers here
tofore could not utilize on account
of the sandy stretches and low
lands through which It runs.
The new Dunes Highway makes
readily accessible the Dunes: It
eliminates nine railroad crossings
and reduces the mileage seven miles
between Gary and Michigan city
as compared with the shortest route
heretofore available,
1t provides a ride OF twenty-five
miles through romantic duneland,
passing many places OF historic re-
cord and localities OF present day
interest Through an ever chang
ing panorama of Irresistible charm
1t passes through a region that is
veritable symphony OF water, sand
flowers and foliage
The Dunes Highway penetrates
through territory which Is almost
the same It was a century ago
It's a trip along side OF the Dunes
of the many different wild flowers
the SOFT blue or the water. the gold
en- yellow of the sun kissed Dunes,
the rich green foliage OF the woods.
all combine in making colorful ef
fects or unsurpassed charm and
beauty. No factory smoke to dark
en- the horizon, no stockyards to
perfume the atmosphere, no dense
Is populated section to destroy
Gods handiwork, just nature with
all OF its appeal
Great spaces; cool spaces. shady
places; small babbling brooks; little
ponds and lakes with cool shadowy
depths; Dunes, high dunes, low
dunes; valleys OF sand sparsely
threaded with timberland or dense
~ covered with virgin forests:
grSen meadowlands; wild flowers in
profusion; the invigcrating atmos-
phere; the refreshing breezes from
Lake Michigan; the absence of ar
tificiaiities; the freedom from con
gestion; just nature; wonderful ma
ture; reached via the Dunes High
way; romance land.
Thirteen miles OF the roadway will
be completed by December 1sr this
year. The other six miles, between
Baileytown and Gary, viii be ready
early next season. The Dunes
Highway Is twenty feet wide with
eight inch base and has been built /
- Withstand the heaviest traffic +,
which may pass across the same.
Historically. beginning at Michi- |
ran City, tho KRUGER Memorial
park is the location in which was |
fought the Revolutionary battle or |
December 5th, 1850, when a small I
force Of Americans. about eighteen |
in number, were d ,feated by force !
cf British and Indians In Kruger /
Memorial park is also located the /
Father Marquette Spring where
Father Marquette encamped on his |
way from the east to Chicago. TIL
Spring is still flowing and the wa
L.. IS very cool and refreshing
Father Marquette used the route of
the present Dunes Highway on his I
trip toward Chicago.
On the outskirts of Michigan City |
the Dunes Highway passes the In
diana state Prison, an institution |
noted throughout the world as |
model one Of its kind and housing
approx imately 1900 inmates.
Leaving thu prison and heading I
west. TO the left Of the roadway |
can be seen the remains Of tho old !
roadbed OF the Buffalo and Mississ- i
ippi railroad. This road was one I
Of the many dreams of the pioneers
connecting up the east with tho
Mississippi valley. Some work was
done on II IN 1850 tut 1t has long
since been abandoned.
Before reaching FurnasSville Il +,
splendid view IS given OF the Dunes, /
showing the Polk Slide, high /
plateau OF sand. through which the I
old Chicago, Detroit stage road
came from the lake shore and then |