Open-air education for all ages inside Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore It's a sunny winter day at Dunes Learning Center, and program participants are giggling as they try to collect enough "food" tokens to make it through winter before being caught...
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Walk in the Footsteps of History
On Saturday, August 3, 2013, Dunes Learning Center and the National Park Service will provide visitors with an opportunity to walk in the footsteps of a historic expedition that took place 100 years ago. From July 1913 to September 1913, an...
Veterans, Citizens Raise Funds to Send Military Kids to Camp
With barely a month left until the first day of camp, Indiana Operation: Military Kids has raised $3,000 of the $22,000 needed to provide 63 children with a week of adventure, companionship and respite. A shared initiative of the U.S. Army Child,...
Art in the National Park at Get Outdoors Day Event
On Saturday, June 8th, locations around the country will celebrate National Get Outdoors Day with opportunities for families to enjoy active outdoor fun and explore their public lands. Activities like hiking and bird watching might be expected, but...
Camp for Military Kids Revived
A summer camp for children of military families that was nearly canceled this year because it lost federal funding has been revived through a fundraising campaign of the camp operators. For the third consecutive year, Indiana Operation: Military Kids...
Free Event Offers Familes a Chance to Get Outdoors
Dunes Learning Center will offer families an exciting day of outdoor fun at no cost in celebration of National Get Outdoors Day on June 8. Trail hikes, river exploration, kayak demonstrations, camp crafts and lunch on the lawn will be supplemented by...
Bird Series by Local Artist Landing at Dunes Learning Center
A series of artworks depicting native perching birds by artist Melissa Washburn will be landing at Dunes Learning Center just in time for the Spring migration—and Dunes Learning Center’s National Get Outdoors Day Open House and Picnic on...
Kids Have All the Fun: Summer Camp in the National Park
Bog stomping, bug hunting, beach combing and night hiking inside the National Lakeshore, Dunes Discovery Camp is truly a summer camp like no other. Standing on the grounds of the former U.S. Steel Good Fellow Club Youth Camp, Dunes Learning Center's...
Project Learning Tree: Celebrate Arbor Day with a Day of Learning
Celebrate Arbor Day and try out a wide variety of hands-on, interdisciplinary activities that teach about the environment using forests and trees as a window to learning. Each participant who completes the full six-hour workshop will receive a newly...
Benson Picked as New Dunes Learning Center Executive Director
The Dunes Learning Center Board of Directors is pleased to announce their unanimous decision to appoint Geof Benson as Executive Director effective February 19th. Benson's executive leadership and professional management experience spans several...