Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Empire, Michigan We’ve already been to several parks that focus on sand dunes, and each one has a unique twist. White Sands, in New Mexico, is made up of small grains of gypsum giving it the white color and keeping it from getting hot even in triple digit temperatures. Great Sand Dunes, in Colorado, has huge sand dunes nestled into the corner of a Rocky Mountain. Indiana Dunes, at the southern tip of Lake Michigan, serves as special place for the urban citizens of Chicago, Gary, and other industrial cities of the area. Here at Sleeping Bear Dunes, far from mountains and big cities, the dunes are unique because of how and where they were created - on the tops of glacial moraines. When the last glaciers began their retreat, 12,000
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