The Dunes of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

This is our 133^rd national park or monument that we’ve visited. First thing we saw after the visitor center were a couple of deer crossing the street. There were several sightings of bear near the campground, but we never saw them.

While there are a lot of places to visit in the park, the thing- to-do is called the Dune Climb. Everyone goes out to the section with the tallest dunes and climbs them.

If you are hard-core, you hike 3.5 miles climbing 9 different dunes to get to Lake Michigan. We weren’t that hard-core since John was tired from the drive and we just wanted to get to the campground to set up. But we climbed a couple of dunes.

There was a crew filming while we were there. I think it was a local group.

I walked out to Lake Michigan from the campground. The part I hated was that they called it a Beginner's Trail. Walking very far through sand does not feel like “beginner”.