For generations, the Indiana Dunes, the closest national park to Chicago, has captivated residents, including one Alice Gray. Here’s the story of how she became known as “Diana of the Dunes.” ...

Gray became “Diana of the Dunes”, a spectral presence at the Indiana Dunes. Today “Diana” is recognized through Diana’s Dare, a hiking challenge created by the National Parks Service.

Alice Gray at the Indiana Dunes where she lived for over nine years starting in 1915. In an interview with the Tribune in 1916 she had this to say: "I was tired of working under the conditions and ...

DUNES DAMES: Our town's most recent author, Janet Zenke Edwards, got the first shipment of her book delivered this week to her family's summer cottage on Lake Michigan in the ...

The Prairie Club takes a pilgrimage on Memorial Day 1909 to the Indiana Dunes during one of its Saturday afternoon walking trips. The Prairie Club was influential in establishing the Dunes as a ...

In 1958, poet Carl Sandburg wrote that the Indiana Dunes “are to the Midwest what the Grand Canyon is to Arizona and Yosemite is to California. They constitute a signature of time and eternity ...