Dune Acres
Dune Acres is a town in Westchester Township, Porter County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. The population was 234 as of the 2020 census. Dune Acres is located in the duneland of the south shore of Lake Michigan.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.
- Type: Village with 225 residents
- Description: town in Porter County, Indiana, United States
- Also known as: “Dune Acres, IN” and “Dune Acres, Indiana”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Indiana Dunes National Park and Cowles Bog.
Indiana Dunes National Park
Photo: Poco a poco, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Indiana Dunes National Park, in the northwestern part of the state, is the only national park in Indiana. It's popular for its big sand dunes and plentiful beaches on Lake Michigan, and for its easily accessible location near Chicago.
Cowles Bog
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Cowles Bog is a 4,000-year-old wetland complex in Indiana Dunes National Park, near Chesterton, Indiana. It is named for Henry Chandler Cowles who did his pioneering work in ecology and ecological succession here.
Bailly Cemetery
Cemetery
Photo: Chris Light, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bailly Cemetery is a cemetery located at Indiana Dunes National Park in Porter, Indiana, US. The cemetery is three-quarters of a mile north of the Joseph Bailly Homestead on the edge of a sand ridge.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Porter and Burns Harbor.
Porter
Porter is an old railroad town just south of the Indiana Dunes National Park in Northwestern Indiana.Burns Harbor
Village
Photo: Kgmnmr, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Burns Harbor is a town in Westchester Township, Porter County, Indiana, United States on the shores of Lake Michigan in Northwest Indiana. It is part of the Chicago metropolitan area. Burns Harbor is situated 3 miles southwest of Dune Acres.
Chesterton
Photo: Pi.1415926535, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Chesterton is a small town in Northwestern Indiana, home to the headquarters of the South Shore Railroad.
Dune Acres
- Categories: town in the United States and locality
- Location: Westchester Township, Porter, Indiana, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.64948° or 41° 38′ 58″ northLongitude
-87.08587° or 87° 5′ 9″ westPopulation
225Elevation
627 feet (191 metres)Open location code
86HJJWX7+QMOpenStreetMap ID
node 153636883OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
4919784Wikidata ID
Q2047917
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Volapük—“Dune Acres” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “دوني أكرس”
- Basque: “Dune Acres”
- Catalan: “Dune Acres”
- Cebuano: “Dune Acres”
- Chechen: “Дюн-Эйкерс”
- Chinese: “Dune Acres”
- Chinese: “杜恩阿克里斯 (印地安納州)”
- Chinese: “杜恩阿克里斯”
- Dutch: “Dune Acres”
- Egyptian Arabic: “دونى اكرس”
- French: “Dune Acres”
- German: “Dune Acres”
- Gilaki: “دیون ایکرز (اينديانا)”
- Gilaki: “دیون ایکرز”
- Haitian: “Dune Acres, Indiana”
- Haitian: “Dune Acres”
- Hebrew: “דון אקרס”
- Hungarian: “Dune Acres”
- Italian: “Dune Acres”
- Ladin: “Dune Acres”
- Mazanderani: “دونی اکرس”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Dune Acres”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dune Acres”
- Norwegian: “Dune Acres”
- Polish: “Dune Acres”
- Portuguese: “Dune Acres”
- Serbian: “Дун Ејкерс”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Dune Acres, Indiana”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Dune Acres”
- Spanish: “Dune Acres”
- Tatar: “Дюн-Эйкерс”
- Ukrainian: “Дюн-Ейкерс”
- Uzbek: “Dune Acres”
- Volapük: “Dune Acres”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Petingill Dune and Clubhouse Blowout.
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