Monday, September 03, 2007

Silver Lake Sand Dunes

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The Silver Lake Sand Dunes. If you're from mid-Michigan, chances are you've visited Silver Lake. It's entire west side is dunes. These dunes cover about 1.5 miles to Lake Michigan.

The dunes are divided into three parts. The north part is for the dune buggies. You need a state park vehicle sticker, and a vehicle that will go up in sand. This picture is of the north side. On both the left and right ridges you can see specks that are actually vehicles lined up ready to take the plunge down the dunes.

The middle section is for hikers. The southern section is leased by Mac Woods dune scooters, the people who took us on our dune ride.

Click through for larger size (you can tell the ants are vehicles) or to see pics from the dune ride.

2 comments:

Diane and Jack said...

I believe it is the middle section where we went once, only had a 1/2 day but it was beautiful.

just as the images. ;)

Shirl said...

thanks, Diane!

It's a great place, but man, has it sure gotten congested!