Eating & Sleeping

 

Happy vendor handing food to customers.

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Whether you have come to enjoy the park for only a day, a weekend, or even longer, it’s always good to know where the best services are at to spice up your stay in or around the park. Below you'll find a list of authorized food and beverage vendors who conduct business within the park.

Take your national park adventure to the next level by camping here at Indiana Dunes. Relax, enjoy, and get closer to nature with your choice of 3 reservable camping locations throughout the park. All campsites MUST be reserved beforehand at recreation.gov.

Looking for a place to stay that's a little further away from nature, but still in the park? Try lodging.

If you’d rather find someplace nice to eat or sleep nearby the park, scroll down for more information.

 

Food & Beverage Vendors

• Bieser's Gourmet Kettle Corn, LLC / [phone]
• Ken Dawgs / [phone]
• Kona Ice of the Dunes / [phone]
• Legendary Cheesesteaks LLC / [phone]
• The Lunch Box / [phone]
• Om Resturants, Inc. / [phone]
• Pink Flamingo Cotton Candy Co. / [phone]
• Scoops A'more / [phone]
• The Big Weiner / [phone] (West Beach Concession Vendor)

Disclaimer: This information is intended to provide a list of vendors authorized to do business in the park. The availability of vendors on a particular day is subject to change, without notice. The authorization of vendors to do business in the park should not be taken as an endorsement on behalf of the National Park Service for the products or services offered by authorized operators.

Food & Beverage Vendor Locations

Visit the park's maps page for help with directions to each location.

• Paul H. Douglas Center
• West Beach Parking Lot
• Chellberg Farm
• Porter Beach north parking lot
• Kemil Beach parking lot
• Central Avenue Beach
• Mt. Baldy parking lot
• Dunewood Campground Amphitheater parking
• Park Headquarters
• Locations of interpretive events and festivals

 

Tent at the Dunewood Campground.

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Where to sleep in the park

 

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Photos by Erin Watson

Lodging in the park

Cypress Log Cabin / [phone]

The Cypress Log Cabin, designed by Murray D. Heatherington, was featured at the 1933-34 Century of Progress World’s Fair in Chicago. Built to showcase the durability of cypress wood, it incorporated cypress in nearly every part of the structure.

Disclaimer: This information is intended to provide the location of lodging within the park, which is subleased by an authorized business and should not be taken as an endorsement on behalf of the National Park Service for their services within the park.

 

Tourist establishments

Indiana Dunes National Park is a long community of wilderness that spans three counties and fifteen cities. This fifteen-mile strip of park hugs the southern shore of Lake Michigan and hosts plenty of opportunity to find plenty of nearby lodging or fantastic restaurants. You can narrow down your search for nearby suggested services or establishments by county. The counties listed from west to east are Lake County, Porter County, and La Porte County. Search the tourist links below featuring the Indiana Dunes.

• Lake County: South Shore Convention and Visitor Authority
• Porter County: Indiana Dunes Tourism
• La Porte County: Visit Michigan City La Porte