Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Park

Tuesday Morning we headed to downtown Traverse City to look around and shop. They have a lot of great shops and restaurants all on a few adjoining streets. We then headed to Traverse City Commons. This used to be the Michigan State Insane Asylum. Now, it is being remodeled and has some shops, delis, bars, spas, and apartments. It is still in progress and will be worth seeing the next time we visit Michigan. It is kinda boring right now.
After we left Traverse City, we headed to Sleeping Bear Dunes National Park. It is on the Lake Michigan and full of Sand Dunes and Lakes. It is beautiful scenery.

This is the view from the top of the sand dune. It is straight down to the water.

Sleeping Bear Dunes has this steep sand dune seen in these photos. It is the steepest thing I have ever seen. You can see it in the photos behind us. We saw some people trying to climb back up. They weren't getting very far very fast.

Straight down

3 comments:

The Broeker Family said...

Wow! What great pics.

Krystal said...

That is so beautiful! I am so jealous, you're vacation looked wonderful!

Sills Family said...

Sleeping Bear Dunes is one of my favorite places in Michigan! We took Keelin there when she was a little older than Conner. The views are amazing!!!!