Sleeping Bear Dunes

Nearly 300 dead birds were recently found on the beaches of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. Park staff say they have an idea as to how the birds day and are urging people who visit the beaches to take certain precautions. There are also actions park officials want people to take to help protect the birds.

It's a sad, but beautiful Ojibwe Legend.

WHY do people enjoy this place so much?

The National Parks Service brings back public stargazing nights at the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore with their Star Party series in 2023.

Dune researchers Kevin McKeehan and Alan Arbogast are trying to determine why increasing vegetation is taking hold of Michigan's sand dunes and its lasting effects.

Native to Asia, the hemlock woolly adelgid is a threat to over 170 million hemlock trees in Michigan.

Video after video shows people struggling to climb the dunes at Sleeping Bear Dunes. But, why would anyone want to do that?

Leave without a trace.

It's no secret to Michiganders that our beaches are awesome, but it's still cool to see them nationally recognized. Not one, but two Michigan beaches placed in a national ranking of the best freshwater beaches -- and one even nabbed the top spot!

Finding prehistoric human bones is most likely one of the rarer finds you'll make in Michigan apart from the Woolley Mammoth or maybe the Giant Beaver. Sadly, No dinosaurs have ever been discovered in Michigan