A unique eight-week grief support experience for adults who have experienced life-disrupting loss. It combines weekly hikes on the Sleeping Bear Dunes Heritage Trail with gentle and intentional conversation about loss. We’ll walk a different section of the trail each week, building toward the Dune Climb in week eight. You can learn more about the details
Date: Saturday, March 2, 2024 Time: 8 am - 2 pm Cost: Adults $12 Six and over $6, 5 and under free. Place: The Homestead Resort, CQ - look for the signs All you can eat, Pancakes and maple syrup, sausage, eggs, potatoes, fruit and beverage. The breakfast is sponsored by the Homestead Resort. .All
Join us for our first Log Cabin Day in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore! Step inside five of the six log cabins in the Park on Michigan Log Cabin Day! Preserve Historic Sleeping Bear has repaired most of these historic structures over the years and we want to share these amazing structures and their stories
Friday, August 12 6:30 – 8:30 pm Thoreson Farm Sleeping Bear Stories: Two Lost Tales of the Past A performance of music and dramatization of two historic tales within Sleeping Bear about the first settlers of Port Oneida, the Burfiends, and the lost community of Aral. Performed by Anne-Marie Oomen and Beach Bards and Co.
This date marks the 47th Anniversary of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. Celebrate the National Lakeshore’s birthday with the final Star Party of the summer. This will be a great occasion to observe the night sky, Mars, star clusters, nebulae, and distant galaxies. The location will be at Pierce Stocking Scenic Drive, Stop #3, from
COME RUN FOR THE FARMS and barns at our 8th Annual run/walk fundraiser! Proceeds help preserve over 200 historic buildings and landscapes of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. Choose between the Farmers Flat and Fast 4 mile, Homesteaders Hillier 5K, and Tiller’s 10K! Each course winds through the beautiful scenery of Sleeping Bear Dunes National
Join Park Rangers and astronomers from the Grand Traverse Astronomical Society (GTAS) on Saturday, June 24 at the Dune Climb parking lot. On this date, two events offer you opportunities to focus on the sky. The first event is from 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM, and will allow visitors to safely view our closest star,
Explore, Learn, Protect! Kids of all ages are welcome to come and learn at Junior Ranger 101 on June 24th! Families can take part in fun activities and learn the basics of being a Junior Ranger. Learn about lighthouses, NPS history, animals, and more! Complete all of the activities and earn your official Junior Ranger
Maritime living history 101. Bring the early 1900s to life with the help of park rangers and volunteers at Glen Haven and the Maritime Museum (Located on M-209, 7 miles north of Empire) Saturday May 27, 2017 from 10am to 4pm. You can try out various aspects of village life, watch a blacksmith forge metal, try your
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore will be hosting ranger-led snowshoe hikes every Saturday at 1:00 p.m. from January 7, 2017 through March 11, 2017. Meet at the visitor center at 9922 Front St. Empire, MI. If you don’t have your own, snowshoes will be loaned at no charge. Participants need only purchase the park entrance
Rangers and staff at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore will be presenting short films from a number of National Park Service sites December 17th at 12:00pm. This two day film festival will be the final event in our centennial celebration of the National Park Service. The National Park Service will be finishing out the 2016
On Saturday, September 17, visitors to Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) can become citizen scientists for the day by joining the park’s quest to showcase the biodiversity of the National Lakeshore through a BioBlitz. The BioBlitz is a time for scientists, students, teachers, families, and park visitors to team up to identify as
