Moon Dune News Today

Thousands of white polystyrene (also known as Styrofoam) balls, each the size of a fish egg, was the last thing Alison Toy and her husband expected to see blanketing the beach at Moon Dune on Tahoe’s north shore during an evening walk.

MICHIGAN CITY — Mount Baldy has a voracious appetite. The dune that routinely swallows mature trees is now gobbling up the exit to the parking lot. The sand piled up on the exit road could be moved with a dump truck and a backhoe, but that would be a losing battle, Indiana Dunes National Park spokesman Bruce Rowe said. Instead, park officials are blocking off that road and turning the parking lot into a two-way lot. On Thursday, signs marking the parking lot as a one-way route remained in ...

MICHIGAN CITY — Mount Baldy has a voracious appetite. The dune that routinely swallows mature trees is now gobbling up the exit to the parking lot. The sand piled up on the exit road could be moved with a dump truck and a backhoe, but that would be a losing battle, Indiana Dunes National Park spokesman Bruce Rowe said. Instead, park officials are blocking off that road and turning the parking lot into a two-way lot. On Thursday, signs marking the parking lot as a one-way route remained in ...

The part of Mount Baldy that collapsed in 2013 is seen near two wooden snow fences in the distance, as viewed from a ranger-led hike from the dunes western edge in the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore in 2017. The dune is now spreading and gobbling up the exit to the parking lot. Tribune File Photo/JOSEPH DITS