Stand on the beach at Indiana Dunes on a clear day and Chicago is sitting on the horizon across the water. Nobody expects that from Indiana.
Indiana With Kids Family Travel Guide
“There are two Indiana Dunes parks, right next to each other, and neither one takes the other’s pass.”
Why families hire me for Indiana
Indiana gets driven through. That is its whole problem, and it is also the opportunity, because the people who stop have the place more or less to themselves.
I have planned and priced more than three hundred trips and Indiana is the one that surprises families who give it a week. It has a Lake Michigan shoreline with real dunes and a national park on it, a city that is one of the easiest in America with children, Amish country in the north, hills and caves in the south, and a lot of very good cheap food in between.
The thing I sort out first is the dunes, because there are two parks there with almost the same name sitting next to each other, each with its own gate and its own fee, and the passes do not cross over. Families turn up with the wrong one every summer.
The second thing is Indianapolis, which is very good with kids and which people write off as a racetrack. The children’s museum there is on another scale from the usual, the city centre is compact and walkable, and a living history farm half an hour north does the colonial thing better than most.
I taught social studies for eight years and Indiana is a good place to teach from. The Ohio River towns in the south were crossing points on the Underground Railroad. New Harmony was a nineteenth century utopian experiment that you can still walk through. The Amish settlements in the north are not a museum, they are people living a particular way now.
What I do is work out which half of the state you want, because the north and the south are three hours apart and they are completely different trips.
Beyond the Bookshelf
A shelf before you go, and the one film every Indiana person will expect your children to have seen.
Watch Hoosiers. It is about a small town basketball team and it is the closest thing the state has to a founding myth. Basketball here is not a sport, it is the weather.
For younger children, read about dunes and how they move. Indiana Dunes has living dunes that migrate, and a child who knows that will spend the whole beach day watching the sand instead of just sitting on it.
For middle graders, the Underground Railroad through southern Indiana is the story to tell. Levi Coffin’s house in Fountain City sheltered people crossing north from Kentucky, and standing in it means more than any lesson.
For teenagers, read about the Amish before you go to Shipshewana. The difference between Amish and Mennonite, and why the buggies and the clothing look the way they do, turns a drive past farms into something they are actually thinking about.
And if anyone in your family cares about cars, watch anything on the Indy 500. It is the biggest single day sporting event in the world by attendance and the track holds an astonishing number of people.
Why Indiana works with kids
Indiana works with children because it is cheap, it is close together, and the good things are indoors and outdoors in roughly equal measure.
That last part matters more than people think. A week where the weather can go wrong needs a plan B that is not a shopping mall, and Indianapolis alone has several.
The distances are also small. Indianapolis sits in the middle and almost everything in the state is within three hours of it, most of it within two.
A beach you did not expect. Fifteen miles of Lake Michigan shoreline with real dunes, a national park on it, and Chicago visible across the water on a clear day.
A city that is easy. Indianapolis has a compact walkable centre, a canal you can paddle, a children’s museum on a serious scale and a zoo, all within a few minutes of each other.
Caves in the south. Several show caves within an hour of each other, including one with an underground river you ride a boat along.
Hills and fall colour. Brown County in October is one of the better autumn drives in the Midwest and the state park there is large and quiet.
Everything is close. Indianapolis to the dunes is about two and a half hours. To Brown County, an hour. To Amish country, two and a half. You can do a lot from one base.
Indiana Place by Place
Nine places that cover almost every Indiana trip. Indianapolis is the middle, and the rest sit at the top and bottom of the state.
Indianapolis
Indiana Dunes
Brown County
Bloomington
Shipshewana
French Lick
Columbus
Madison
Marengo
Three states stacked on top of each other
Indiana is not one place and the locals will tell you so before you ask.
The north is industrial and Great Lakes. Gary, Hammond and the steel mills sit right beside the dunes, and Chicago is close enough that a lot of the northwest corner runs on Chicago time rather than Indiana time. It really does. The state has two time zones.
The middle is flat farmland and Indianapolis, which is the capital, the biggest city and the part most visitors see.
The south is hills, caves, limestone quarries and Ohio River towns. It looks and feels like Kentucky across the water, which is not an accident, because a lot of the people came from there.
Running under all of it is basketball. Small towns built gyms bigger than their schools. The state high school tournament had no size divisions for most of a century, so a tiny school could play a big one, and that is the story Hoosiers tells.
And in the north, the Amish and Mennonite settlements around Shipshewana and Nappanee are among the largest in the country. The buggies on the road are transport, not a display. Slow down, pass wide, and do not photograph people without asking.
The buggies around Shipshewana are how people get to work and to church. There are buggy lanes on the shoulder of some roads. Pass wide and slowly.
Five things to eat in Indiana
Indiana food is Midwestern farm food with two things that belong to the state and one sandwich that will make your children laugh out loud when it arrives.
The breaded pork tenderloin is the one. A pounded flat pork loin, breaded and fried, served on a hamburger bun that it overhangs by several inches on every side. It is a running joke and a point of pride and every diner has one.
The other is sugar cream pie, which is the official state pie. Cream, sugar, butter and flour in a crust, no eggs, originally made in winter by Shaker and Quaker families who had none. It tastes much better than that description suggests.
Breaded pork tenderloin Pounded thin, breaded, fried, and hanging off all sides of the bun. Order one and watch a child’s face.
Sugar cream pie The official state pie. Cream, sugar and butter in a crust, no eggs, and a dusting of nutmeg on top.
Persimmon pudding A dark, dense autumn pudding from the wild persimmons of southern Indiana. There is a festival for it in Mitchell every September.
Indiana popcorn Indiana and Nebraska grow most of the popcorn in the country, and Orville Redenbacher built his company in Valparaiso. Buy a bag of local kernels and pop them at the rental.
Indiana sweet corn In August, from a roadside stand, cooked that evening. Worth planning a stop for.
In the north, a lot of Amish owned restaurants serve fried chicken and noodles family style at long tables with the bowls passed around, which is enormous and very cheap. A practical note for the north. A lot of Amish owned restaurants and shops in and around Shipshewana are closed on Sundays, and some close early in the week too. Check the day before you drive there, because a Sunday in Amish country with everything shut is a long afternoon.
Two parks called Indiana Dunes, and neither pass works at the other
This is the one that catches families out, and it is very simple once somebody explains it.
There are two separate parks on that stretch of Lake Michigan shoreline. Indiana Dunes National Park is run by the National Park Service. Indiana Dunes State Park is owned by the state of Indiana and sits in the middle of it. They are next door to each other and the names are almost identical.
The national park charges twenty five dollars per private vehicle for a pass valid seven days, twenty for a motorcycle, and fifteen per person for anyone sixteen and over arriving on foot, by bicycle or by boat, with under sixteens free when they are not in a vehicle. The America the Beautiful pass is accepted.
The national park annual pass is forty five dollars and the page says plainly that it only works at the national park and is not accepted at the state park.
The state park charges its own separate fees, and Indiana State Park passes are not accepted at the national park either. Neither side honors the other.
One more thing worth knowing. Simply passing through on a road, a bike trail or by water needs no fee at all. You pay when you stop to walk a trail, use the beach or use the facilities.
The practical answer for most families is this. The state park has the lifeguarded swimming beach, the pavilion and the three steep dune trail that everyone talks about. The national park has the quieter beaches, the bird habitat and most of the trail mileage. If you want one day of proper beach, pay the state park. If you want several days of walking, buy the national park pass. If you want both, you are paying twice and that is just how it is.
Getting there, and the time zone problem
Indianapolis International is the obvious airport. It is consistently rated one of the better ones in the country, it is about twenty minutes from downtown, and it puts you in the middle of the state.
Chicago is the other way in, particularly for the dunes, which are under an hour from the Illinois line and about ninety minutes from downtown Chicago. If you are combining the two, fly into Chicago.
Louisville is about two hours from southern Indiana and worth checking if the south is the trip.
Then the time zones. Most of Indiana is on Eastern time. A handful of counties in the northwest corner, around Gary and the dunes, and a few in the southwest near Evansville, are on Central time. That means driving from Indianapolis to the dunes can gain you an hour, and driving back loses it. Check what your phone is doing before you book a dinner.
You need a car for everything except central Indianapolis.
Indianapolis International, IND. Twenty minutes from downtown, central to the whole state, and an easy airport to use with children.
Chicago, ORD or MDW. Ninety minutes to the dunes. The right choice if you are doing both.
Louisville, SDF. About two hours from the southern caves and the Ohio River towns.
Two time zones. Most of the state is Eastern. The northwest corner around the dunes, and part of the southwest, are Central. Your phone will change without telling you.
Indianapolis is central. Almost everything in the state is within three hours of it, and most of it within two.
The middle of the state is corn and soybeans and very straight roads, which makes the drives fast and the hills in the south a genuine surprise when they arrive.
Indianapolis, and what to do with three days
Indianapolis is the best value city in the Midwest for a family and I will argue that with anyone.
The children’s museum is the headline. It runs over several floors, it has a dinosaur gallery with sauropods coming through the wall of the building so you see them from the street, and it has a proper sports section outside. It is not a morning. It is a day, and plan on the children not wanting to leave.
Downtown is compact and walkable. There is a canal through the middle of it with pedal boats on it, a war memorial district, and the state museum and the zoo both close by. The zoo has a dolphin dome and an orangutan centre.
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway is on the west side and you can go into the museum and take a bus lap of the track on most days when there is no racing. Even children who do not care about cars like the bus lap.
Half an hour north is Conner Prairie, which is a living history site with staff in character, a working farm, and a tethered balloon ride. It is one of the better ones in the country.
Three days fills easily. Two is enough if you pick the museum and one other thing.
The Indy 500 runs on the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend, with practice, qualifying and Carb Day across the two weeks before it. Rooms across the whole metro go early and prices go with them. With small children the race itself is a very long, very loud day, and the museum and track tour out of season give you most of it for almost nothing.
Can you do Indiana without a car?
Indianapolis, yes. Everything else, no.
Downtown Indianapolis works well on foot. The children’s museum, the zoo, the state museum, the canal and the war memorials are all within about twenty five minutes walking of each other or a short ride. There is a bus rapid transit line through the middle of the city.
The dunes are the other exception, and a good one. The South Shore Line commuter train runs from Chicago right along the lakeshore with stops at Dune Park and Beverly Shores, so you can do Indiana Dunes as a day trip from Chicago with no car at all. That is unusual for an American national park and worth knowing.
Everywhere else, Brown County, French Lick, the caves, Amish country, the river towns, needs a car and there is no workaround.
When to go
Late May through September for the dunes, and October for the south.
Summer is the beach season and the lake does not warm up until well into June. July and August are hot and humid inland and noticeably more comfortable on the shoreline, which is one of the reasons the dunes get busy.
September is the sweet spot. The lake is still warm enough, the crowds go after Labor Day, and the sweet corn and persimmons are both in.
October is the south. Brown County is one of the better fall colour destinations in the Midwest and it is busy at weekends, so go midweek if you can.
Spring is pleasant and quiet, with the caves at a constant temperature year round and the state parks just opening up properly.
Winter is cold and the lake effect snow in the northwest corner is real. Indianapolis carries on as normal and the museums are at their best when it is miserable outside.
And know where Memorial Day weekend falls, because the Indy 500 takes over the metro area and a lot of the state.
How Many Days & First-Trip Routing
How many days do we need in Indiana? Five nights is a good first trip. Three in Indianapolis for the museums, the speedway and Conner Prairie, then two at the dunes for the beach and the trails.
Three nights is Indianapolis and one day trip, which is a decent city break and misses the rest of the state.
Seven nights lets you add the south, which almost nobody visits. Brown County, the caves, French Lick and an Ohio River town like Madison.
Indiana also works very well as three or four nights bolted onto a Chicago trip, because the dunes are ninety minutes away and reachable by commuter train.
How to Route a Indiana Week
The routing rule is that Indianapolis is the hub and the dunes are a separate base. Do not try to do the shoreline as a day trip from Indianapolis, because it is two and a half hours each way and you lose the day.
Base one, Indianapolis. Three nights. The children’s museum, the zoo, the canal, the speedway and Conner Prairie are all inside forty minutes.
Base two, the dunes. Two nights at Chesterton, Michigan City or Porter. Beach, trails and the South Shore Line if you want a day in Chicago without driving.
Buy the right dune pass. State park for the lifeguarded beach and the three dune challenge. National park for the trails and the quieter sand. Neither pass works at the other.
Add the south as a third base. Brown County or Bloomington for two nights, with a cave and French Lick as day trips.
Watch the time zone on the way north. The dunes are on Central time and most of the state is not. You gain an hour going up and lose it coming back.
Amish country is a day, not a stop. Shipshewana is about two and a half hours from Indianapolis and most of it is shut on Sundays.
Check Memorial Day weekend. If the Indy 500 is in your window and you are not going to it, move the week.
Where these places are
A map of every place named on this page, so you can see how close together they really are.
Regions at a Glance
The lakeshore
Indiana Dunes, Michigan City and Chesterton. Fifteen miles of Lake Michigan beach, two parks with the same name, and Chicago across the water.
Amish country
Shipshewana, Nappanee and Middlebury. Buggies, family style restaurants, a very large flea market and almost everything closed on Sunday.
Central Indiana
Indianapolis, Carmel and Conner Prairie. The museums, the speedway and the easiest driving in the state.
The hills
Brown County, Bloomington and Nashville, Indiana. Fall colour, a large state park, and a university town with good food.
The caves
Marengo, Bluespring and the limestone country near Corydon. Show caves, an underground river and a constant temperature all year.
The Ohio River
Madison, New Albany and New Harmony. Nineteenth century river towns, Underground Railroad history and a utopian settlement you can walk through.
Southern Indiana is limestone the whole way down, which is why the quarries are there and why there are so many caves. One of them has an underground river you ride a boat on.
Must See and Do
Indiana Dunes National Park. Twenty five dollars per vehicle for seven days, or fifteen per person on foot. The annual pass is forty five and works only here, not at the state park next door.
Indiana Dunes State Park. Separate fees, separate passes, and the lifeguarded beach plus the three dune trail that everyone talks about.
The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis. Several floors, a dinosaur gallery you can see from the street, and a sports complex outside. A whole day.
Conner Prairie, Fishers. Living history with staff in character, a working farm and a tethered balloon. Half an hour north of Indianapolis.
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum. Plus a bus lap of the actual track on most non race days. Even non car children like the lap.
Brown County State Park. Large, wooded and hilly, with a lodge inside it. The best fall colour in the state.
A southern Indiana show cave. Several within an hour of each other near Marengo and Bedford, including one with a boat ride on an underground river.
West Baden Springs Hotel, French Lick. A domed atrium that was called the eighth wonder of the world when it was built. You can walk in and look even without staying.
Shipshewana. Amish country, family style restaurants, and one of the largest flea markets in the Midwest. Closed Sundays.
Columbus, Indiana. A small industrial town that spent sixty years commissioning serious modern architecture. Strange, free to walk around and worth an afternoon.
Doing Indiana With Children
Indiana is one of the easier states with children. The main things to get right are the dune passes and the Sunday closures in the north.
Work out which dune park you want before you drive there. Two parks, two gates, two fee systems, and neither pass works at the other. The state park has the lifeguarded beach.
The lake is cold until late June. Lake Michigan warms slowly. In early June it is a paddling lake rather than a swimming one.
A whole day for the children’s museum. Not a morning. Buy the ticket ahead and plan nothing after it.
Amish country is shut on Sundays. Most Amish owned shops and restaurants close, and some close another weekday too. Check before you drive two and a half hours.
Pass buggies slowly and wide. They are transport and there are children in them. Do not photograph Amish people without asking.
The caves are the same temperature all year. Which makes them the plan for a hot July afternoon and a cold layer in any season. Take a jacket.
Mind the time zone. The dunes are Central and most of the state is Eastern. Your phone changes quietly and dinner reservations suffer.
Sand gets everywhere. Three dune trails and a beach day means a lot of sand in the car. A cheap brush and a bag for wet things earns its keep.
Who Indiana Suits, and Who Should Skip It
Indiana suits families who want a cheap, easy week with a beach, a city and some countryside, and who do not need anything to be famous.
It suits children roughly four to twelve, because Indianapolis is built for that age range and the dunes are a beach with hills to run up.
It suits anyone adding a few days to a Chicago trip. The dunes are ninety minutes away and reachable by train.
It suits families on a budget. Lodging, food and attractions here all cost noticeably less than the neighbouring states.
It does not suit anyone looking for dramatic landscape. The dunes and the southern hills are lovely and neither will astonish you.
And it does not suit a family who wants everything in one place. The north and the south are three hours apart and the middle is a different kind of trip again.
Worth the Money in Indiana
The national park annual pass, if you are staying a week. Forty five dollars against twenty five for seven days. It only pays off if you are coming back within the year, so most families want the seven day one.
A day at the state park beach. Separate fee and worth it if swimming is the point. Lifeguards, a pavilion and the dune climb.
The children’s museum ticket. The single best value attraction in the state for a family and the one thing I would not skip.
The track bus lap at the Speedway. A few dollars on top of the museum and the bit everyone remembers.
Skip the Indy 500 with small children. Long, loud, hot and expensive. The museum and the lap out of season give you the feeling for a fraction of it.
Skip the outlet malls. There are several and they will eat a day you could spend at the dunes.
Conner Prairie, if your children like dressing up. More than a normal museum and worth it. The balloon ride costs extra and is weather dependent.
The Speedway seats a number of people that does not sound real until you stand in it. On a non race day you can take a bus around the track.
Things That Surprise First Timers
There are two Indiana Dunes parks. One national, one state, side by side, almost the same name, and neither pass works at the other.
You can see Chicago from the beach. On a clear day the skyline sits on the horizon across the lake, which nobody expects from Indiana.
You can get to the dunes by train. The South Shore Line runs from Chicago along the lakeshore. A national park reachable by commuter rail is rare.
Indiana has two time zones. Most of it is Eastern. The northwest corner around the dunes is Central, and so is part of the southwest.
The south has hills and caves. People picture flat corn and then drive into Brown County in October and have to recalculate.
Amish country closes on Sunday. Most of it, and some of it on another weekday too.
The pork tenderloin hangs off the bun. By inches, on every side, and it is meant to.
Sugar cream pie has no eggs in it. It was made in winter when there were none, and it is the official state pie.
Where I Would Start
If you are starting from nothing, I would do this.
Five nights in September. Three in Indianapolis, with a whole day at the children’s museum, a day for the zoo and the canal, and a morning at the Speedway with the bus lap.
Then two and a half hours north to the dunes for two nights. One day at the state park beach with the lifeguards, one day on the national park trails. Buy the right pass for each.
If you have two more days, go south instead of north and do Brown County and a cave.
And if you are already going to Chicago, do the dunes from there on the South Shore Line and skip the car entirely for that part.
Indiana by the numbers
Facts to know before you go
Indiana is not one kind of trip
Indiana reads as one flat state on a map and it is at least four trips.
The city trip
Indianapolis and Conner Prairie. Three or four nights, museums, a zoo, a canal and a racetrack. Works in any weather.
The beach trip
Indiana Dunes, two parks and fifteen miles of Lake Michigan. Two or three nights, best from late June to September.
The hills and caves trip
Brown County, Bloomington, French Lick and the show caves. Three or four nights and the best one in October.
The Amish country trip
Shipshewana, Nappanee and Middlebury. Two nights, family style food, buggies, and not on a Sunday.
What families come to Indiana for
A Lake Michigan beach. Fifteen miles of it, with real dunes and Chicago on the horizon.
A city that is easy and cheap. Indianapolis with children is one of the better value weeks in America.
Caves at a constant temperature. Several in the south within an hour of each other, one with a boat ride underground.
Fall colour in the hills. Brown County in October, quieter than the famous places and an hour from Indianapolis.
A living history farm done properly. Conner Prairie, with staff in character and a balloon ride.
Food that costs nothing. A pork tenderloin that hangs off the bun, family style Amish chicken, and sweet corn from a stand in August.
A national park you can reach by train. The South Shore Line from Chicago, straight along the lakeshore.
Only in Indiana
Two parks, one name
The dune pass problem
Indiana Dunes National Park and Indiana Dunes State Park sit side by side on the same shoreline with nearly the same name. Each has its own gate and its own fee, and the national park says plainly that its annual pass is not accepted at the state park. State passes do not work at the national park either.
Hangs off the bun
The breaded pork tenderloin
A pork loin pounded flat, breaded and fried, served on a standard hamburger bun that it overhangs by several inches on every side. It is on every diner menu in the state and it is supposed to look like that.
Runs down the street
The South Shore Line
The commuter train from Chicago to South Bend runs down the middle of a city street in Michigan City, past houses and parked cars, with the crossing gates on the sidewalk. It is the last electric interurban line left in the country and you can ride it to the dunes.
Combine It With
Chicago is ninety minutes from the dunes and reachable by commuter train. The most natural pairing in the Midwest.
Louisville is straight across the Ohio from southern Indiana. Mammoth Cave is two and a half hours further.
East for Cincinnati and Cedar Point. Easy driving and a very different week.
North around the lake for more shoreline and the Upper Peninsula if you have the days.
Tell me who is coming, and when.
Tell me who is coming, how old they are, and when you can travel, and I will tell you which half of the state to do and which dune pass to buy. Indiana is a very cheap, very easy week when the bases are right.
Indiana, Answered
The ones that come up in almost every planning call. If yours is not here, ask me.
What is the difference between Indiana Dunes National Park and Indiana Dunes State Park?
They are two separate parks on the same Lake Michigan shoreline, side by side, with almost the same name. The national park is run by the National Park Service and the state park is owned by Indiana. Each charges its own fees, and neither accepts the other’s passes. The state park has the lifeguarded swimming beach and the three dune trail; the national park has most of the trail mileage and the quieter beaches.
How much does Indiana Dunes National Park cost?
Twenty five dollars per private vehicle for a pass valid seven days, twenty for a motorcycle, and fifteen per person aged sixteen and over arriving on foot, by bicycle or by boat. Under sixteens entering without a vehicle are free. The annual pass is forty five dollars and works only at the national park. The America the Beautiful pass is accepted.
Do you need a pass just to drive through Indiana Dunes?
No. Passing through on a road, a bike trail or by water needs no fee. You pay when you stop to walk a trail, use the beach or use the facilities.
Can you visit Indiana Dunes without a car?
Yes. The South Shore Line commuter train runs from Chicago along the lakeshore with stops near the park, which makes it one of the few American national parks you can reach on a commuter train. Everywhere else in Indiana needs a car.
How many days do you need in Indiana?
Five nights for a good first trip: three in Indianapolis and two at the dunes. Three nights is a city break. Seven lets you add the southern hills and caves, which almost no visitor sees.
Is Indianapolis good with kids?
Very. The children’s museum is a full day on its own, the zoo and the state museum are close by, the downtown is compact and walkable, and Conner Prairie living history farm is half an hour north. It is also noticeably cheaper than most American cities.
Does Indiana have two time zones?
Yes. Most of the state is on Eastern time, but the northwest corner around Gary and the dunes is on Central time, as is part of the southwest near Evansville. Driving north to the dunes gains you an hour and coming back loses it.
When is the Indy 500 and should we avoid it?
It runs on the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend, with practice and qualifying over the two weeks before. Rooms across the metro area are booked early and priced accordingly. With young children the race is a long, loud, hot day, and the Speedway museum and track bus lap out of season give you most of the experience for very little.
What should we eat in Indiana?
A breaded pork tenderloin sandwich, a slice of sugar cream pie, persimmon pudding in autumn, family style fried chicken and noodles in Amish country, and sweet corn from a roadside stand in August.
Is Shipshewana open on Sundays?
Mostly not. A lot of Amish owned shops and restaurants there close on Sunday and some close another weekday as well. Check before you drive, because it is about two and a half hours from Indianapolis.
Keep exploring from Indiana
Photo credits
Lake Michigan seen from the dunes in Indiana a by TripOfALifestyle.com (CC BY 4.0) · canal walk and downtown skyline in Indianapoli by Qsthomson (CC BY-SA 3.0) · wide sand beach at Indiana Dunes National Park by Matthew Dillon from Hollywood, CA, USA (CC BY 2.0) · Golden autumn trees in Brown County State Park by Diego Delso (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Sample Gates at Indiana University in Blooming by IT Communications Office (CC BY 2.0) · domed atrium of the West Baden Springs Hotel i by Sarah Wilkerson Poole from Bedford, USA (CC BY 2.0) · North Christian Church, a modernist building i by Holly Higgins (CC BY 2.0) · breaded pork tenderloin sandwich served with f by jeffreyw (CC BY 2.0) · slice of Indiana sugar cream pie by Missvain (CC BY 4.0) · pan of dark baked persimmon pudding by Missvain (CC BY 4.0) · Fresh ears of sweet corn by HaJunkiyada (CC BY-SA 4.0) · flat Indiana corn field under a big summer sky by Missvain (CC BY 4.0) · underground river boat tour at Bluespring Cave by Jim Vajda (CC BY 2.0) · pagoda and front straight at the Indianapolis by rbnlsn (CC BY 2.0) · beach below Mount Baldy at Indiana Dunes Natio by rboed* (CC BY 2.0) · breaded pork tenderloin hanging well over the by Glane23 (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Strahl Lake surrounded by autumn woods in Brow by Diego Delso (CC BY-SA 3.0). All via Wikimedia Commons. Remaining photographs on this page are public domain.
