Dunewood Campground
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- OpenThe agency lists it open
- A night
- $25From, per site
- Sites
- 66All of them booked ahead
- Season
- April 1 – October 31Open April 1 through October 31
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 11 notices
In the agency’s own words
Indiana Dunes National Park hugs 15 miles (24 km) of the southern shore of Lake Michigan and has much to offer. Whether you enjoy scouting for rare species of birds or flying kites on the sandy beach, the national park's 16,000 acres will continually enchant you. Hikers will enjoy 50 miles (80 km) of trails over rugged dunes, mysterious wetlands, sunny prairies, meandering rivers and peaceful forests. Keep reading
Recreation
There is no one-size-fits-all trip to the dunes. Each season offers new and different ways to enjoy Indiana Dunes National Park. Spring splashes the river banks of the Heron Rookery with an abundance of colorful wildflowers in this birder's paradise. Lake Michigan summer sunsets paint the skies with vibrant rays that offer a picture-perfect picnic setting. In the fall, Maple trees burst with warm red and golden hues crafting a spectacular backdrop for a hike by the Chellberg Farm and winter brings a scenic canvas of virgin white snow begging for a cross-country skiing adventure in the Glenwood Dunes. As the seasons change, so do the recreational opportunities, park facility operating hours and closures and safety concerns. Here is a list of some of the activities that occur in the National Park: Beach-going & Swimming, Biking, Bird Watching, Camping, Fishing & Boating, Hiking, Geocaching, Historical Sites, Horseback Riding, Interpretive Programs, Picnic, Winter Activities and Guided Tours. Check the Calendar page on our website for our list of Ranger-led programs.
Facilities
The Dunewood Campground in the Indiana Dunes National Park has 66 campsites (54 drive-in sites and 12 walk-in sites; 4 sites are fully accessible). We have nice restrooms and showers. There are no electric or water hookups. The campground has accessible for visitors with mobility impairments. Some sites are limited on recreational vehicle length (please read each campsite description carefully).
Natural Features
Indiana Dunes National Park is a treasure of diverse natural resources located within an urban setting. The national park features communities that have both scientific and historic significance to the field of ecology. In addition, four National Natural Landmarks (including Pinhook Bog and Cowles Bog ) and one National Historical Landmark (the Bailly Homestead ) are located within its boundaries. The park is comprised of over 15,000 acres (6070 ha) of dunes, oak savannas, swamps, bogs, marshes, prairies, rivers, and forests. It contains 15 miles (24 km) of Lake Michigan shoreline spanning the distance from Gary to Michigan City. Lake Michigan is part of the largest complex of freshwater lakes in the world. The national park's beaches are the park's most significant recreational resource. For more information on our natural features visit the Nature and Science page on the park website.
Nearby Attractions
Located close to the campground is Lake View Beach on Lake Michigan which is located 1.5 miles north of the campground. Several other national park beaches are within easy driving distance. Do NOT park in the Town of Beverly Shores' beach parking lot, which is located just to the east of the Lake View lot. You will get ticketed. The town is very strict. A gas station / convenience store is located ¼ mile north of the campground at the intersection of U.S. Highway 12 and Broadway Avenue. The Beverly Shores South Shore Railroad station with passenger service to Chicago and South Bend is located on Broadway Avenue, ¼ mile north of the campground. Indiana Dunes Tourism and LaPorte County Convention & Visitors Bureau have lists of other activities in the area. Charges & Cancellations
What the agency tells you
A valid entrance pass or receipt is required for all visitors. You may pay upon arrival or purchase in advance. Indiana Dunes honors Federal interagency passes (annual, senior, access, 4th grade, Golden Age, etc.). For more information, visit the Indiana Dunes Fees & Passes page.
Campsite Limit. Up to 8 people may camp on each campsite.
Tent and Equipment Placement. All tents and equipment must be set up on the camping pad.
Everything else this campground posts · 8
Check-out time. Check out time is at Noon.
Vehicle Parking at the Campsite. All vehicles must remain on the paved part of the site.
Vehicle Parking at the Beach. Please park in the Lake View parking lot. Do NOT park in the Town of Beverly Shores' beach parking lot, which is located just to the east of the Lake View Parking Lot. You will get ticketed. The town strictly enforces its parking laws.
Maximum Stay Limits. Stays are limited to 14 days in a 30-day period.
Quiet Hours. Quiet hours are daily, 10:00 pm to 6:00 am. Please be considerate of others.
Pets. Pets must be attended, caged or on a leash (maximum length of 6 feet/2 m).
Campfires and Firewood. Fire must remain in the fire ring and you must bring your own wood. Do not cut or damage any standing trees.
To prevent theft, leave no valuables visible inside your vehicle.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 66 · 13 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- 4
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets - seasonal
- Drinking water
- Yes
- Dump station
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Beach
- Amphitheater
- Backpacking
- Beachcombing
- Biking
- Birding
- Boating
- Canoeing
- Environmental Education
- Evening Programs
- Fishing
- Guided Interpretive Walks
- Hiking
- Information Site
- Ranger programs
1 of 131 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:49 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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Watch for a cancellation
Full? Watch it.
One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We read recreation.gov once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time a site in your window is free for the nights you asked for.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
Tell me when the season opens
Watch for the season to open
One email when the season goes on sale, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time the agency has that season on sale.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 19
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $25 a night, plus one $8 recreation.gov reservation fee for the booking. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night, booked once. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
Who keeps the booking fee
The agency’s own policy text says the reservation fee and the cancellation processing fee are “retained by the reservation service contractor”, and that a campground concessionaire will decline to refund them because “they did not receive these fees”. Recreation.gov is run under contract by Booz Allen Hamilton. What share of your booking fee the contractor keeps isn’t published in any federal dataset we can read, so we print no number for it. Our reporting on the contract →
How we know this receipt · 5
recreation.gov availability, read 16:49 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
67 records
All 67 records
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 53 of the 67 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Douglas | 35 | rv nonelectric | $25 | |
| Douglas | 36 | rv nonelectric | $25 | |
| Douglas | 37 | rv nonelectric | $25 | |
| Douglas | 38 | rv nonelectric | $25 | |
| Douglas | 39 | rv nonelectric | $25 | |
| Douglas | 40 | rv nonelectric | $25 | |
| Douglas | 41 | rv nonelectric | yes | $25 |
| Douglas | 42 | rv nonelectric | $25 | |
| Douglas | 43 | rv nonelectric | $25 | |
| Douglas | 44 | rv nonelectric | $25 | |
| Douglas | 45 | rv nonelectric | $25 | |
| Douglas | 46 | rv nonelectric | $25 | |
| Douglas | 47 | rv nonelectric | $25 | |
| Douglas | 48 Camp Host Site | host pad | ||
| Douglas | 49 | rv nonelectric | $25 | |
| Douglas | 50 | rv nonelectric | $25 | |
| Douglas | 51 | rv nonelectric | $25 | |
| Douglas | 52 | rv nonelectric | $25 | |
| Douglas | 53 | rv nonelectric | $25 | |
| Douglas | 54 | rv nonelectric | $25 | |
| Douglas | 55 | tent only nonelectric | yes | |
| Douglas | 56 | tent only nonelectric | ||
| Douglas | 57 | tent only nonelectric | ||
| Douglas | 58 | tent only nonelectric | ||
| Douglas | 59 | tent only nonelectric | ||
| Douglas | 60 | tent only nonelectric | ||
| Douglas | 61 | tent only nonelectric | ||
| Douglas | 62 | tent only nonelectric | ||
| Douglas | 63 | tent only nonelectric | ||
| Douglas | 64 | tent only nonelectric | ||
| Douglas | 65 | tent only nonelectric | ||
| Douglas | 66 | tent only nonelectric | ||
| Douglas | 67 | tent only nonelectric | ||
| Mather | 1 | rv nonelectric | $25 | |
| Mather | 10 | rv nonelectric | $25 | |
| Mather | 11 | rv nonelectric | $25 | |
| Mather | 12 | rv nonelectric | $25 | |
| Mather | 13 | rv nonelectric | $25 | |
| Mather | 14 | rv nonelectric | $25 | |
| Mather | 15 | rv nonelectric | yes | $25 |
| Mather | 16 | rv nonelectric | $25 | |
| Mather | 17 | rv nonelectric | $25 | |
| Mather | 18 | rv nonelectric | $25 | |
| Mather | 19 | rv nonelectric | $25 | |
| Mather | 2 | rv nonelectric | $25 | |
| Mather | 20 | rv nonelectric | $25 | |
| Mather | 21 | rv nonelectric | $25 | |
| Mather | 22 | rv nonelectric | $25 | |
| Mather | 23 | rv nonelectric | $25 | |
| Mather | 24 | rv nonelectric | $25 | |
| Mather | 25 | rv nonelectric | $25 | |
| Mather | 26 | rv nonelectric | $25 | |
| Mather | 27 | rv nonelectric | $25 | |
| Mather | 28 | rv nonelectric | $25 | |
| Mather | 29 | rv nonelectric | $25 | |
| Mather | 3 | rv nonelectric | $25 | |
| Mather | 30 | rv nonelectric | yes | $25 |
| Mather | 31 | rv nonelectric | $25 | |
| Mather | 32 | rv nonelectric | $25 | |
| Mather | 33 | rv nonelectric | $25 | |
| Mather | 34 | rv nonelectric | $25 | |
| Mather | 4 | rv nonelectric | $25 | |
| Mather | 5 | rv nonelectric | $25 | |
| Mather | 6 | rv nonelectric | $25 | |
| Mather | 7 | rv nonelectric | $25 | |
| Mather | 8 | rv nonelectric | $25 | |
| Mather | 9 | rv nonelectric | $25 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It names it a host pad. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
25 of 67 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Dunbar Group SiteIndiana Dunes National Park · 1.2 mi
Central Avenue Walk-in SitesIndiana Dunes National Park · 2.8 mi
Chellberg Farm Picnic SheltersIndiana Dunes National Park · 6.4 mi
West Beach Picnic SheltersIndiana Dunes National Park · 12 miComing from south of the park, follow I-94 to exit 26B. Take the right ramp and follow signs for IN-49 North for 1.0 mi (1.6 km). Keep left to stay on IN-49 North (State Road 49) for 1.7 miles (2.7 km). Make a sharp right onto US-12 E / W Dunes Hwy. In 4.7 mi (7.5 km) turn right onto Broadway. In abot 300 feet turn left onto Golf Wood Rd and to the campground. For more detailed directions for other areas of the park, check the Directions page on the park website.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Beverly Shores, IN
Typical weather
Typical October night 45°F, day 62°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical April night 40°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or moreOutside the published season
A normal is the 1991-2020 average for the month, not a forecast: about half of all Julys are colder than the July line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Dunewood Campground is in Indiana’s 1st congressional district. Its representative, Frank Mrvan (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A. See every public-lands vote →