Mount Tom–Dunes Nature Preserve Beach, 3 beaches
5.8 mi · ▲ 235 ft · 2 hr 3 min
Mount Tom–Dunes Nature Preserve Beach, 3 beaches is a 5.8-mile out-and-back in Indiana Dunes State Park near Dune Acres Station, IN. The route passes Waverly Beach and Dunes Nature Preserve Beach before reaching Mount Tom at the turnaround, 2.9 miles in. It is mostly level, with 235 ft of elevation gain, and mostly paved. It scores 11/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.
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Mount Tom–Dunes Nature Preserve Beach, 3 beaches
5.8 mi · ▲ 235 ft · 2 hr 3 min
Elevation 583–746 ft
Out & Back · Indiana Dunes State Park
Trailhead: Calumet Trail · 41.63706, -87.08666
Weather Sep 21: sunrise 6:35 AM · sunset 6:49 PM
Parking lot at the trailhead
- Start on Calumet Trail, heading NE.
- 1.5 miBear right onto Dunes Kankakee Trail, heading N.
- 0.7 miPass Waverly Beach.
- 400 ftTurn left, heading NE.
- 50 ftBear left onto Wilson Road, heading NE.
- 50 ftBear right onto Dunes Kankakee Trail, heading NE.
- 50 ftContinue straight onto North 25 East, heading NE.
- 50 ftBear left, heading NE.
- 50 ftContinue straight onto Dunes Kankakee Trail, heading NE.
- 50 ftContinue straight onto North 25 East, heading E.
- 50 ftContinue straight onto Dunes Kankakee Trail, heading NE.
- 500 ftTurn right, heading N.
- 0.2 miPass Dunes Nature Preserve Beach.
- 200 ftTurn right, heading SE.
- 0.2 miTurn right onto 8, heading E.
- 450 ftReach Mount Tom, then turn around and head back the way you came.
- 450 ftTurn left, heading NE.
- 0.2 miTurn left, heading SE.
- 0.2 miTurn left onto Dunes Kankakee Trail, heading W.
- 0.1 miContinue straight onto North 25 East, heading W.
- 50 ftContinue straight onto Dunes Kankakee Trail, heading W.
- 50 ftBear right onto North 25 East, heading SW.
- 50 ftContinue straight onto Dunes Kankakee Trail, heading SW.
- 50 ftBear left onto Wilson Road, heading SW.
- 50 ftBear right, heading S.
- 50 ftTurn right onto Dunes Kankakee Trail, heading S.
- 0.8 miBear left onto Calumet Trail, heading S.
- 1.4 miArrive back at the trailhead.
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- Parking lot at the trailhead
More from Calumet Trail Trailhead
- Calumet Trail 4.2 mi · ▲ 0 ft
- Calumet Trail 2.9 mi · ▲ 0 ft
- Johnson's Hill–Mount Miner, 5 beaches 5.8 mi · ▲ 143 ft
- Fort Hill–Waverly Beach, 3 beaches 5.1 mi · ▲ 28 ft
- Barnett Hill–Dunes Nature Preserve Beach, 5 beaches 9 mi · ▲ 160 ft
- Dunes Kankakee Trail via Calumet Trail 5.1 mi · ▲ 55 ft
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