SAUGATUCK, Mich. — Build a house upon a dune and — in some cases — neither the house nor the dune will be able to stand. Roughly 273,000 acres of Michigan coastline is covered by sand dunes. Around ...

MICHIGAN CITY, Indiana – I confused a lot of people trying to explain where we were headed for four days on the beach: Indiana, on Lake Michigan. It wasn’t any less confusing while we were there. Over ...

SAUGATUCK, Mich. — Singapore, Michigan was — for all practical purposes — buried by sand in the 1870s after the area’s trees were sent to Chicago for a massive rebuild immediately after the "Great ...

Michigan’s sand dunes come in many forms, from soft, sloping shoulders of sand to white-gold expanses so vast they can be seen from space. They can shelter rare and endangered wildlife, anchor ...

With sun shining on the grassy dunes behind them at Oval Beach in Saugatuck, state Reps. Rachel Hood (D-Grand Rapids) and Joey Andrews (D-St. Joseph) last week discussed two bills in the works to ...

Despite about 20 summers of scooping back sand, the Dressler family has never seen their lakeside home this close to doom. A towering, creeping sand mountain that swallowed several cottages in the ...

SAUGATUCK, Mich. — Over thousands of years, wind has blown sand inland from the beach to create what we now know as the Saugatuck dunes. While it may be difficult to venture up the dunes, they make ...

MEARS, MI – The Jeeps are coming. Silver Lake State Park is preparing for an invasion of Jeeps on the Lake Michigan sand dunes scramble area next weekend, June 4-6, during the 5th Anniversary Silver ...