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Steep sandy dunes with scattered green vegetation overlook the turquoise waters of Lake Michigan at Good Harbor Bay, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. Sleeping Bear Dunes, Michigan
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Steep sandy dunes with scattered green vegetation overlook the turquoise waters of Lake Michigan at Good Harbor Bay, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.
Sleeping Bear Dunes Good Harbor Bay, Sleeping Bear Dunes, Michigan.

Sleeping Bear Dunes

dunes, Michigan, United States
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Sleeping Bear Dunes, large complex of shifting sand dunes, extending 7 miles (11 km) along the northeastern shore of Lake Michigan between Empire and Glen Haven, in the northwestern part of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan, U.S. The name derives from an Ojibwa Indian legend in which a mother bear and two cubs swam across the lake from Wisconsin to escape a forest fire; the cubs drowned and became the North and South Manitou islands,...

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