T ILS In• Indiana Dunes State Park CONSERVATION DEPARTMENT DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS • Dii'ision of STATE PARKS AND LANDS AND WATERS STATE OF INDIANA STATE OF INDIANA FIRE ... YOUR PARK Visitors are requested to observe the following rules in • Fire is the greatest order that we may fulfill the purpose for which the State Parks were founded namely: THE PRESERVATION OF A danger to our State Parks PRIMITIVE LANDSCAPE IN ITS ORIGINAL CONDITION. and native woodlands. 1. Do not injure any structure, rock, tree, flower, bird, or wild animal within the park. 2. Firearms are prohibited. • Build fires only in 3. Dogs are to be kept on leash. 4. There shall be no vending or advertising without places designated. permission of the Department of Conservation. 5. Camps are provided. Camping fee is twenty-five (25) cents per car or tent for each twenty-four • Put out your cigar.. hours or fraction. Please put waste in receptacles provided. ette or cigar before you 6. Fires may be built only in places provided. throw it away. 7. Motor vehicles shall be driven slowly and on estab­ lished roads. Park in designated places only. 8. Bathing is limited to such places and times as the • Break your match Department of Conservation deems safe. 9. Drinking water should be taken from pumps and before you drop it. hydrants only. The failure of any person to comply with any provision of the official regulation (published and placed in effect • Report any in.. September 15, 1927) shall be deemed a violation thereof and such person shall be subject to a fine as provided by fringement of fire regu.. act of March 11, 1919. CONSIDER THE RESULTS IF THE THOUSANDS OF OTHER lation to park rangers. VISITORS USED THE PARK AS You Dol THE DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION Division of Lands and Waters STATE OF INDIANA FIRE ... YOUR PARK Visitors are requested to observe the following rules in • Fire is the greatest order that we may fulfill the purpose for which the State Parks were founded namely: THE PRESERVATION OF A danger to our State Parks PRIMITIVE LANDSCAPE IN ITS ORIGINAL CONDITION. and native woodlands. 1. Do not injure any structure, rock, tree, flower, bird, or wild animal within the park. 2. Firearms are prohibited. • Build fires only in 3. Dogs are to be kept on leash. 4. There shall be no vending or advertising without places designated. permission of the Department of Conservation. 5. Camps are provided. Camping fee is twenty-five (25) cents per car or tent for each twenty-four • Put out your cigar.. hours or fraction. Please put waste in receptacles provided. ette or cigar before you 6. Fires may be built only in places provided. throw it away. 7. Motor vehicles shall be driven slowly and on estab­ lished roads. Park in designated places only. 8. Bathing is limited to such places and times as the • Break your match Department of Conservation deems safe. 9. Drinking water should be taken from pumps and before you drop it. hydrants only. The failure of any person to comply with any provision of the official regulation (published and placed in effect • Report any in.. September 15, 1927) shall be deemed a violation thereof and such person shall be subject to a fine as provided by fringement of fire regu.. act of March 11, 1919. CONSIDER THE RESULTS IF THE THOUSANDS OF OTHER lation to park rangers. VISITORS USED THE PARK AS You Dol THE DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION Division of Lands and Waters Dunes Arcade Hotel Excellent Hotel Accommodations European Plan $1.50 to $3.50, and Weekly Rates • Dunes Arcade Pavilion Dining Room, Coffee Shop A la Carte Service, Plate Lunches Sandwiches and Soft Drinks at Popular Prices Lockers and Bathing Suits • Duneside Inn American Plan Rooms and Meals $2.50 to $3.50 per day. Weekly rates. Meals served family style. The proprietor ofthis Inn strives to main­ tain an atmosphere of congenial infor­ mality and cordially invites the patronage of park guests. • Grocery Store Complete line of staple groceries and fresh meats for campers and picnickers. EACH INDIANA STATE PARK is fully equipped demonstrations in reforestation and game culture with all facilities for picnic parties or campers. to those interested in this phase of conservation. The over-night camp fee is twenty-five cents Shakamak is equipped with dormitories and mess (25c) per car, which partly covers the cost of hall to accommodate organization camps up to a fuel, water and sanitary maintenance. The water capacity of two hundred and fifty people. is tested frequently throughout the season by the MUSCATATUCK STATE PARK, in Jennings State Board of Health. Shelter houses and re­ County, embraces the finest scenery, gorges and freshment stands provide rest and comfort. Hotel timbered slopes of the beautiful Muscatatuck reservations should be made by mail direct to River. This section of Jennings County long has the Inns. been known for fine hunting and excellent fishing. A Points of Interest map showing the complete Muscatatuck Inn, with cottage rooms, provides state highway system and location of each state delightful lodging and wholesome food for those park, memorial, game preserve, fish hatchery, and seeking quiet and restful surroundings, and en­ forest reservation with a more detailed descrip­ joys a wide reputation among motorists as a stop tion of each; likewise the location of ninety other over point. points of interest, is free. Ask any park custod­ POKAGON STATE PARK comprises nearly one ian, or write the Department of Conservation, 126 thousand acres of the lovely, peaceful rolling land­ State House, Indianapolis. scape in Steuben County, two miles of which front TURKEY RUN STATE PARK in Parke County Lake James. There are four hundred acres of includes the finest of that interesting landscape deep woods. The big lake is a, fisherman's para­ for which 'Sugar Creek is famous. Here are the dise. Buffalo, elk and deer in their native habitat, most spectacular gorges of the midwest, cut in but within strong corrals, represent the larger sandstone by the action of glacial streams. Here species of wild life once native to the mid-west. also is an area of two hundred and eighty-five Excellent boating and bathing facilities, and ten­ acres of virgin timber, including wonderful speci­ nis courts, offer wholesome recreation. Saddle mens of tulip poplar, walnut, oak, cherry, hem­ horses are available and an eighteen-hole golf lock, sycamore and maple. course is located nearby. The heavy timber growth and the cool can­ Potawatomi Inn's dining room seats three hun­ yons decorated with lace-like ferns, moss and dred capacity. Excellent cooking and modern guest vines, provide a never ending thrill to nature lover rooms, make this an unusually popular lake park. and hiker. Turkey Run Inn provides modern hotel quarters SPRING MILL STATE PARK of eleven hundred and meals. Shelter houses and refreshment acres in Lawrence County, is perhaps the most stands are located in the picnic area. unique of the state parks. Here in a beautiful little valley among heavily forested hills is the CUFTY FALLS STATE PARK comprises a por­ restored pioneer village of Spring Mill with its tion of the rugged, majestic landscape of historic massive stone grist mill operated by a flume and Jefferson County near Madison, where the beau­ overshot water wheel. The post office, general tiful Ohio Valley is finest. The outstanding fea­ store, apothecary, nursery, distillery, saw mill and ture of this park is the water-worn gorge where numerous residences all furnished completely in Clifty Creek drops seventy feet from a stone ledge. the period of our forefathers, provide a never­ Trails wind through the great hollow and along ending delight to park guests. the sides of precipitous vine and fern-covered To the student of nature, the caves and subter­ cliffs, giving access to wooded ravines and lesser ranean streams with blind aquatic life, are great water-falls. attractions. Restaurant service and refreshments Clifty Inn is on the crest of a steep slope, four are available in the quaint old log tavern. hundred feet above the Ohio River. The sweep­ ing curves of the river, Kentucky hills far distant, McCORMICK'S CREEK STATE PARK in the and the panorama of Madison are unsurpassed, White River valley of Owen County has within its viewed from the Inn veranda. The Inn provides boundaries some of the most majestic scenery of comfortable beds, immaculate housekeeping, and southern Indiana. The park is at the edge of the well cooked food in abundance. great stone belt, and is replete with ravines, BROWN COUNTY STATE PARK, in the heart gulches, and timbered slopes. Park woodlands are of the mountainous hills of Brown County, has noted for the great profusion of wild flowers. A that spectacular topography of dense woods and modern artificial swimming pool and bath house is wide, sweeping valleys, all readily accessible over in operation. Dormitories and mess halls for modern, all-weather roads. large camp groups make this park especially The Kin Hubbard Ridge development consists adapted to organization camps. of a group of delightful and fully equipped cot- Canyon Inn, a modern structure, accommodates J ..... J ..... - ••-..._- ~----- tion of each; likewise the location of ninety other over point. points of interest, is free. Ask any park custod­ POKAGON STATE PARK comprises nearly one ian, or write the Department of Conservation, 126 thousand acres of the lovely, peaceful rolling land­ State House, Indianapolis. scape in Steuben County, two miles of which front TURKEY RUN STATE PARK in Parke County Lake James. There are four hundred acres of includes the finest of that interesting landscape deep woods.