Popular Sleeping Bear Dunes overlook removed as sand shifts

Shifting sands close scenic Sleeping Bear overlook. What's changed at the park

Visitors to Sleeping Bears Dunes National Lakeshore won’t be able to take in the views from a popular platform along Pierce Stocking Scenic Drive this summer after winter winds undercut the site. The National Park Service on May 22 said the Pierce Stocking Scenic Drive Lake Michigan Overlook has been removed because the shifting dunes had undercut its supports and left them hanging in mid-air. “Over the winter, the dune severed ties with the woo…

Popular Sleeping Bear Dunes overlook removed as sand shifts

National Park Service workers found that the wooden platform was no longer anchored in the sand below.