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Bailly/Chellberg Trail (Indiana Dunes National Park, IN)

On By Andrew WojtanikIn Easy Hikes, Indiana, Indiana Dunes National Park1 Comment

Bailly/Chellberg Trail, Indiana Dunes National Park, June 2022 A prominent French Canadian fur trader, Joseph Bailly settled in the Indiana Dunes area in the early 19th century, establishing a trading post in 1822 near present-day Porter, Indiana. Decades later, Swedish immigrants Anders and Johanna Kjellberg purchased 80 acres of land on the other side of …

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Accokeek Farm Loop (Piscataway Park, MD)

On By Andrew WojtanikIn Easy Hikes, Maryland2 Comments

Situated inside Maryland’s Piscataway Park, the Accokeek Foundation, an education non-profit, runs the 200-acre National Colonial Farm along the banks of the Potomac River. In addition to live barnyard animals, the farm features a series of interlocking nature trails, several of which can be combined to form a roughly 2.5-mile circuit around the riverside tract. …

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