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Sign for Paul H. Douglas Center for Environmental Education at Indiana Dunes National Park with trees and a blue sky in the background. This sign is on Lake Street just one block north of downtown Miller Beach.

Support Our Work

We are a volunteer-led organization working since 2017 to share the beauty of Gary's Miller Beach neighborhood and its role as the western gateway to Indiana Dunes National Park.

Visit Miller Beach Gary is the only comprehensive destination portal for Gary's ecotourism destinations — connecting residents, day trippers, and overnight visitors to our beaches, trails, national park, and local businesses.

Miller Beach sits at the edge of one of America's great national parks, yet receives less than one percent of Indiana Dunes' four million annual visitors. The opportunity is enormous — and awareness is the gap we are closing.

Your support funds the events, advertising, and outreach that bring visitors through our doors and dollars into Gary's revitalizing business corridor. Every contribution moves us closer to the thriving, visited, celebrated neighborhood we know Miller Beach to be.

Woman wearing a white shirt and green pants, sitting in a wicker chair, reading a brochure about trails at Miller Beach, Indiana, featuring images and text about hiking, biking, and paddling locations.

Become a business member

Link your listing directly to your business and take advantage of the growing traffic to our Visit Miller Beach website. Website traffic from 2023 to 2024 increased by 75% and continues to grow and sustain interest.

Be included in future marketing collateral such as brochures that are placed in NPS and SSCVA Visitor Centers, tear sheets. Be highlighted in our online directories.

Easily cohost your events to both the Visit Miller Beach facebook and website in one easy step when you list your event on Facebook.

Building great content and partnerships is driving awareness to Miller Beach as a destination, and to your business as a part of our growing business corridor.

Vibration Juice Bar includes a massage and wellness center with signs for yoga and Reiki. The building is painted blue and white with a small parking lot in front. Directly on the Lake Street Indiana Dunes History Trail.

Donate and be a “Friends of Lake Street” member

Support efforts to bring events to downtown Lake Street, provide brochures and tear sheets, as well as maintenance of street pole banners and lights. We partner with the City of Gary, South Shore CVA, and Legacy Foundation’s NWI Thrive project continue to boost our reach and drive interest in our Miller Beach businesses.

Our relationships with Northern Indiana Regional Planning Commission (NIRPC), National Park Service (NPS), and the Gary Public Transportation Corp (GPTC) are essential to further building our efforts.

Help contribute by volunteering and by becoming a member.