Our last major road trip for 2025 took us to the dog-friendly Sleeping Bear Dunes National It's hard to capture how steep the dunes are in pictures Lakeshore. Located in the northwestern part of the lower peninsula in Michigan, famous for its 450-foot dunes towering above beautiful Lake Michigan. We planned and booked this trip for the first week of October way back at the beginning of the summer, as luck would have it our trip fell during the government shutdown and we debat