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At 10am on a Sunday morning, we had the car park (and the dunes!) to ourselves! If you’ve got good lungs and can hold your breath, there are also long drop toilet facilities. You can also rent sandboards at The Sand Box, including sit down sleds that are easier for children.įollowing the road around to the right hand side of the lake, you drive straight into the car park for the ‘pedestrian dune access’ part of the Silver Lake State Park. Even though they are labelled as ‘advanced’, these ones are recommended for adults. The advanced boards are $10 per hour, have foot bindings and require scribbling over the bottom with a bar of wax before each ‘run’. Beginner boards are $5 per hour but are aimed more at children and have a rope to help with balance. *Tip* The Wave Club has both beginner and advanced board rentals. They are quite flexible, if you end up needing more time, you can pay for the extra when you return it. We picked up a couple of sandboards, initially paying for a 1 hour rental. Our first stop was at Wave Club Water Sports, a rental company on the Silver Lake lakefront. Sandboarding Michigan Silver Lake Sand Dunes
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My SatNav decided to send me down a single lane dirt track through a forest so part of me wondered if we were ever going to find the dunes! When you first enter the town of Mears, you drive by multiple off road vehicle rental companies, each vehicle proudly displaying a bright orange flag to make them more visible in the dunes. Did you know you can go sandboarding in Michigan?! Thanks to a roadside sign on the I-94, advertising ‘dune rides’, I did a bit of research and discovered Silver Lake Sand Dunes on the shores of Lake Michigan. It’s an environment that’s usually associated with boiling hot desert like conditions that aren’t easily accessible (believe me, I’ve camped in the Sahara Desert during a sand storm!). I guess it’s a landscape that isn’t a common one. There’s something about sand dunes that I find incredible.