Great Marsh Trail
Great Marsh Trail is well named. Its oft-soggy tread skirts and crosses large marshy areas. Expect wetland vegetation, birds, muskrats and, in warmer weather, mosquitoes. One of the best locations along the lakeshore to get immersed in a marsh ecosystem.
Directions
Porter County. From the intersection of U.S. 12 and IN 49, go east for 4.6 miles to Broadway, then left 0.2 mile to a parking area on the right. A second parking area is 0.2 mile further on.
GPS: N 41 40.481 W 86 59.208
Facilities
None
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Nearby Natural Areas (miles)
Kemil Beach (1.8)
Glenwood Dunes Trail (3.8)
Mount Baldy (4.6)
Indiana Dunes State Park (6)
Barker Woods (6.4)
Cowles Bog (6.5)
Little Calumet River Trail (7.2)
Ambler Flatwoods (11.3)
Tolleston Dunes (12)
Moraine Nature Preserve (12.8)
Bluhm County Park (13.1)
Wintergreen Woods (13.4)
Coulter Nature Preserve (14.1)
Meadowbrook Nature Preserve (14.1)
West Beach (14.5)
Miller Woods (16.5)