The Indiana Dunes is an extraordinary place — a stretch of southern Lake Michigan shoreline where towering sand meets oak savanna, freshwater marsh, and boreal forest — within a few miles of one of the great cities of the world.

For two centuries, this region has drawn a particular kind of person. Not defined by profession or income, but by a certain restlessness with the world as it was handed to them. They came as scientists, architects, artists, activists, and exhausted city dwellers. What they found here — the scale of the dunes, the silence, the improbable wildness pressed against the industrial horizon — stopped them in their tracks.

The Indiana Dunes has always been a place apart. That character hasn't changed. It's simply become harder to find.

I've called Dune Acres home for twenty years. My family has lived here for three generations. I know this market from the inside — not just its geography, but its rhythms, its relationships, and the things that don't show up in a listing search. For buyers, this means guidance that goes beyond what any search algorithm can offer. For sellers, it means working with someone who understands that what you've built here — or inherited, or discovered — carries a value that no comparable sale can fully capture. Combined with the marketing reach and global network of @properties | Christie's International Real Estate, I bring something to every client that is genuinely difficult to find: the kind of knowledge that only comes from living here, and the tools to act on it.

— Bonnie Hawksworth, REALTOR®