Why does Sleeping Bear Dunes require more search and rescue operations than a lot of bigger, more mountainous and more remote U.S. National Parks? Last year, Sleeping Bear Dunes ranked number 13 on the list of 100 places with the highest number of search and rescue operations for national parks, lakeshore and recreation areas.

According to MLive.com, there were more search and rescue operations at Sleeping Bear Dunes than there were at Glacier National Park. In Montana. Where stuff like this happens all the time:

The main reasons people have to get rescued at the Dunes? Fatigue, because of the heat on the dunes in the summer or because they tackled more than they could handle on difficult terrain like dunes. And, they get separated from their group and get lost in the wooded areas.

 

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