Dunes Highway 1960’s Era (Deserted) Holiday Inn Hotel Remains in Gary, Indiana #shortsvideo
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The Steel City Storm This facility sits on a very busy stretch of road called the “Dunes Highway” that is also US Highway 12 and 20 between Portage and Gary, Indiana. It was once was the major road around the southern tip of Lake Michigan for travelers going from Detroit to Chicago, and even when the state completed the Indiana Toll Road (I-90), literature lists this hotel as “Convenient to the ‘Gary East’ exit from the Indiana Toll Road”. However, when construction finished on I-65, the reconfigured interchange meant that this building was hidden from most traffic, and no clear exit from the freeway would lead you there. That probably spelled eventual doom for the hotel.
A large fence surrounds the property, broken down in several places. The guest rooms were in a two-story L-shaped building, with ground-floor rooms opening directly into the parking lot that surrounds the building, and second-floor rooms accessible from an open walkway reached via staircases at each end. The parking lot is overgrown.
This hotel on the east side of Gary is more than likely one of the locations built during that expansion in the late 1960s – it is true to the standard design of that era. There is a large lobby that also housed a family restaurant – so that the traveler could be sure of what they were eating. Most hotels also had an outdoor pool for family recreation – though in northern climates that pool sometimes was indoors.
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