Category Archives: Indiana Dunes
Birding in Northwest Indiana
If you are a Birding Enthusiast, Northwest Indiana is the place to be! Where else do you find a Four Day Birding Festival dedicated to just Birding? From the Indiana Dunes, to the Hammond Indiana Bird Sanctuary to the Kankakee Wildlife Preserve there’s plenty to see and do. There’s also the Weekly Birding Walks…
Opening Season Friendship Botanic Gardens
Help kick off a momentous 2019 season by joining Friendship Botanic Gardens for the official spring opening on Saturday, May 11th, 2019 from 10:00 am – 5:00 pm! The Gardens are open from May through the end of October on Tuesdays through Sundays from 9am-5pm CST. Admission is $6. Children under 12 are…
Nature Lovers LOVE Springtime!
Washington Park Zoo Opens with New Born Otters On January 31st, 2017 a pair of otter pups were born at Washington Park Zoo, Michigan City Indiana. This is the fourth time in seven years that the Washington Park Zoo has welcomed the birth of River Otters. Although we are giving the mom plenty of privacy…
Washington Park Zoo Opens with New Born Otters
On January 31st, 2017 a pair of otter pups were born at Washington Park Zoo, Michigan City Indiana. This is the fourth time in seven years that the Washington Park Zoo has welcomed the birth of River Otters. Although we are giving the mom plenty of privacy to raise her pups, our keeper staff are…
FREE Weekly Entertainment Newsletter for Northwest Indiana
PanoramaNOW Entertainment News Has a FREE Weekly Newsletter! Our Weekly Newsletter Includes the MAJOR Events & Festivals going on in Northwest Indiana for that Weekend AND Our Recent Articles or Blogs. Folks LOVE our newsletter and it has become very Popular! We only list MAJOR events and not the local church bible study…
Ronnie Cox (the Actor) Live Concert at Lubeznik Art Center
Most people know of Ronnie’s Cox’s acting career (Total Recall, Robo Cop, Beverly Hills Cop, Deliverance) but not so many know of his life-long love and dedication to music. These days, he spends less time acting and more time as a singer/songwriter performing at folk festivals, concert venues and small intimate theaters all over the…
Washington Park Zoo Receives Grant
The Washington Park Zoological Society would like to acknowledge the Otto J. and Margaret M. Zack Charitable Trust, Bank of America, N.A. Trustee for awarding us a grant for 2017 in the amount of $80,000. This grant is to be used to purchase and install 2 generators along with food and medical expenses for the…
White Breasted Nuthatch Bird
by Carolyn A Marsh, Illiana Birds A White-breasted Nuthatch showed up in the fall of 2016 at the Hammond Bird Sanctuary’s feeder station at the Hammond Marina and never left in Hammond Indiana. It appears to be a new sanctuary resident now as I saw it continuously through February 2017 taking sunflower seeds…
Maple Sugar Time at Indiana Dunes
With the last of the freezing nights and the beginning of sap flow, maple trees are tapped for their sweet sap which is boiled into delicious maple syrup. In the 1870s, Swedish immigrants Anders and Johanna “Kjellberg” bought 80 acres in Porter County, Indiana, to establish a modest family farm. They were the first of…
Indiana Dunes Birding Festival
Celebrate the migration of birdlife through the Indiana Dunes region this May 12-15, 2022 at the 8th Annual Indiana Dunes Birding Festival. The festival is a partnership with the region’s major environmental groups highlighting the dunes area’s rich biodiversity and bird watching opportunities to create a positive impact on the economic, conservation, and environmental education…




















