Destinations · Indiana
Gary
IN · 41.5956, -87.3453
Lincoln Highway, The Indiana Lincoln Highway Byway and Historic Route 66 are signed byways within 30 miles of Gary, Indiana.
Understand
Gary is both famous and infamous. It's the "just one place that can light my face" and "home sweet home" effusively described in the song of the same name from the 1957 musical The Music Man. It's the childhood home of Janet, Michael, Tito, Jermaine, and the rest of the Jackson family. It's also home to an unattractive and often industrial-smelling stretch of highway east of Chicago, and has repeatedly ranked first in the nation among large cities for homicides per capita.
The same roads run past Hammond, where they are ranked and described in full.
Day-trip loops
Ready-made loops for Gary are growing. What is within reach is measured today; plan a live day trip and the engine routes it now.
Within reach
Measured from Byway's own registries, 30 miles around town.
Scenic byways
- Lincoln Highway · 12 mi · national
- The Indiana Lincoln Highway Byway · 18 mi
- Historic Route 66 · 24 mi · national
National parks
- Indiana Dunes National Park · 1 mi
Campgrounds
- Dunbar Group Site · 19 mi
- Dunewood Campground · 19 mi
- Central Avenue Walk-in Sites · 22 mi
Lookouts
- Des Plaines River · 28 mi
Named places
- Borman Square Park · 0 mi
- Linear Park · 0 mi
- Norton Park · 0 mi
- Froebel Park · 1 mi
- Van Buren Totlot · 1 mi
- Genesis Convention Center · 1 mi
- Fusion · 1 mi
- Jackson Park · 1 mi
A day out of Gary, planned on real roads
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More day-trip bases nearby
- Lake Station · 5 mi
- Hobart · 6 mi
- East Chicago · 7 mi
- Hammond · 8 mi
- Lake County · 8 mi
- Merrillville · 8 mi