We also have new backyard amenities, including a picnic table and the option to purchase BBQ and/or fire pit services: Complete Your Stay With a BBQ grill and/or Firepit Incidental Fee, Charcoal for BBQ grill, 12lb bag Enviro-Log for Firepit, per log Gratis: BBQ utensils, BBQ Grill Brush, and Ash Bucket Complete Your Stay With the use of EV Our home is surrounded by woods and is situated near the Ivanhoe Nature Preserve to the north and the Ivanhoe South Nature Preserve to the south. Don’t be surprised if you see deer, squirrels, frogs, and even wild turkeys through the large picture windows.  For your comfort and convenience, we also keep rodent bait stations outside the house and ant spray inside the home. For the same reasons, we ask that you wash your dishes.

Welcome to our childhood home, where we stay when relaxing in the metro area. It's where we played as youngsters in the backyard, up and down the street, and in the surrounding woods.

Our home is 5 min from the Hard Rock Casino/Concerts, 10 min from the Gary/Chicago Airport, 15 minutes from the BP Whiting Refinery and less than 20 min from the Indiana Dunes Park. In addition to being 20 minutes from the Indiana Dunes National Park, we are just 7 minutes from the Ivanhoe and Ivanhoe South Nature Preserves on Gary's wonderfully wooded west side. What we miss the most when we are gone are the woods, knowing all the neighbors, and being able to get to most places with little traffic. While looking out of the large picture windows or sitting on the front porch, don’t be surprised if deer, squirrels, wild turkeys, and an assortment of other birds and frogs visit you or if a neighbor walks or drives by and waves. We also adorned our yard with plants native to the area, which you can see in the Dunes National Park and many parts of Northwest Indiana, including our wonderfully wooded west side Gary neighborhood.