Sleeping Bear Dunes Back Open, No Major Issues Reported
By Art Bukowski | Nov. 17, 2025
Back in business.
After the longest federal government shutdown in history, hundreds of thousands of federal employees have or are returning to work after about six weeks off. That includes dozens of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore employees, who returned late last week to one of the Grand Traverse region’s signature attractions.
Superintendent Scott Tucker deferred The Ticker’s questions to a National Park Service communications email, which sent a boilerplate response (see it in its entirety at the end of this story).
Laura Ann Johnson, executive director of Friends of Sleeping Bear Dunes, tells The Ticker park employees and management are thrilled to be back. So is her team of …
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