The strip of land that runs along Lake Michigan from the entrance to Jackson Harbor at 64th Street, behind La Rabida Hospital, then down to 67th Street is home to more than 1,000 rock carvings.
Those carvings, some dating to the 1930s, are on limestone blocks that once formed a revetment protecting park and beach from the lake. The beach is gone as is most of the revetment’s structural integrity. Where it isn’t a jumbled pile of large blocks, it’s a line of rocks now mostly under water.
Lower lake levels in 2025 and 2026 brought many carvings out of the water and thus photographable. That includes the artwork in the gallery below, and hundreds more carvings you can wade through here.
