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No idea on biking it but do some research on your route and stick to routes people have used before.
I spend a lot of time in Gary for work and have done a lot of urban exploration there and like any other city Gary is made up of many areas of varying degrees of sketchiness. However it seems to me that most of Gary is sketchy as hell; I would make sure it was a say time trip and stick to proven routes not just for safety but because the roads there are HORRIBLE and there are huge coil trucks everywhere.
An adventurous friend and I wanted to go to the dunes. So we followed the L.S.D. path all the way south. We wanted to stick as close to the lake with a the help of a map. IT SUCKED! On our way there some friendly locals laughed and said "hey look some white people!" Into Gary it was a different story going down MLK drive. It was a nasty westside type ghetto. Getting back, we took the train tracks along the lake in order to avoid going through Gary again.
Going south along US 41 isn't all that bad. I've done the ride to Schererville, IN a bunch of times with my cycling club and it's moderately pleasant since you can use the greenway to go from the south side to wolf lake and indiana and from there it's fairly empty roads for the most part with one stretch that's along the highway although that isn't too bad either.
An adventurous friend and I wanted to go to the dunes. So we followed the L.S.D. path all the way south. We wanted to stick as close to the lake with a the help of a map. IT SUCKED! On our way there some friendly locals laughed and said "hey look some white people!" Into Gary it was a different story going down MLK drive. It was a nasty westside type ghetto. Getting back, we took the train tracks along the lake in order to avoid going through Gary again.
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