Friday, October 1, 2010

Starved Rock St. Pk, Utica, Illinois

After visiting the Badlands in South Dakota we traveled through a few more states and made our way to Starved Rock State Park. This is a large park with lots of hiking trails.



The picture below is of starved rock. There used to be a fort on top of the rock but it has since burned down.



We were in site #44 at the park. Lots of trees and lots of privacy. They offer electric only but there are plenty of water spigots around if needed.





We hiked two different trails. This particular trail went to five different canyons and also to four different overlooks.

The length of the entire trail was just over five miles.






As fall has just arrived, I tried to capture a few pictures showing that the leaves are indeed beginning to change.









Below is a picture of Wildcat Canyon. We saw wild turkeys, deer and pileated woodpeckers during our hike.





As you can see there are some steep steps during the hike. Most are 30-50 at a time and several times there are 100-150 at a time.








See ya down the road !







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