Canoe think of anything better than a day on the water? I shore can’t! (aka Our State Park Summer)
This summer we decided to stay local, and visited a bunch of Illinois State and County Parks. We've both lived in Illinois all our lives, so some we had been to in the past, but a few were new to us. My last blog post was about Fyrne Clyffe in Southern Illinois, which had some surprising waterfalls, and a lake for fishing but not big enough for much else. It was a new park to us, and we would go back to Southern Illinois again, but maybe not to this campground. The Shawnee National Forest has a lot of options, but for us it means a long weekend trip, ideally with at least four days, because of the long drive there and back. A few weekends later, because it was hot, we went north to White Pines in Mt. Morris. Again, a fun experience, but not one we would return to with regularity. For us, the highlight was driving the Metris across the fords. (Not fjords, as I kept wanting to call them.) The creek that runs through the park has trout...