Horseshoe Lake State Park is a 2,960 acre state park found in the state of Illinois, United States. The state park surrounds Horseshoe Lake, so-called because of its shape like that of a large horseshoe. Horseshoe Lake is considered the second biggest natural lake and makes up almost 2,400 acres of the total area of […]
Illinois Beach State Park
Illinois Beach State Park is one of the loveliest state parks in the whole Mid-West. But what is it that sets this park apart from other well-known sites like Wisconsin’s Big Foot Beach and Missouri’s Montauk State Park? The wide-open park stretches over six miles along the environmentally protected, placid beach ridge shoreline of Lake […]
Goose Lake Prairie State Park
The Goose Lake Prairie State Park in Morris, Illinois exemplifies why the State of Illinois is called the “Prairie State”. This name came from the fact that, prior to and during a considerable part of the 1800s, the state was composed of 60 percent prairie land with the other 40 percent being prairie indigenous flowering […]