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Spitler Woods State Natural Area is a 202.5-acre (81.9 ha) state park located adjacent to Mount Zion, Illinois. The state park is located within the Decatur, Illinois metropolitan area. The eastern two-thirds of the state park is a listed Illinois Nature Preserve noted for its old-growth forest grove of white oak and hickory .
Fort Daniel Conservation Area is a 200-acre (0.8 km 2) park located 4 miles (6.5 km) east of Mount Zion, Illinois. The land preserve protects the site of a ghost town, Whistleville. Today, the site centers on hiking and picknicking in the Big Creek watershed southeast of Decatur. [1]
The Glacier National Park Tourist Trails, including the Inside Trail, South Circle Trail and North Circle Trail, were established in Glacier National Park to connect a series of tourist camps and hotels established by the Great Northern Railway between 1910 and 1915.
Criteria: Points on this list are the highest and lowest points within each national park and its associated national preserve, if it has one.It does not include adjacent or associated national recreation areas, parkways, memorials, or forests, but does include private property within park boundaries.
George Bird Grinnell - Early naturalist promoting Glacier; A. Starker Leopold - author of the 1963 Leopold Report-Wildlife Management in the National Parks; Military; Politicians. William Howard Taft - U.S. president who signed law creating Glacier, May 11, 1910; Henry L. Stimson - Politician and promoter of creating the park; Promoters
Sep. 8—The 16-mile round trip hike to Two Medicine Pass begins on the South Shore Trail along Two Medicine Lake and meanders for two miles before crossing over Paradise Creek on a suspension ...
Illinois Route 121 passes through the village, leading northwest 8 miles (13 km) to the center of Decatur and southeast 19 miles (31 km) to Sullivan. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the village of Mount Zion has a total area of 4.28 square miles (11.1 km 2), of which 0.003 square miles (1.9 acres), or 0.07%, are water. [2]
Going-to-the-Sun Road is a scenic mountain road in the Rocky Mountains of the western United States, in Glacier National Park in Montana.The Sun Road, as it is sometimes abbreviated in National Park Service documents, is the only road that traverses the park, crossing the Continental Divide through Logan Pass at an elevation of 6,646 feet (2,026 m), which is the highest point on the road. [3]