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The Garden of the Gods Wilderness is a 3,318-acre (13.43 km 2) parcel of land listed as a Wilderness Area of the United States. It is located within the Shawnee National Forest in Hardin, Pope, Saline, and Gallatin counties in the U.S. state of Illinois. The nearest town of any size is Equality.
Located in the beautiful Shawnee National Forest in southern Illinois, the Garden of the Gods section of the forest features ancient sandstone cliffs and stunning rock formations. This beautiful ...
Website. gardenofgods.com. U.S. National Natural Landmark. Designated. 1971. Garden of the Gods (Arapaho: Ho3o’uu Niitko’usi’i) is a 1,341.3 acre public park located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States. [ 1 ] 862 acres (3.49 km 2) of the park was designated a National Natural Landmark in 1971.
The western terminus is in Grand Tower, Illinois, at the Mississippi River. Sections of the River to River Trail form part of the Southern Section of the American Discovery Trail. [1] [2] From east to west, the trail serves the following settlements and resources: Elizabethtown, Illinois; Garden of the Gods Wilderness; One Horse Gap; Lusk Creek ...
Garden of the Gods contains 1,343.3 acres of land, with 862 acres designated as a Natural National Landmark in 1971. The name came from a surveyor by the name of Rufus Cable when Colorado Springs ...
Shawnee National Forest. The Shawnee National Forest is a United States National Forest located in the Ozark and Shawnee Hills of Southern Illinois, United States. Administered by the U.S.D.A. Forest Service, it consists of approximately 289,000 acres (1,100 km²) of federally managed lands. In descending order of land area it is located in ...
Shawnee Hills. Coordinates: 37°30′N 88°40′W. Garden of the Gods in the Shawnee National Forest. The Shawnee Hills are a region within the larger Interior Low Plateaus physiographic province located in southern Illinois, southern Indiana, and western Kentucky. [1] In Illinois it rests mainly in an east-west arc roughly following the ...
Like the nearby Garden of the Gods Wilderness, the Lusk Creek Wilderness contains dramatic cliffs and overlooks eroded from Carboniferous gray sandstone. As with other wilderness areas within Shawnee National Forest, the Lusk Creek Wilderness is made of hilly second-growth forested areas that were used, until the land condemnations of the 1930s, as pasture land.