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The trail, also known under the name Woodland Bay Trail, [2] is the longest in the county. It is approximately 22 miles (35 km) in length [a] and begins at the Woodard Bay Natural Resources Conservation Area and runs mostly south to southeast towards its terminus at the intersection of the Yelm-Rainier-Tenino Trail.
Harry "Babe" Woodyard State Natural Area is an Illinois state park on 1,104 acres (447 ha) in Vermilion County, Illinois, United States. Part of this area used to be owned by Piankeshaw Council, Boy Scouts of America (BSA) a former part of Prairielands Council BSA, after those councils merged in 1992.
Wood River (historically, Rivière du Bois) is a 2.4-mile-long (3.9 km) [1] tributary of the Mississippi River, which it joins near East Alton, and Wood River, Illinois, to the northeast of St. Louis, Missouri. The Wood River is formed by the confluence of its West and East forks.
Illinois Route 255, a four-lane limited-access highway, passes through the east side of Wood River, leading northwest 10 miles (16 km) to Godfrey and south 15 miles (24 km) to Collinsville. According to the U.S. Census Bureau , Wood River has a total area of 7.23 square miles (18.73 km 2 ), of which 6.98 square miles (18.08 km 2 ) are land and ...
Woodard Bay was one of the four original conservation areas statewide. A new kind of marine conservation effort began at Woodard Bay when The Nature Conservancy signed a 10-year lease with the Washington Department of Natural Resources to restore 10 acres (40,000 m 2) of sub-tidal land in Henderson Inlet near the mouth of Woodard Bay to bring ...
At over 575 miles (925 km) in length, it is the longest trail in Illinois. [1] Parts of it are in the coast-to-coast American Discovery Trail. [2] The Grand Illinois Trail began life in 1992 when three La Salle County residents began exploring ways to connect the existing Hennepin and Illinois & Michigan Canal state trails.
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 ...
This is a list of rivers in the U.S. state of Illinois: By drainage basin. Gulf of Mexico. ... Fox River (Illinois River tributary), northern Illinois;