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Mountain Fair is a summer arts and music fair held annually in Sopris Park in Carbondale, Colorado.It has been held annually during the last weekend of July since 1972. [1] [2] [3] Each year between 15,000 and 20,000 people attend the event over the course of the three days that it is held.
Carbondale's largest annual event is the summer arts and music festival, Mountain Fair held in Sopris Park. The event has annual attendance between 18,000 and 20,000 people over the three days of which it is held, being nearly triple the population of Carbondale. [ 8 ]
Peabody River State Fish and Wildlife Area is an Illinois state park on 2,200 acres (890 ha) in Randolph County, Illinois, United States. It is built on reclaimed mines worked by the Peabody Coal Company from the late 1950s to the late 1980s.
Mount Sopris is a twin-summit mountain in the northwestern Elk Mountains range of the Rocky Mountains of North America.The prominent 12,965-foot (3,952 m) mountain is located in the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness of White River National Forest, 6.6 miles (10.7 km) north by northeast (bearing 30°) of the community of Redstone in Pitkin County, Colorado, United States.
Kellart Lake (reservoir), near Cissna Park, Iroquois County. 40°36′08″N 87°53′17″W / 40.60222°N 87.88806°W / 40.60222; -87.88806 Kidd Lake , Monroe County
A 10-horsepower boating limit is enforced throughout the park. 16.5 miles (27 km) of trails offer challenges to hikers, horseback riders, and mountain bikers. There are three primitive campgrounds. [1] [2] The Illinois DNR manages sections of the park for the hunting of deer, upland birds such as doves, pheasants, and wild turkey, and waterfowl.
Sopris National Forest was established by the U.S. Forest Service in Colorado on April 26, 1909, with 655,360 acres (2,652.1 km 2). On August 7, 1920, the entire forest was transferred to Holy Cross National Forest and the name was discontinued.
Grant Township covers an area of 23.0 square miles (59.5 km 2); of this, 5.4 square miles (14.0 km 2) or 23.52 percent is water. [2] Lakes in this township include Brandenburg Lake, Duck Lake, Fish Lake, Fox Lake, Long Lake, Nippersink Lake, Redhead Lake, Sullivan Lake and Wooster Lake.