100 Nature Walks in Missouri

By Alan McPherson

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1889899003
• ISBN13: 9781889899008
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: Cache River Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

A well-balanced mix of popular and less-known hiking places

Focusing on the Southern Illinois hiking opportunities, Alan McPherson has a superabundance of destinations to choose from. Listing fifty of them effectively hits most of the more popular destinations, but also allows for a healthy listing of not-so-well-known places. This makes Fifty Nature Walks in Southern Illinois a book distinct from most others (about Illinois Hiking). If you frequently hike in Illinois, this is definitely a book worth having in your library, especially if you live in or near southern Illinois. If you don't hike in Illinois very often, you might prefer a more general Illinois hiking guidebook, that highlights notable destinations across the entire state. This book provides trail maps for each destination, several pictures throughout the book, and two maps at the beginning of the book that pinpoint each destination on a regional map of southern Illinois. Trail distances and difficulty are noted with each description. Directions to each area are provided as well, along with interesting insights about the uniqueness of each locale. Back Cover Description: Southern Illinois is one of the relatively undiscovered natural areas in the United States. Unfortunately, many, have stereotypically, envisioned Illinois as a vast sea of agricultural flat-lands. While this may be true for some parts of Illinois, the tip of Illinois benefits from the scenic interior plateau as it stretches from the Mississippi to the Ohio River. There is a wealth of natural beauty in Southern Illinois, exemplified by the Ozark hills, natural rock formations, bluffs, ravines, streams, numerous lakes, swamps, sloughs, and the great Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. This book details ample recreational opportunities for the reader for years to come. The nature walks listed range from the simple of the kind that require little exertion to the difficult and strenuous that require many miles of travel and are for the more experienced hiker. Most nature walks are reasonably traversed in a few hours or less. Let Fifty Nature Walks in Southern Illinois help you experience the wonders of this fabulous area. Alan McPherson has taken the opportunity to catalogue fifty locales in Illinois in a similar way to which he has done in southern Indiana (Nature Walks in Southern Indiana). In southern Illinois McPherson documents over one-hundred actual hikes within these locales, all of which are open for public use. Alan is a naturalist and the author of several successful books relating to nature and hiking in Florida, southern and northern Indiana, and California. He has master's degrees in natural resources, park and recreational administration and alternative education. Alan has personally hiked the trails in this book. Most of all, Alan loves nature and wants you to enjoy it as well, and to protect it for future generations.