Download or read book The Complete Guide to Indiana State Parks written by Nathan D. Strange and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-14 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you are looking for a weekend hike in the woods, a family outing, or great locations to study the local flora and fauna, Indiana state parks provide something for everyone. Visiting all 25 state parks in Indiana, Nathan Strange and Matt Williams profile and photograph the features that make Indiana parks beautiful and unique. Each park profile includes an engaging history of the park's origins and interviews with dedicated staff members about their favorite landscapes, wildlife, and adventures available in each park. This complete guidebook also offers extensive descriptions of the best park trails, along with the authors' hiking experiences, helpful maps, and directions. Featuring 109 exquisite full-color photographs and inside facts, The Complete Guide to Indiana State Parks is a must-have for every Hoosier and visitor to the state.
Download or read book Clifty Falls Indiana State Park written by Paul R. Wonning and published by Mossy Feet Books. This book was released on with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clifty Falls Indiana State Park offers visitors excellent hiking, camping, picnicking opportunities as well as serving as a gateway to historic Madison and Jefferson County. Hiking Hikers will find almost 15 miles of hiking trails ranging from rugged to easy. Hike along the rugged Clifty Creek canyon, enjoy delightful woodland wildflowers and bask in the fragrant woodlands. Camping Clifty Fallls State Park campgrounds offer visitors several different camping experiences ranging from modern electric campsites, primitive camping and youth campground facilities. Waterfalls Enjoy the four waterfalls in the park, from majestic Clifty Falls to Little Clifty, Tunnel and Hoffman Falls. Madison - Jefferson County Madison, in Jefferson County, Indiana is one of Indiana's oldest towns and has oodles of historic sites for visitors to learn the fascinating history of this charming town on the Ohio River. The book Clifty Falls State Park can serve as your tourism guide for Madison and Jefferson County. Hiking, camping, waterfall, madison, jefferson county, historical tourism guide, tourism guide
Download or read book McCormick s Creek Indiana State Park written by Paul R. Wonning and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-07 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visitors will find Indiana's first State Park, established in 1916, full of history, hiking, picnicking and other fun outdoor activates. Camp at the campground, luxuriate at Canyon Inn or relax in a family cabin. This tourism and history guide to McCormick's Creek State Park includes a wealth of information about the park, nearby Spencer and Owen County, Indiana. The Owen County area is a wonderful place to spend a family vacation.
Download or read book 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles Cincinnati written by Tammy York and published by Menasha Ridge Press. This book was released on 2014-05-19 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 60 Hikes within 60 Miles: Cincinnati covers the best and oftentimes little-known hiking destinations within 60 miles of the greater Cincinnati area. The hikes were selected based on family friendliness, scenery, and history. Many of the hikes fall between 3 to 5 miles in length, providing parents with a relaxing and revitalizing hike that even little ones can enjoy. Author Tammy York hiked most of the trails with her two young daughters. 60 Hikes within 60 Miles: Cincinnati was created with other parents and newbie hikers in mind, yet it provides plenty of challenging hikes for skilled outdoor adventurers. Trails in this guide cover Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky, and range from easy to difficult.
Download or read book A Visit to Harmonie Indiana State Park written by Paul R. Wonning and published by Mossy Feet Books. This book was released on with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harmonie State Park provides a family friendly vacation destination with great views of the Wabash River, great hiking and wonderful riverside picnicking. An important part of Indiana history, historic New Harmony, Indiana, is just a short distance away. By reading this tourism guide, A Visit to Harmonie Indiana State Park the visitor can enrich their vacation to this wonderful state park. indiana state parks, indiana history, indiana camping, indiana fishing, indiana hiking, new harmony indiana, indiana travel guide
Download or read book A Visit to Falls of the Ohio State Park written by Paul R Wonning and published by Mossy Feet Books. This book was released on with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Falls of the Ohio State Park provides a first class family friendly vacation destination. It also offers an excellent learning experience for kids. Rife with history, Clark County was one of the earliest areas settled in Indiana. A Visit to Falls of the Ohio State Park provides visitors with the information they need to enjoy the park and the surrounding area. indiana state parks, indiana fishing, fossil river, family friendly, indiana travel guide, fossils for kids
Download or read book Road Trip written by Andrea Neal and published by Indiana Historical Society. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bicentennial of Indiana’s statehood in 2016 is the perfect time for Hoosiers of all stripes to hit the road and visit sites that speak to the nineteenth state’s character. In her book, Andrea Neal has selected the top 100 events/historical figures in Indiana history, some well-known like George Rogers Clark, and others obscured by time or memory such as the visit of Marquis de Lafayette to southern Indiana. These highly readable essays and photographs that accompany them feature a tourist site or landmark that in some way brings the subject to life. This will enable interested Hoosiers to travel the entire state to experience history at firsthand. Related activities and sites include nature hikes, museums, markers, monuments, and memorials. The sites appear in chronological order, beginning with the impact of the Ice Age on Indiana and ending with the legacy of the bicentennial itself.
Download or read book A Visit to Clifty Falls Indiana State Park written by Paul R. Wonning and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-09-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perched high on bluffs above the Ohio River, Clifty Falls State Park boasts great hiking, scenic waterfalls and camping at a family friendly campground. Taking its name from the falls on Clifty Creek, the park got its start from 570 acres given to the State by Madison residents. Numerous picnic areas and shelters allow families a good spot to relax while enjoying a picnic meal. Visitors wanting to stay in comfort can book a room at the Clifty Inn. The Inn boasts a restaurant, swimming pool and sitting area that overlooks the river. Hikers can traverse a historic railroad tunnel on one of the trails. The tunnel formed a part of the Madison and Indianapolis Railroad, which went bankrupt before the tunnel saw use. Clifty Falls features over thirteen miles of hiking trails. The park has four waterfalls, most accessible only by trail. The main falls, a sixty foot cascade, is near Clifty Shelter and accessible to picnickers. The Indiana State Park Travel Guide Series will encompass all the family friendly Indiana State Parks. Indiana's State Park system is one of the finest in the United States. With great hiking trails, history, camping and nature, there is something for everyone at a family friendly Indiana State Park.
Download or read book Hoosiers and the American Story written by Madison, James H. and published by Indiana Historical Society. This book was released on 2014-10 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A supplemental textbook for middle and high school students, Hoosiers and the American Story provides intimate views of individuals and places in Indiana set within themes from American history. During the frontier days when Americans battled with and exiled native peoples from the East, Indiana was on the leading edge of America’s westward expansion. As waves of immigrants swept across the Appalachians and eastern waterways, Indiana became established as both a crossroads and as a vital part of Middle America. Indiana’s stories illuminate the history of American agriculture, wars, industrialization, ethnic conflicts, technological improvements, political battles, transportation networks, economic shifts, social welfare initiatives, and more. In so doing, they elucidate large national issues so that students can relate personally to the ideas and events that comprise American history. At the same time, the stories shed light on what it means to be a Hoosier, today and in the past.
Download or read book Gardener s Guide to the Lanceleaf Coreopsis written by Paul R. Wonning and published by Mossy Feet Books. This book was released on 1901 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many native American wildflowers have crossed the line into our gardens and the native perennial Lanceleaf Coreopsis joins this throng. Tough, adaptable and beautiful the Lanceleaf Coreopsis embodies the qualities that allow it to thrive in almost any full sun flower garden condition. Written for gardeners by a gardener Gardener's Guide to the Lanceleaf Coreopsis relates how to grow this beautiful native perennial flower. From seed to division, learn how to propagate this wonderful perennial plant. lanceolata, flower, native, perennial , full sun
Download or read book Wake Up Woods written by Michael A. Homoya and published by . This book was released on 2019-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early in the year, our North American forests come to life as native wildflowers start to push up through patches of snow. With longer days and sunlight streaming down through bare branches of towering trees, life on the forest floor awakens from its winter sleep. Plants such as green dragon, squirrel corn, and bloodroot interact with their pollinators and seed dispersers and rush to create new life before the trees above leaf out and block the sun's rays. Wake Up, Woods showcases the splendor of our warming forests and offers clues to nature's annual springtime floral show as we walk in our parks and wilderness areas, or even in shade gardens around our homes. Readers of Wake Up, Woods will see that Gillian Harris, Michael Homoya and Shane Gibson, through illustrations and text, present a captivating look into our forests' biodiversity, showing how species depend on plants for food and help assure plant reproduction. This book celebrates some of nature's most fascinating moments that happen in forests where we live and play.
Download or read book A Visit to Vincennes Indiana written by Paul R. Wonning and published by Mossy Feet Books. This book was released on with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vincennes, Indiana is steeped in Indiana history. The French established a trading post where the Buffalo Trace crossed the Wabash River in 1732. A Visit to Vincennes, Indiana provides the visitor to Vincennes a convenient tourism guide to the history and attractions of Vincennes, Indiana. The city continues to serve as the county seat of Knox County, Indiana with many things to see and do. Enjoy a road trip to Vincennes to learn its fascinating history. guide, knox, county, local, tourism, road trip
Download or read book Arkansas Waterfalls Guidebook How to Find 133 Spectacular Waterfalls Cascades in the Natural State written by Tim Ernst and published by Tim Ernst Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How to find 200+ spectacular waterfalls & cascades in 'The Natural State'"--Cover.
Download or read book A Visit to Chain o Lakes State Park written by Paul R. Wonning and published by Mossy Feet Books. This book was released on with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Visit to Chain o' Lakes State Park will give the prospective visitor all the information they need to enjoy this wonderful Noble County Indiana State Park in northeastern Indiana.
Download or read book The Wizard King written by Paul R. Wonning and published by Mossy Feet Books. This book was released on with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pirate Kingdom had fallen, foiling Gault’s plan to use it to establish his Wizard Kingdom. Never mind, the evil wizard developed a new plan. Using the chaos created by the pirate king's fall, Gault began weaving the threads together that would comprise his evil magic kingdom. The epic fantasy adventure novel, The Wizard King is the sixth book in the Wizards of the Golden Star series.
Download or read book Pokagon Indiana State Park written by Paul R. Wonning and published by Mossy Feet Books. This book was released on 2022-02-24 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pokagon Indiana State Park provides potential visitors with a complete guide book to the state park, Angola and Steuben County, Indiana. Pokagon State Park Visitors to Pokagon State Park will find a complete package of nature adventures that include hiking, camping, boating, fishing and swimming. Hiking, Camping and Fishing The state park has 11 miles of hiking trails ranging from easy to rugged. Anglers can sail their boats and fish in Lake James and swimmers can bask on the lake's two beaches. Nature Adventures Additional nature adventures include several local nature preserves ranging from water fowl refuges and a place for the buffalo to roam. Angola and Steuben County Readers will find tourism information about nearby Angola and Steuben County. Visitors can visit wineries, an historic movie house and other places of historic interest. Steuben County, Angola, indiana travel, nature preserve, hiking, camping, guide book
Download or read book A History of Time written by Paul R. Wonning and published by Mossy Feet Books. This book was released on with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the fascinating history of time, clocks, calendars and time zones. A History of Time reveals the journal of the development of how humans keep track of time, including daylight saving time. Clock history, calendar history, history of time zones, sundial, hourglass history, daylight saving time
