Shawnee National Forest

There are leisure hikes, sight-seeing hikes and hikes you go on for a little bit of exercise. This twelve-mile hike is none of those. It's not for the beginner.

There aren't many locations that allow you to walk up to the edge of a waterfall, but that's exactly what's possible in the Illinois Ozarks.

This was so funny to me. I could only imagine how theses got lost in the first place. The possibilities are endless, and all hilarious.

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