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Doea anyone know how much they charge for fishing boat rentals?
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Shady Rest Campground is a delightful campground nearby; float down the rapids of Piney Branch River in a kayak. Lake Murphysboro is a nearby lake that you could explore, and if you need a place to stay Americas Best Value Inn-West Murphysboro/Carbondale is a great choice. This lake is so wonderful. Kinkaid Creek is a brilliant local stream; a lake nearby is Turkey Bayou. Not far from Kinkaid Lake you get some nice water scenery at Crisenberry Dam; if you came
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| | for an overnight stay Water Lily Campground is a wonderful place to camp.
Kinkaid Lake is a reasonably wet place ordinarily with a lot of precipitation; of all the months in a year May is the one with the most rain while January is usually the driest month. For the period of the warmest time of the year at Kinkaid Lake highs are mostly in the 90's. For the duration of the dark hours of summer temperatures sink down into the 60's. High temperatures throughout | |
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the wintertime are normally in the 30's; winter nights come with lows in the 20's to Kinkaid Lake.
You'll wish for more hours in a day to enjoy all the fun stuff at Kinkaid Lake. A great nearby hotel is Econo Lodge Inn & Suites Carbondale, and Kinkaid Lake is a location with many visitors from Carbondale.
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Coordinates:
Latitude: 37.77778
Longitude: -89.45389
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Piney Branch River, Jackson & Randolph CountyCounty, 14 miles away
Class III-IV - 2 miles long (Piney Creek Ravine) |
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Pine Hills Campground
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Pine Hills Campground is the place to go when exploring the Shawnee National Forest. Finding the campground can be difficult, but easy if you have a topographic atlas. It is located adjacent to Illinois largest wilderness complex, nothing significant on a grand scale, but a world away from the madness of Chicago at the opposite end of the state. It is between ILL routes 3 and 127 between Grand Tower and Trail of Tears state forest. I'm sorry to say I cannot share the best site in the campsround, but will probably find it yourself without much effort. It is at the back of the loop adjacent to the stream. I basically gave it away, but good hunting still! Actually, it can be difficult to find, but well worth the solitude. Good wildlife viewing in the area, especially near the LaRue Swamp area- many hawks can be seen in this perennial spring fed wetland. It is the Mississippi River Valley in a natural state- a remnant of it, at least. ... |
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