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The beauty of Lake Murphysboro is reason enough to stop by. Lake Murphysboro is great enough to spend more than a day at, Big Oak Campground is a great local campground, and an afternoon playing golf at Jackson Country Club is always a bliss. Camping at Shady Rest Campground is always a pleasant experience, and if you need a place to stay Carbondale Super 8 Motel is a tremendous choice. Lake Murphysboro regularly gets a great deal of rain; May is the month that
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So much fun stuff right next door to Lake Murphysboro, absolutely phenomenal. Dry warm beds await you at Econo Lodge Carbondale. Lakes are brilliant; Borgsmiller Lake is a lake that's in the vicinity of Lake Murphysboro. Some of the water nearby flows, like Jones Quarry Creek, and if you don't mind getting soaked, you can always go whitewater paddling on Little Grassy Creek. Whitewater paddling | |
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is great on Piney Branch River.
This lake is so wonderful. Not far from Lake Murphysboro, you'll locate Borgsmiller Lake which is a delightful lake, and you'll most likely meet some folks from Carbondale here. Throughout the months
of summer at Lake Murphysboro temperatures are mostly in the 90's. Summer nighttime lows sink down to the 60's. Through the winter this place gets highs in the 30's with winter lows in the 20's overnight here at Lake Murphysboro.
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Coordinates:
Latitude: 37.77306
Longitude: -89.38
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Little Grassy Creek, Williamson CountyCounty, 18 miles away
Class II-IV - 0.2 miles long (Play Section) |
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Piney Branch River, Jackson & Randolph CountyCounty, 19 miles away
Class III-IV - 2 miles long (Piney Creek Ravine) |
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Kinkaid Lake
 | Doea anyone know how much they charge for fishing boat rentals?...Would love to find more info about pontoon rentals or boats and where there locations are.... |
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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12 miles away
