Kickapoo State Recreation Area named Illinois’ Top Park by OutsideOnline.Com
At Kickapoo State Recreation Area, you’ll find 22 ponds and access to the Middle Fork River amid 2,842 acres of sycamore and maple forest. There are also launch ramps at nine lakes, and you can angle for large- and smallmouth bass, channel catfish, bluegill, crappie, red ear sunfish, and sizable rainbow trout. Ice fishing is […]
The Pantagraph: Kickapoo State Park Offers a Variety of Activities as the Former Strip Mine Site
OAKWOOD — If variety is the spice of life, then Kickapoo State Recreation Area has an extra helping of jalapeños for those who like variety in their outdoor activities. What makes it more amazing is this outdoors haven is the former site of surface mining. You can expect to see wildlife and wildflowers as well […]