Illinois Travel Guide 2008 - (Page 35) 41⁄ 2 stars by Golf Digest), the Seasons Lodge & Fairway Condominiums at Rend Lake Golf Course and the state-of-the-art Rend Lake Shooting Complex, offering trap and skeet fields along with a sporting clay range. Across the lake is the Rend Lake Resort, a hotel and conference center that offers sport fishing, boating, water skiing, biking, swimming or just relaxing on the beach. Go horseback riding, hiking or birding in the forest of Wayne Fitzgerrell State Recreation Area, which overlooks Rend Lake. Also at Rend Lake is the state-run Southern Illinois Art & Artisans Center, where the works of more than 850 Illinois artists are displayed and sold. The shop is also a venue for workshops, artist demonstrations and festivals. where you can drive with towering bluffs on one side of the road and the Mighty Mississippi River on the other. Or hop on the Sam Vadalabene Bike Trail, a 20mile paved path that winds alongside the Mississippi between Alton and Pere Marquette State Park in Grafton (the largest state park in Illinois). Don’t miss the mural of the Piasa Bird, a local Native American legend, painted on the side of a cliff in Alton. Turn back time in the historic town SOUTHWEST of Elsah, noted for its tidy brick cottages and English gardens. Meeting of the Great Rivers Head to the Lewis & Clark InterNational Scenic Byway, between pretive Center in Hartford Alton and Grafton and see Camp River Dubois, The Meeting of the Great Rivers the point of departure for the National Scenic Byway offers 33 famed explorers’ history makmiles of majestic views with soaring ing expedition. During the limestone cliffs, native wildlife winter observe bald eagles and quaint towns leading to the from eight stories up atop the confluence of the Mississippi, Illinois Melvin Price Locks & Dam on the and Missouri rivers. The byway is espeCO UR Upper Mississippi River, near the cially scenic along Route 100, between TE SY VB C OF THE AL NAL National Great Rivers Museum. the towns of Alton and Grafton, TON RE GIO MARK PALMER Now that you’re acquainted, you may be inspired to hit the road and explore the the Seven Wonders for yourself. We’ve made it easy. Many of them are featured attractions in 3-Day Getaways you can check out at www.enjoyillinois.com. 800/2CONNECT ILLINOIS. MILE AFTER MAGNIFICENT MILE. 35 http://www.enjoyillinois.com http://www.embassysuiteseastpeoria.com
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