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Mississippi Palisades
The Mississippi Palisades Savanna is a unique and beautiful natural area located in northwestern Illinois. It is a large, open grassland with rolling hills and steep bluffs overlooking the Mississippi River. The area is home to a variety of wildlife, including white-tailed deer, wild turkeys, and bald eagles. The savanna is also home to a variety of rare and endangered plant species, including the federally endangered prairie bush clover. The area is managed by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources and is open to the public for hiking, bird watching, and other recreational activities.
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- Hunting Nearby (within 20 miles)
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User Reviews
Jacob Ringler
Beautiful view, we arrived early - around 7am during the week and had a wonderful time. We hiked around 10 miles, mostly on the scenic and more difficult southern routes before trying out some of the northern trails. We hike on a fairly regular basis and did not have any issues though heavy rain would have made it more challenging as well as having any sort of balance issues as there are some steep areas. We only encountered 5 other hikers total during our trip making it very peaceful. It was a little over a 2 hour drive for us (from the Chicagoland region) but absolutely worth it!
Heather Lock
The state park is beautiful, plenty of picnic tables and places for large groups or spots to get "away " from others. Trails looked to be well maintained , and the campground in spots looked like plenty of room between sites. I tent camped there and our spot was great !
Gordon Shaffer
Mississippi Palisades State Park is a lovely park overlooking the river. It is well maintained, nice green spaces, woods with trails & views of the River, picnic areas, clean restrooms, and rock climbing. We're hikers, so we combined Sentinel, Pine, and Sunset. Maps are at the rangers office. There were some wider paths, but I liked that most of the trails were narrow "goat-paths", especially, leading to lookout on Sentinel and all of Sunset. Pine is the longest and leads to the Twin Sisters. We did 4.6 miles between them all, and ended the day very tired.
Alexandria
Truly amazing. The trails are on the campsite and in the State Park. The flowers, mushrooms, frogs, and bird songs labor day weekend were magically. Bathroom/showers were very clean and the hosts were friendly.
Maria Bernal
Mississippi Palisades is a beautiful state park. You can find wild flowers everywhere. Lots of good trails and overlooks to just sit and enjoy the views of the Mississippi River. Ozzie's has the best view at sunset. The campground has many sites, large and leveled. Some with partial or no shade, however. We've camped here many times and it's almost always full, yet pleasantly quiet and enjoyable. The restrooms are clean and in decent shape. The drawbacks: The mosquitoes do tend to get bad in the evening and there is little to no signal in most areas of the campground.