This multi-purpose recreation area is 12 miles south of Carbondale off Giant City Blacktop. Little Grassy Lake and Devil's Kitchen Lake are nearby.
Camping is available year round.
There are picnic tables, fire frills, playground, show houses, flush toilets and a dump station. Shower house available. Giant City Lodge features a restaurant, public lobby and pay phones. The Civilian Conservation Corps built the lodge in the 1930 s. It was the most structurally ambitious project undertaken by President Franklin D. Roosevelt s CCC in Illinois.