The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-25
Turkey Run Represents
Finest Landscape for
Summer Outings.
CLIFTY FALLS POPULAR
MCCormick'S Creek Canyon
Is Becoming Mecca
for Children.

Nine state parks are ready TO well
come the vacationists in Hoosier-
land, three of which are open for
the first time this year.
The recent additions are Spring
Mil. near Mitchell, with 1000 acres
IN which TO romp: Shakamak, near
JaSonville, and Brown county park,
near Nashville, with the same as.
The six older parks are Turkey
Run, near Marshall, l 800 acres; Nc
Cormick's creek canyon, near Spen-
Ger, 355 acres; Clifty Falls, near
Madison, SIS acres; Pokagon, near
Angola, 100 acres; Muscatatuck,
near North Vernon. ninety acres.
and the Dunes on the south shore
OF Lake Michigan, near Chesterton,
2,210 acres.
Besides the parks. there are thir-
teen other state-owned properties,
making a total acreage Of 28,2S0
acres under control Of the state con-
servation department headed by Di-
rector Richard Lieber.
Turkey Run Popular
These include the state forest at
Henryville, 5040 acres; the Brown
county game preserve, 12500; Kan
kakee marshes, 1900; Tippecanoe
battlefield. Lafayette, twenty-five;
Dean Oak, thirty; Nancy Hanks
burial ground. seventy-fve; Bass
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wasee hatchery, eleven; Tri-Lakes
hatchery, eighteen; Riverside hatch
cry. fifteen; Ayoca hatchery. TWEEN
ty-tWo, and the Corydon statehouse /
and Lanier Home, Madison, a city |
block each.
Turkey Run represents the finest /
OF that interesting landscape for F,
which Sugar Creek is famous and |
has attracted thousands annually. /
The entire area. is heavily wooded /
and there are 295 acres Of virgin .
timber, representing the native /
Hoosier woods Of more than a dozen ,
varieties. Some of these cling TO /
cliffs, created by the deep gorges
made in the glacieral period.
NcCOrmick's Greek Is Mecca
Turkey Run Inn is the first of the
state park hotels. 1t is equipped 10
accommodate $50 overnight guests
and has gained famed for its Sun
day chicken dinners.
McCormick'S Greek has become
the mecca for children. the innyard
there being equipped with a ccm-
plete playground and a children's
pool. There is also a swimming
pool for adults added to this park
by the department in 1928
At Clifty Falls is found the Ohio
river valley at its finest. The view
of the great valley from the head
lands of the park affords a sweeping
panorama with the Indiana and
Kentucky hills rising on either bank
and the river appearing and dis
appearing in wide bend.
C!ifty Inn has front porch which
offers outstanding scenic effects to
the rocking chair vacationist and the
wooded hills have trails to lure the
most ardent tramper.
Potawatomi Inn at PokAgon is the
newest of the hotel ventures and
offers metropolitan service in a
Shorthand setting with plenty of
woodland on one of Indiana's largest
lakes, Lake James.
Nature at It's Finest
Muscatatuck features a rocky
gorge cut by a small tributary of
the Muscatatuck river. with heavily
wooded slopes on either side. The
Inn is a remodeled farm house and
the table there has gained a state
wide reputation.
The Dunes is famed throughout
the land and the Indiana park has
become a playground for Chicago
and Illinois citizens, as we'll as In
dianans and citizens throughout the
United States.
Here nature has presented her |
scenic effects in shifting sands of
hills and dales. Duneside Inn Of ;
fers limited hotel facilities of the
same high quality which prevail at
the other state parks.
Three New State Parks :
The threp new parks are not yet J
fully developed.
Shakamak stretches into three
Greene and Sullivan. | {