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Great Rivers Auto Tour DISCOVERY TRAILS # 1 DISCOVERY TRAILS # 1 Outdoor displays at Lewis and Clark State Historic Site The communities, state parks and historic sites included in this tour offer a “great get-away vacation” to some of the most scenic and historic places in Illinois and the Midwest. This is where the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail begins. Where you can relive history and discover America the Beautiful as you circle on and off the trail in Illinois. LEWIS & CLARK ILLINOIS DISCOVERY TRAILS PARTNERS This brochure funded in part by our program partners Vandalia, Illinois DISCOVER! DISCOVER! VandaliaIllinois.com Greater Metropolis Convention & Visitors Bureau Hartford • Wood River • Alton • Vandalia Hartford • Wood River • Alton • Vandalia MetropolisTourism.com Ohio River Scenic Byway ORSB-Illinois.com Friends of Fort Massac State Park facebook.com/pages/ Friends_of_Fort_Massac Lewis and Clark Society of America campdubois.com/html/society.html HIT THE TRAIL HIT THE TRAIL TO ADVENTURE! TO ADVENTURE! nps.gov/lecl lewisandclark.org lewisandclark.org/ chapters/illini Funded in part by the Lewis & Clark Trail Heritage Foundation from the Lewis & Clark Trail Stewardship Endowment: A National Council of the Lewis & Clark Expedition Bicentennial Legacy Project. Go to: LCGreatRivers.org Go to: LCGreatRivers.org Link up to Great Vacation Opportunities! Link up to Great Vacation Opportunities! DISCOVERY TRAILS # 1 MEETING OF THE 55 M I 100 GREAT RIVERS SCENIC S S I BYWAY S S HISTORICAL NATIONAL I P P 16 185 ROAD SCENIC BYWAY Lewis and Clark State Historic Site in Hartford The Madonna of the Trail statue at Vandalia National Road history in Vandalia The National Road Interpretive Center in Vandalia I R I V E Grafton R Alton Vandalia An wide array of attractions pretive center for the Meeting and Civil War Legacy Trail, the Byway and visitors can expe - Brussels Wooodod RRiveriver 70 Hartford EEdwardsvilledwardsville awaits visitors in the East St. of the Great Rivers Scenic Lincoln Douglas Square where rience the area’s heritage at the ER RIV Granite City Louis area. They include the Byway, a 33-mile stretch of the Abraham Lincoln and Stephen National Road Interpretive RI U 51 SO Collinsville IS Frank Holten State Park, the Great River Road Scenic Byway Douglas had their final debate, Center, the Fayette County M EEASTAST S T. LLOUISOUIS Cahokia Gateway Geyser and the filled with natural and historic and the Confederate Prison Museum and the historic 80 BBellevilleelleville 64 Malcolm M. Martin Memorial scenic wonders. The Lewis and Cemetery. downtown district. Vandalia is 57 M I Park. The Greater St. Louis & Clark State Historic Site where Abraham Lincoln S 3 15 72 S I S Upriver from Alton at 55 S GREAT RIVER Air & Space Museum and the includes the Lewis & Clark began his political career, gave I 70 P ROAD SCENIC P I Grafton are great outdoor BYWAY 64 Cahokia Courthouse State Interpretive Center with a full- R his first anti-slavery speeches IV E 57 adventures at the Pere Mar - R ILLINOIS Historic Site are located in scale replica of the Lewis & and debated Stephan A. Dou - Cahokia . Visitors can see Clark Expedition’s keelboat, a quette State Park and Visitors glas. The city houses a unique the Cahokia Mounds State re-constructed Camp River Center. The Grafton area of - Lincoln Collection and visi - From 1803 to 1806 Lewis & Clark Historic Site in Collinsville Dubois, their Winter Camp fers river cruises, parasailing tors can take in the pictur - explored America the Beautiful. or Horseshoe Lake State Park from 1803-04, and exhibits and awesome scenic vistas esque scenery at Lincoln Park This year, you can too. in Granite City . portraying the legacy of Corps over the Mississippi, zip lines across from the Old State HIT THE TRAIL TO ADVENTURE! of Discovery who in 1804 ven - in the woodlands, a waterpark, Capitol. Kids will enjoy the Upriver at the mouth of the tured into the vast wilderness and the Mississippi River State huge fire-breathing Kaskaskia Go to: LCG reatRivers.org Missouri River, Hartford and beyond the Mississippi. Camp Fish and Wildlife Area, plus an Dragon sculpture adjacent to Wood River rightfully claim River Dubois is temporarily outstanding antiques district US 40. The massive Carlyle their designation as Site Num - and wineries. Historical reenactments at Lewis and Clark State Historic Site closed for repairs, but tours of Lake Fish and Wildlife Area is ber 1 on the Lewis & Clark the cabins and area around the south of the city. National Historic Trail, the Driving east on I-70 to camp are available.The Hart - Vandalia , vacationers will “Point of Departure” for the ford area also has great scenic Returning west to St. Louis Corps of Discovery. Hartford is be inspired by one of the this loop tour includes hiking and biking trails along 12 Madonna of the Trail marked by the inspiring 150 the mighty rivers. Edwardsville that features foot high Confluence Tower sculptures honoring pioneer- the Children’s Museum, where visitors get a spectacular Nearby Alton has an array of era mothers erected in 1928 the historic 1820 Colonel view of the Missouri and attractions including the on the historic Vandalia Benjamin Stephenson House, Mississippi River Confluence. Melvin Price Lock and Dam Statehouse State Historic Site. the Watershed Nature Center, The tower’s welcome center and National Great Rivers Mu - Vandalia is on the Historic plus one hundred miles also serves as the gateway inter - seum, the Alton Museum of National Road Scenic of bikeways on the Madison History and Art, Alton’s Lincoln County Bike Trails..
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