p II]"Ai #1I director's.r Page THE MEN AND WOMEN of the Indiana Department of Conservation hope you will enjoy Indiana this year. Our state parks, memorials, forests, lakes and rivers offer an abundance of variety and value to you in the constructive use of your leisure time. We invite you to enjoy the recreational facilities and the vacation pleasures to be found at the properties we maintain and in the com- munities nearby. We urge you to enjoy our Conservation properties, appreciate them, and understand how they are supported for present use as well as maintained as our heritage for future Hoosiers. Some of the fascinating opportunities for enjoyment of Indiana are de- scribed or mentioned in this issue of OUTDOOR INDIANA. Many other such opportunities can be discovered by visiting a state park-you can surely acquire an ever-increasing knowledge of our wonderful state by careful observation of the material available at each state park. We are particularly pleased to offer this issue of OUTDOOR INDIANA as a tour and travel edition. This has been made possible through the combined efforts of the Tourist Assistance Council, Indiana Department of Commerce and Public Relations, the many fine people who have contributed the articles and illustrationscontained herein, and the personnel of the several divisions of the Indiana Department of Conservation. Additional copies of this issue, distributed at various places throughout the state to out-of-state travelers as well as to Hoosiers not regularly receiving this magazine, have been procured and made available without cost to the State of Indiana by business and civic organizationsand by individuals as a public service. DONALD E. FOLTZ, Director Indiana Department of Conservation OUTDOOR INDIANA MATTHEW E. WELSH, Governor RICHARD O. RISTINE, Lieutenant Governor Commissioner of Agriculture INDIANA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION Donald E. Foltz, Director, Clinton Commission: Kenneth M. Kunkel, Chairman, Indianapolis John A. Hillenbrand II, Batesville The Hon. Paul D. Ewan, Lafayette Wilbur Yates, Vincennes DIVISIONS AND DIRECTORS Enforcement-Harold D. Raisor Oil and Gas-Homer R. Brown Engineering-Henry C. Prange State Parks-Kenneth R. Cougill Entomology-John J. Favinger Water Resources-Charles H. Bechert Fish and Game-Woodrow W. Fleming Accounting-Harold B. Smith Forestry- Public Relations- Geological Survey-John B. Patton Purchasing-Anthony E. Sheppard CONTENTS ENJOY INDIANA ............................................................ 2 INDIANA'S CHARM AND HOSPITALITY..................... 3 VISITS TO INDIANA'S UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES.... 5 ALONG INDIANA'S ROADS AND HIGHWAYS..................... 11 Two-Day Round Trip from Evansville............................. 11 One-Day Round Trip from Evansville............................ 14 Two-Day Round Trip from Madison................................ 15 1962 CALENDAR OF EVENTS..................................... 16 One-Day Round Trip from Madison............................... 24 Two-Day Round Trip from South Bend............................ 25 One-Day Round Trip from South Bend............................ 27 Two-Day Round Trip from Fort Wayne........................... 27 One-Day Round Trip from Fort Wayne............................ 29 Two-Day Round Trip from Bloomington.......................... 30 One-Day Round Trip from Bloomington......................... 32 Photo Credits: Jesse Lunger-Clinton, Indiana Indianapolis Star and Indianapolis News Respective Colleges and Universities Vol. V, No. 9 OUTDOOR INDIANA March, 1962 Published monthly by the Indiana Department of Conservation, 6th Floor, State Office Building, Indian- apolis 9. Second-class mail privileges authorized at Indianapolis, Indiana. Out-of-state subscription rate $1.50. Change of address should be reported promptly. Permission to reprinf any material in this publica- tion may be granted to responsible parties upon written application to the editor. -W aW Indiana welcomes you with friendly hospitality. Whatever you desire in a vacation, or in the wholesome use of your leisure time, Indiana can satisfy your wants. As Governor, I can assure you a welcome greeting and an enjoyable expe- rience while you travel in Indiana. MATTHEW E. WELSH Governor There is opportunity everywhere in Indiana to enhance the enjoyment of your vacation and your recreation excursions. Our Tourist Assistance Council stands ready to supply the information you can use in taking advantage of these oppor- tunities. RICHARD O. RISTINE Lieutenant Governor The Indiana State Police Trooper, in his distinc- tive uniform, is "Mr. Indiana" to transient visi- tors and new residents. He offers every courtesy and assistance, assuring that hospitality is a continuing characteristic of Hoosierland. The State Police trooper's motto: "A Friend in Deed." COL. JOHN J. BARTON Superintendent Indiana State Police INDIANA'S by CHARLES W.HITE by CHARLES W. WHITE A QUIET, scenic drive south from In- while on this southern trip. Lincoln's dianapolis on Indiana State Highway mother is buried there and there is Lin- 135, for instance, passes through Brown coln memorabilia from which one can County, Salem, Palmyra, and the old gather eyewitness impressions as to state capital at Corydon; thence to how this poverty-burdened family, lived. Mauckport, where for generations, peo- When the Lincolns eventually moved ple crossed the Ohio River by ferry. It is over to Illinois, they went by what was probable that Abraham Lincoln's fam- then a well-travelled log road - "The ily crossed here when they moved to In- old Buffalo trail" - through Vincennes diana from Kentucky. Speaking of Abe, crossing the Wabash River there. Over a tourist might well visit the Nancy on the Illinois side of the Wabash, (In- Hanks Memorial and Lincoln State Park, diana doesn't mind if you spend no more going west of Corydon by U. S. 460, than half an hour out of the state) there March, 1962 OUTDOOR INDIANA * Page 3 is a fine roadside monument showing the show you the spot where the hanging Lincoln family as they must have looked occurred. Each one of the Ohio River on his arduous journey. The buffalo trail towns, such as New Albany, Jefferson- became a log road and now is none other ville, Madison, Vevay, Rising Sun, Au- than U. S. 50, a well-known east-west rora and Lawrenceburg has its fine route. homes built before the Civil War, often Corydon has its famous old State Cap- for river captains. The Shrewsbury itol building where one can see the legis- House at Madison, for instance, is every lative chamber and many of the articles bit as interesting as the more famous our pioneer legislators used. Over at Vin- Lanier Mansion nearby. Or, while at cennes, one can go even farther back Madison, you might want to visit the in Hoosier history than that, visiting "Washingtons." This volunteer fire de- "Grouseland," the fascinating home of partment has been saving homes for well William Henry Harrison, the ex-Virgin- over 100 years and it's considered quite ian, who was Indiana's first territorial an honor to belong to it. governor. (You'll enjoy examining a hole Elsewhere in Indiana, you can see in a window, where angry Indians tried virgin forests, river valleys, and lakes. to shoot the governor, or looking at the There is marvelous hill country scenery secret staircase built to escape possible in the southeastern Whitewater Valley as Indian raids.) And Vincennes, of course, well as Brown County. Every lover of is the site of a famous Revolutionary rural scenery should visit Owen Coun- War event, the storming of Fort Sack- ty west of Bloomington, called "Sweet ville by George Rogers Clark and his Owen" by its residents. Or maybe you men, commemorated, now, by a beauti- just like to look at fine farms and the ful Federal Memorial and Museum. thriving cattle-the real wealth of In- diana's countryside. Straight across Cen- Some of the charm of such a trip into tral Indiana is some of the best corn land the earlier settled part of Indiana is, in the world. Big barns, well-painted however, not so much in monuments and houses, and thriving livestock tell their historic shrines as in the scenery itself, own story. A visit to one of Indiana's the old houses along the road, and the State Universities or one of the many quaint little towns. People still have time private institutions of learning--Wa- to loaf in courthouse yards down there bash, DePauw, Earlham, Hanover - to and pass the time of day with visitors. name only a few, can be fascinating and (Nobody is a "stranger" in Indiana.) somehow refreshing. Walk into the drug store in such a town Northern Indiana is fascinating in any and you may still see old-fashioned sar- season of the year. Here you may enjoy saparilla containers, or you may sip a the beaches and sand dunes along Lake soda at one of those Gay Nineties tables Michigan and the water sports at beauti- with iron legs and sit on chairs framed in ful lakes, rivers, and streams so abun- heavy curlicue wire. You'll enjoy casual dant in this region. Indiana has thou- conversation about the weather, politics sands of lakes and streams, which are yet and, of course, basketball. Almost every to be explored by many anglers, and smaller Indiana town has its own bit of offers some of the best fishing in the history to be proud of. At Salem, for Midwest. example, they may tell you about the In Indiana, everybody has time for first known U. S. train robbery which you; food and accommodations are good was staged there long ago by the infa- and the roads are well-maintained. Just mous Reno brothers; they can, in fact, start in any direction and enjoy yourself. Page 4 * OUTDOOR INDIANA March, 1962 UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES by PAT REDMAN THERE'S something about a college cam- pus that lifts the spirit and renews one's faith in the tomorrows of this troubled world. Maybe it's the sight of eager young students pouring out of a sedate old building where generations of students have prepared themselves to preserve our Democracy.