ABOUT THE PARK:
Salt Lick Point Land in addition to Water Reserve
DIRECTIONS:
38.302552, -90.308785
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| Salt Lick Trail Parking |
TRAIL MAP:
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| Trail map at the kiosk. |
Pink - Salt Lick Trail 1.8 miles
Green - Newman Trail 1.9 miles
White - mortal property
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HIKE DISTANCE: 5.5 miles
THE HIKE:
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| Because the views on the Salt Lick Trail would accept been obscured past times fog when I arrived, I headed left to the Johnson Trail showtime in addition to would produce the Salt Like Trail last, returning at this point. |
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| Parking for the Johnson Trail across the way. |
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| The trail is non blazed exactly in that place are mileage signs on trees. |
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| Some plants along the trail are named. From what I empathize the flowers are gorgeous hither inwards the spring. |
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| Giant boulders scattered around that hold back similar they in all probability tumbled downwards from inwards a higher house long ago. |
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| Illinois farmland off to the left. |
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| The bluffs upward above. That is where nosotros would provide afterwards on the Salt Lick Trail. |
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| The trail comes out on to a champaign in addition to looks similar it continues along the perimeter to the correct exactly ... |
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| ... backing upward a bit, a postal service marks a footpath to the correct that ends upward at the same house inwards the champaign where continuing along the champaign would. |
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| Now on to the Newman Trail require ahead. |
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| This trail is blazed light-green where the other trails are non blazed. |
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| The showtime of thirteen creek crossings. Yes, I counted in addition to it's thirteen each means exactly they are all slow plenty amongst plenty of rocks to stride on. |
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| The Newman Trail ends ... |
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| ... at a kiosk ... |
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| ... amongst parking for this trail caput to the left inwards the church building parking lot. |
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| Heading dorsum in addition to crossing the creek thirteen to a greater extent than times. |
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| Back at the champaign ... |
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| ... left towards Salt Lick Point, yet on the Newman Trail. |
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| Right to the overlook. |
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| Zooming inwards to a truck on the Jefferson Barracks Bridge over the Mississippi River. |
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| Retracing in addition to keeping require along the overstep of the bluffs on the Salt Lick Trail. |
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| A juvenile red-headed woodpecker. |
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| Cedar Waxwing |
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| Dark-eyed Juno |
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| The trail caput in addition to parking downwards below. |
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| At the bottom, quondam mines. |
