(WSIL) -- Bi-annually the Shawnee National Forest closes Forest Service Road No. 345, also known as Snake Road, to help ensure safe crossing for several species of snakes and amphibians during ...

(WSIL) -- As we enter the winter season the Shawnee National Forest announces the following annual seasonal closures that will be in effect across the Forest. Seasonal Forest Road closure will be ...

We didn’t throw a dart at a map to choose the Shawnee National Forest as our road-trip destination this year, but we might as well have. I was completely unfamiliar with the 290,000-acre wood ...

It's time again for one of the Midwest's oddest (and, frankly, creepiest) road closures. Shawnee National Forest officials on Sept. 1 will close Forest Service Road No. 345, and keep it shut down ...

In the early 1970s the Forest Service began closing Snake Road for three weeks in spring and fall to protect the migrating creatures, Sue Hirsch, a public affairs specialist at Shawnee National ...

HARRISBURG — The Shawnee National Forest is closing Forest Service Road No. 345, also known as Snake Road, to help ensure safe crossing for several species of snakes and amphibians ...

WGN Radio’s Dave Plier talks to Carol Hoffman of the Shawnee Forest Country Southernmost Illinois Tourism Bureau about The Shawnee Challenge, ... Shawnee National Forest, Garden of the Gods, The Wine ...

ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - The Shawnee National Forest in Southern Illinois sits between the Ohio River and Mississippi River and home to oak and hickory forests, along with wetlands, grasslands, canyons ...

CARBONDALE, Ill. -- A rock slide in the Shawnee National Forest has blocked a road with boulders, trees and slabs of stone the size of pianos. Forest Service officials said Thursday they don't ...

HARRISBURG, Ill. (AP) _ The Shawnee National Forest in southern Illinois is closing a roadway so snakes and amphibians can safely migrate from limestone bluffs to a nearby swamp. The 2 {-mile (3.22… ...