Starved Rock

In the last week of July, an outdoor adventure was planned to Starved Rock state park located in Utica, IL. This place is known for the boating, camping, hiking, picnicking, fishing activities. The park has around 15 canyons and many rock formations.

We planned this outing mainly for the hiking activity. A group of 12, nice weather and a nice 4 hours drive, what more can you expect for a wonderful day!! :)

Many didn't know each other in the group, but that didn't stop us from having a nice time. Its a nice unexplainable process which takes place during these kind of situations which really makes each one in the group to automatically tune up to the required frequency band :)

The park had many trails for hiking. I guess we had taken a 4 mile trail after the lunch at a very distinct wooden decorated restaurant. To make things better and interesting, we sometime took our own route to have a path for others to follow ;-) The trail was featured with many water streams, sunset/view points and small bridges. To be frank, the ready made trail with wooden planks stretching the whole trail makes things very easy and less-close-to-the nature experience. But the thick n dense park covers this up!

A very nice canyon attracted us which had a small water falls in the midst. We spent considerable time getting drenched and literally invited others to sing in the same tone of ours;-)

This was just the first outing for this group and we truly enjoyed every bit of it.