This is a traditional park and grab. There is room to pull off the road on both sides. It's busy during peak times of the day. Be careful. You'll find a micro container that holds a micro log. BYOPen
You may want to stop long enough to get a photo of the World's Largest Catsup Bottle. In August of 2002 it was named to the National Register of Historic Places. The CSX train runs through there too.
The Mississippi River forms the western boundary in Madison County. Streams/creeks are as important today as watersheds as they were for the early settlers. Illinois became a state in 1818. The most important creeks in Madison County are the "Canteen Creek", Sugar Creek, Silver Creek, Cahokia Creek, Judy's Creek, Paddock's Creek, Indian Creek, Great and Little Piasa, Wood River (east and west forks). Early settlers would find these streams and settle around them. Water is life! Jacques Cousteau put it this way; “We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.”
Madison County's first resident was Colonel Samuel Judy, 1773 – 1838. He lived in Glen Carbon near Judy's Creek. In 1814-1815, Judy served in the Illinois Territorial Council of the Illinois Territorial Legislature.