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Snake Road
It’s exactly what you think it is… A road full of snakes Southern Illinois has dozens of interesting historical sites, fun ...
WOLF LAKE, Ill. — The U.S. Forest Service is preparing to close roughly three miles of road in southern Illinois due to a snake migration. If you drive 90 miles southeast of St. Louis down Illinois ...
For two months, a more than two-mile stretch of road in southern Illinois is closed due to a yearly snake migration that is not often seen anywhere else in the country. Known as "snake road ...
The bi-annual snake migration in Southern Illinois' Shawnee National Forest ... 1 to Oct. 30, LaRue Road in the forest is closed to cars. Visitors may still travel it on foot.
UNION COUNTY, Ill. (KFVS) - It’s that time of year for the bi-annual closing of a southern Illinois road, which becomes very busy for several species of snakes and amphibians. Forest Service ...
Cottonmouth snakes are one of the most common reptiles seen during the biannual migration of snakes across southern Illinois ... the 2.7-mile-long stretch of road in Shawnee to let the snakes ...
Migrating snakes and amphibians force a forest road to close to vehicles twice a year, according to wildlife authorities in Illinois. Forest Road #345 – better known as Snake Road – winds ...
Twice a year, the road is closed to vehicles due to a snake migration that is not often seen anywhere else in the country. It's a rare and shockingly popular sight in southern Illinois.
But a placed nicknamed "Snake Road" in Southern Illinois takes that title. If you drive 90 miles southeast of St. Louis down Illinois' Great River Road, you'll snake your way into the hills of the ...