This park is fantastic! It is well maintained and safe for kids. There are three playgrounds…read more The bike trails are the best around! If you are hiking on the trails don't go when it's damp because they are extremely slick. Some of the rv sites are small but workable. The staff is extremely friendly and helpful. My biggest concern is the front gate. It is locked with a chain and padlock so you have to get out of your vehicle to unlock it open the gate and drive through then get back out to close it and lock it. The lock numbers are 5 font so hard to see and it sticks sometimes which is so fun when raining. I felt so vulnerable doing this after coming back from visiting family. They really need an automated gate!

Awesome place to go and take your family. So clean. I spent my childhood there…read more Rode on many trails in my time. The park has come a long way since I ran through there. I was raised right behind scales so that was the hang out spot.

This hidden and narrow park is under a high bluff in Rockport, along the Ohio River. You'll first…read morenotice a staircase leading up the side of the bluff where visitors can climb up to get a view (its a bit narrow, rugged, and warping with time, so use your discretion for safety). The stairs are falling apart, so I would not recommend it for children. Beside it is the Lankford Cave, home to the first settlers of Rockport in 1808. It's a great spot to picnic, bike, and relax. There are nice (and newer looking) picnic tables right along the river, so close you can dip your toes in. *There are no bathrooms here. *There are trash cans. *Quiet park. *Free to visit. *Parking is limited.

This is a great asset to Evansville. This is one of the oldest old growth forests in an urban…read morecommunity. Great hiking trails along the Wabash and Erie Canal, a great nature center, and a maple syrup festival. I recommend getting the family membership.

There are two things we look for when we travel. 1) Brewhouses and 2) Parks. We found both in…read moreEvansville, and Wesselman Woods is an amazing place, even though our visit was cut short. It's a bit off the beaten path, as you have to go through a residential area and then past another park/sports complex, but it's worth the drive. The parking area is next to a community recycling center, which I think is appropriate because anything that's returned there isn't getting put in a landfill or thrown out into the wilderness. When you enter the park there is a heavily-treed path you follow to the Visitor's Center. For being located near a large city you'd think that the park would be pretty open...exposed....but that's not the case. This park is SO green and you can't even tell where the Visitor's Center is until you're almost directly in front of it. That Visitor's Center has quite a few displays (plant and animal) for you to peruse before you go out into the wilderness. The part I liked the best was the curved display that looked out onto an area that a variety of birds frequent, along with informational plaques. I could have spent hours in that room alone. The cost to walk the trails is $5 per person. We were advised that we should apply some mosquito repellent because it had rained pretty heavily during the previous couple of days and, as a result, the mosquitoes were pretty thick. Well, I'm here to tell you, "the mosquitoes were pretty thick" doesn't even come close to describing the density of the mosquito population that day. Nowhere Near. What started out as about a 1 1/2 to 2 mile walk turned into a quickly paced just-short-of-a-run 20 minute journey through what I'm going to call the Mosquito Jungle. These little buggers weren't just everywhere, they were EVERYWHERE, including places they shouldn't/didn't have the right /I never gave them permission for. It was crazy. We spent more time swatting these bastages than we did anything else. My wife and I took turns covering each other's back. While we DID apply more than enough repellent, these were the most defiant insects I'd ever seen. They were flocking to us like pre-pubescent teen to a Justin Bieber concert, and all we did was walk through the door. What we were able to see of the nature preserve was beautiful. The trails are very clearly marked and directional signs are never too far out of sight (which came in handy as we tried to frantically find out way back to non-mosquito-infected territory), and the trails themselves were very well maintained. The next time we're in Evansville we plan visiting again (hopefully NOT after a monsoon) so we can take our time to better enjoy the plant and wildlife without being attacked. It really is a beautiful place.

After living in Tell City my whole life I realized I had never been to see the Overlook Park to see…read morethe damn. It's always been closed or I was just too busy. Well with Covid there wasn't a whole lot to do we decided to take a drive to show my wife around my home town and around the county. It was a little wet that day and we had my parents, but we did walk back to see the overlook. We didn't do any trails, but it was a beautiful afternoon for a quick walk and to view the damn. There are a couple of benches and you can read some info about the Eagles and history of the damn.

A great view of the Cannelton Dam. Some easy to hike short trails but not the best markings on the…read moretrails. The Bob Rambottom trail needs some maintenance and although it dead ends, the end is not marked. Some folks have beat their own trails so it easy to get off trail and not realize. Dogs allowed. They have clean toilets. There are several picnic shelters.

My family and I met up with my wife's friend and her family towards Owensboro Kentucky this…read moreweekend. They took us over to the Davises county fish and game for our first visit and they are members. This is a wonderful attraction with much fun things to do we spent a lot of time at their beach with the lake water we played games so I took my daughters to swing sets and slides we cooked out we walked around the facility they have fireworks at night time this is just an excellent establishment that when we go back we will have to visit for sure. My favorite part was definitely riding on the golf cart listen to some jams and just driving around having a great time and seeing the sights

Great park! Well marked and maintained trails for lone hikers and mountain bikers. My dog and I…read moreenjoyed my time here a couple of weeks back

Completely free to visit! There is a large parking lot at the Memorial Hall and also some parking…read morecloser to the living history farm. The Memorial Hall is a good place to start with a short educational video, some small exhibits, and the gift shop. The Memorial Visitor Center closes from 12-1 pm for lunch, so plan accordingly if you need to use the nice clean bathrooms or fill your water bottle. The park includes a pioneer cemetery, a living history farm, a memorial to the Lincoln family cabin, and some short trails. When we visited (late May) on a weekday morning, there were no historical interpreters at the living history farm, and the buildings were all locked. I'm not sure when the living history farm is functional, but it looks like it would be fun. I highly recommend the Trail of Twelve Stones, which leads you through the peaceful woods along a path which houses 12 stones from significant locations in Lincoln's life.

Abraham Lincoln is great and almost universally identified as the greatest president ever. I've…read morebeen to his birth site in Kentucky, His tomb, Presidential Library and home in Illinois and his memorial and place of death in Washington DC. This was basically my last spot in my pilgrimage to all things Lincoln. This was probably the least interesting of all the sites that I listed above, The visitor's center has a small gift shop, the usual National Park rangers to give you maps and knowledge and a theatre to watch a little film about the Honest One himself. From there you walk up to the Pioneer Cemetery where there is a memorial for Abe's mother Nancy who is buried somewhere near that spot. She died of milk sickness all because a cow ate a snakeroot plant! Thank God for modern medicine! Anyway from there you walk up to replica of the cabin they would have lived in and an active farm that looks as it would have when Lincoln was there. The last spot is a spring that the Lincoln's would have carried water from. All in all it was a mile walk each way. You can drive closer to some of these spots as well if you lack feet. All in all I'm glad the place exists but it's not a must do spot for the casual history buff.

Good time for the kids, everything seemed well kept except the blow up obstacle course. That sadly…read morewas barely being held together with duck tape... very unsafe.

Very crowded and not accessible for handicapped people. Kids loved it. Birthday parties makes for a…read moregood experience.