Shawnee National Forest Snakes: Should you be concerned? Shawnee National Forest snakes have been a big topic lately on social media! I’m sure I have helped make it a topic, too. I post photos and videos of snakes I encounter on my hiking and biking adventures around...
Hiking with Shawn’s Safety Guide Series: Bears, Wolves, Cougars and Others Shawnee National Forest is a second growth forest. This means that at one time, most of what we know as the forest was once home sites and farming communities until the 1930s-1940s when it...
Hiking with Shawn’s Shawnee Safety Guide Series: Safely Sharing the Trail with Equestrian Users Horses and mules are a common sight along multiple areas of the Shawnee National Forest. There are almost one or two horse campgrounds in every county that the Shawnee...