Trail Guides & Visitor Resources

The following links are the official Hiking with Shawn’s Trail Guide Series guides for hiking and enjoying southern Illinois outdoors. The guides are separated by the East Side and West Side of the state. The Resources menu are a combination of Hiking with Shawn articles and third-party website content that will help you enjoy your outdoor experience, better! Hiking with Shawn is in no way responsible for the content of linked third-party websites. This section of the page is always updated on a weekly basis, please check back soon!

Trail Guides Directory

Click each tab for available trail guides for the Shawnee National Forest and local state parks.

Resource Directory

Click each tab for the resources for outdoor recreation, safety, gear and more.

Shawnee National Forest Map

The following map depicts ‘Points of Interest’ locations along the Shawnee National Forest and southern Illinois state-managed public land. This map is maintained by third-party users. Hiking with Shawn does not maintain this map but we do recommend following the ‘Points of Interest’ locations on it. This map will update upon reloading the page when the map points are updated by its contributors.

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