Shades State Park

Shades State Park - Pine Hills Nature Preserve

Our favorite Indiana stomping grounds, Shades State Park, and Indiana's oldest and largest nature preserve, Pine Hills. Catfish and I got our feet wet and did some ridge walking in a unique environment, before heading into the heart of the park (to be continued in pt. 2).

Filmed on a GoPro Hero4 Silver.

Shades State Park:

Pine Hills Nature Preserve:

Hiking Turkey Run State Park, Indiana

Explore one of the most beautiful places in Indiana. The park is filled with hollows, gulches, canyons, forest, small caves, creeks and waterfalls.

I visited Turkey Run State Park in mid October during an unusually warm spell, with highs around 80. It also rained heavily for a few hours before my hike, which added to the misty look you see in the video. Almost unreal in person, like something out of a movie.

Trails hiked: 3, 5, 9, 10. These trails took us from the Nature Center where we parked over the suspension bridge, through the Ice Box, Bear Hollow, Falls Canyon, Boulder Canyon, and Rocky Hollow. We also walked off trail along the shores of Sugar Creek, where we saw no one. We saw one deer and heard an owl.

Beth DeSombre -- Crawfordsville, Indiana (Passim).dv

Beth DeSombre sings her song Crawfordsville, Indiana at Club Passim, October 2010.

Gulf Coast Heritage Tours

A visit to a few of the places where the culture of the Gulf Coast was born.