Hazlet State Park, Carlyle IL
Camped at Beymer Water Recreation Park, Lakin KS, May 4, 2010
Hazlet State Park, Carlyle IL
- One of the largest campgrounds in the Illinois state park system, Hazlet State Park is located on the largest manmade lake in Illinois. Eldon Hazlet State Recreation Area is a 3,000-acre site on the west shore of Carlyle Lake, a Kaskaskia River impoundment. The site is located 3 miles north of Carlyle and 2 miles east of Illinois Route 127 in Clinton County.
- Verizon cell phone and Broadband service are available here with a strong signal.
- Locate Hazlet State Park on my Night Camps map
- Check the weather here
Nights I've camped here
- Friday, November 12, 2010 - Hazlet State Park, Carlyle IL
- My plan was to hit the road early this morning and beat feet for the Mississippi. But it didn't work out that way. It seems I got distracted by the iPad display at the Frankfort KY Walmart I stayed at last night and decided to buy one before I left {insert grin here}. Image: Virginia Creeper, Red Rock, East Chatham NY, August 23, 2010.
On Food and Freedom
Here I've clipped a few paragraphs from the excellent talk Return to Slavery: Will you be eating China's dust for breakfast? by Billie Best, Executive Director, Regional Farm and Food Project given on April 19, 2006 to the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Ecologic Club - Troy, New York, On the occasion of Ecologic Club launching a campaign to get more local foods into their campus food system.