Hoosier National Forest
Hoosier National Forest
Bedford, IN 47421
Phone:812-275-5987
Fax:812-279-3423
Web: www.fs.fed.us/r9/hoosier
Size: 200,000 acres.
Location:South-central Indiana. Accessible by US 50 and 150; IN 37, 46, 62, and 64. Nearby cities/towns include Bedford, Bloomington, Tell City, and Evansville.
Facilities:5 campgrounds, equestrian camps, group camp, picnic sites, trails (239 miles), lookout tower, scenic drives.
Activities:Camping, hunting, fishing, boating, swimming, hiking, mountain biking, horseback riding, rock collecting, berry picking, mushroom picking.
Special Features:Pioneer Mothers Memorial Forest, 88 acres of virgin old-growth walnut and oak trees; Lick Creek Settlement, site of a town established in 1820 by freed slaves and probable waystation on the Underground Railroad; Lake Monroe, Indiana's largest lake (a reservoir covering 10,750 acres) which abuts the forest's northwest corner.
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