Starved Rock State Park is a state park in the U.S. state of Illinois, characterized by the many canyons within its 2,630 acres. Located just southeast of the village of Utica, in Deer Park Township,
Starved Rock, a National Historic Landmark, as viewed from the north side of the Illinois River, and the Illinois Waterway channel.
St. Louis Canyon waterfall
Portrait of René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, who built the first French settlement in northern Illinois
Ferdinand Walther constructed the Starved Rock Hotel for his resort, seen here c. 1905, which no longer exists. In 1911 he sold the resort to the State of Illinois. The "rock" is the bluff in the upper right.
Buffalo Rock State Park & Effigy Tumuli is an Illinois state park on 298 acres in LaSalle County, Illinois, United States. The park sits across the Illinois River from Starved Rock State Park, just so
An American Bison Grazing
A picnic shelter with a stone fireplace