Sheppard Point Trail at Trail of Tears State Park
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- Sheppard Point Trail at Trail of Tears State Park in Missouri. This trail and state park isn't very far from Southern Illinois. We really enjoyed this short but rugged out-and-back hiking trail.
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Trail of Tears State Park is a nice place that I've enjoyed going to multiple times over the last 50 years or so. My dad was from the Cape Girardeau area before moving to Illinois and we went there several times when I was a boy. I've visited the park many times and camped there a few nights, but I've not hiked on the Shepard Point trail before.
Sadly, if I'm not mistaken, that may be the area where James Baughn met his untimely end. It was somewhere at TTSP. RIP James.
There are some big cliffs on the north side by the river overlook deck too. I've been out a ways on that trail before. There is an old quarry up there that is dangerous and off limits because people have fallen there before.
One reason Missouri has nice state parks and conservation areas is because they have a special dedicated sales tax that funds them. I guess it is a worthy thing to spend money on and I would probably support it. The trouble is Missouri has several of these little sales taxes for this and that at the state and local level that add up. Some places in Cape Girardeau, for example, have sales tax rates approaching 10 percent. I know that is the case for some Illinois cities too. Missouri has generally lower property taxes and gas tax, but I don't think their roads are as good as those in Illinois overall. Missouri also has a 3 percent tax on groceries. I think they also have the personal property tax still.
That trail is too much for me. My husband’s Great Grandparents and his brother owned land of the park. The State took it away from them. Two died of suicide over it. Hubby’s Grandma grew up there at the entrance to the park. If you look to your right, you’ll see a blank grassy area where the house used to stand. And then the other family lived about where the conservation building is now.
Wow! That's a crazy story. It's a tough trail!
If Illinois government didn't embezzle so much money, we'd have enough for nicer parks and roads.
You'd think with all the lottery money, gambling revenue, and weed sales they keep touting about in the newspaper, they'd be out of debt.
Missouri is wiser with its finances (except for St Louis). It shows in the well maintained parks.