Not Terribly Hot in Terre Haute

The park is a pretty 30 mile drive north of Terre Haute

Sugar Creek cuts through the park.

The sandstone has been etched by the water.

Mary and Kate on the suspension bridge.

Maybe next time we rent kayaks.  Many people were paddling. 

Due to drought, this may have been the driest opportunity to enjoy the rock formations.

On the Rocky Hollow trail in the park's extensive trail system.

Wedge rock fell off the side of the gorge recently.  Within a few thousand years.

Why do they call it "Wedge Rock?"

The scale is deceiving here.  Note the person in the pink shirt.
Also note that there are at least 4 huge outcroppings disappearing into the sunlit distance.

Seepage through an iron deposit?

Into the narrows.

The water is 1000 feet deep.  With Alligators.

This section would be completely impassable in high water.

Nature found fault with the right angles of the steps cut into the rock.
Correction in progress.

A walk through the woods away from Rocky Hollow,  this covered bridge allows dry passage over Sugar Creek.

Downstream from the bridge.

The water has worn pockets in the stone.  A perfect jumping spot, but no swimming allowed.
The sign says, "Drownings have occurred."  In higher water, no doubt.

Heading back to the suspension bridge along the north bank of Sugar Creek.

I was there too.

I was scaring the bears away from Mary.

The 3-foot high mine from the 1800's followed a vein of coal down into the earth.  Ugh.
The Indiana Bat has found the shaft to its liking.  
Same for litterbugs.

Steps on another trail we did not follow.
 Lots more to see...we'll have to come back.

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Another part of our Indiana Investigation was seeing this campus.

Kate teaches here.

In the English Department's Building.

Kate's office is behind the second story windows between the trees.

The newly opened Federal Building is a reconditioned Post Office and Courthouse.
Impressive!

Kate teaches a class in the building.

The elevator

I think they left out one part of the metal ornamentation for authenticity.

It is the business school, and this is a classroom, complete with stock ticker.

Just a door to an office.

Second floor hallway

Once courtroom, now presentation hall.

Pretty but not aromatic.

The old Student Union

A multitude of different types of trees enhanced the quad.

A number of the entrances to campus look onto this central fountain.
It beckons playfulness.

A "Yarnstormed" bike.  

Very pretty campus.