Beautiful park, with amazing trails. Most of them are easy, to go with the entire family. The ones tha go below, at the river level, are the more difficult ones. Strongly recommend going hiking to this park.
I've been to a lot of state parks this summer and Matthiessen has got to be my favorite so far. Got a ton of wonderful pics. The whole family including our dog loved it!! Very beautiful place!!! Can't wait to check it out in the fall when the leaves change!!!! Will be returning many times.
The park is beautiful and really fun to hike. There are several waterfalls, caves, and stairs. Love coming here. It’s moderate in difficulty.
The Upper Dells and Lower Dells trails are great. What you want to do is go down into the canyons because the non-canyon trails are rather boring. The Lower Dells has a large waterfall and a massive canyon whereas the Upper Dells has a smaller stream running through it, but it does have a waterfall close to the lake at the northern end.
This place was amazing. Bring shoe that can get wet or water proof shoes. You can hike up canyons. They have some stepping stones to cross rivers but not enough. The water falls at the end of the canyons were beautiful. Plenty of stairs to get down into the canyon. Then keep walking and you can find another set of stairs to get out. Definitely with doing.
Matthiessen State Park is a US Park based in Oglesby, Illinois. Matthiessen State Park is located at 2500 Illinois Route 178, Oglesby, IL 61348, USA.
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