This state park, close to Interstate 70, seems fitting for the week of Thanksgiving, doesn't it? I wonder if it was named for turkeys running from hunters. Just kidding.
Hiking at Turkey Run takes you on many adventures. If you walk through some of the parks ravines of sandstone dating back to what scientists believe to be 300 to 600 million years.
There are eleven miles of hiking trails in Turkey Run with one taking you over this suspended bridge. Prepare yourself as nature will show you its glory.
As at Brown County State Park, get your canoes and kayaks and explore the waterways within the state park and beyond the park's borders.
Sunset Point is the location of the Lieber cabin, built in 1848 with native Indiana Tulip trees. The cabin was moved to the park in 1918 by Richard Lieber, the German-American known as the father of Indiana's state parks. His ashes are buried at Turkey Run.
Lieber encouraged charging admission to the state parks saying that by charging admission the visitors would hold the parks at higher value.
Another structure within the state park is the Salmon Lusk home and mill site.
Lusk and his family cut the stone for the foundation of the home, made all the bricks by hand, dug a coal mine for fuel to heat and built a gristmill with a horizontal water wheel.
A community sprang up around the Lusk home, remaining until in 1847, a Sugar Creek flooded and washed the community away leaving only the brick dwelling intact.
In 1916 using funds donated by the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the Lusk home and property were purchased and Incorporated into Turkey Run State Park.
Another covered bridge is located in one more Indiana state park.
Thanks for taking the tour of Turkey Run with me. Hopefully, one of these days, we will meet at the campground. Until then....
Be safe out there on the roads today and God Bless.
