Thursday, May 13, 2010 - Giant City State Park, Makanda IL
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Night camp
Site 82 - Giant City State Park, Makanda IL
- Giant City State Park is a large older park located off US 51 mid way between Carbondale and Anna IL.
- This heavily wooded park has a large campground and many campsites with 30 AMP electric. Water and a dump station are available but not at the sites. Fee is $20.00 per night - no discounts.
- There is good Verizon cell phone and EVDO service
- Find Giant City State Park on my Night Camps map
- Check the weather here
Nights I've camped here
On Food and Freedom
Here I've clipped a few paragraphs from the excellent talk Return to Slavery: Will you be eating China's dust for breakfast? by Billie Best, Executive Director, Regional Farm and Food Project given on April 19, 2006 to the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Ecologic Club - Troy, New York, On the occasion of Ecologic Club launching a campaign to get more local foods into their campus food system.