Silver Creek

Yesterday when we asked at the headquarters of the Jay Cooke State Park about the nearby geo-sites, and showed them the book, they recognized the pictures and credit by-line as one of their fellow employees. Today we came back to the park nature center to meet Kristine Hiller.

Kristine with Frederick. She was thrilled to see the pictures in the book because she remembered taking the pictures and corresponding with Albert Dickas, the author, but she had never seen the published book.

After talking with Kristine we went on the Silver Creek Trail hike through the Jay Cooke State Park.

The main feature of the area is the St. Louis River raging through the park. 

At one point, crossing over the river, is a suspension bridge. Here you can just see the cables of the bridge as we stand in the center looking upstream.

Part of the trail skirts the St. Louis River where you can see the Thomson Formation.

Rushing river through the park along the trail.

We had talked about the trail with Kristine and she told us about this part  that had been closed but that they were soon going to reopen. She said it was perfectly fine for us to travel this part of the trail.

In the winter the trail is used for cross-country skiing. There are several shelters along the trail. We stopped and ate our lunch at one. The temperature was in the lower 70's and it was a glorious day.

As we were driving around trying to find a spot to work on the blog we came upon this sign. There are periodic train whistles that we can hear in the campground.