08/30/2026
If you love food and nature equally, like myself, a super fun excursion about an hour away, is Giant City Lodge and State Park in Illinois! 🥰
There’s a great restaurant inside the lodge, I highly recommended the fried chicken with all the fixin’s, it’s served family style and it’s all you can eat: fried chicken 🍗, dumplings, corn🌽 , green beans, slaw, biscuits, apple butter, mashed potatoes 🥔 and gravy.
Like a buffet brought to your table!
I also had a blackberry bourbon lemonade 🥃 and blackberry cobbler. 😋 💜
Bonus, after you’ve stuffed your self with delicious food and drink you can make yourself feel better about consuming 300,000 calories by walking any number of trails! 😀 ☀️🦋🌻🐝🌳🦎🦌🍄🍁
Seriously they have a wide variety of trails from flat paved to rugged with beautiful bluffs and views.
I try to make this trip a few times a year.
