�I'm highlighting, I've had personal experience hiking so can vouch for their merits.Turkey Run State ParkTurkey Run is still one of my favorite state parks to hike in. The combination of woodland trails, steep cavern runs, and Sugar Creek running through it all, makes Turkey Run a hiker's wonderland. The trails vary from short 1 mile down to the creek and back to the parking lot, and even that trail has it's challenging moments, but it's short and they don't last long.My favorite trails at Turkey Run are on the opposite side of Sugar Creek. You cross the suspension bridge over Sugar Creek and enter a sandstone canyon area that looks like something out of a western cowboy movie. Trails meander up and around and through the caverns and down into a creek bed where the trail criss-crosses the creek. Depending upon the time of year, prepare to get wet! In the fall, the creekbed is generally dry however, in most spots and you can hike the entire trail without getting wet. It's a challenging trail but not difficult. On a scale of 1-10 with 10 being extremely difficult, I would give the Turkey Run Creek trail a 6. Turkey Run is located in Crawfordsville, Indiana about an hour's drive from Indianapolis. Clifty Falls State ParkClifty Falls State Park ranks second on my favorite day hiking trails. I like the combination of water, cliffs, and woodlands when I hike and Clifty Falls has all three in abundance, plus waterfalls! If you find the right combination of Clifty Falls trails you can spend about 4 hours hiking the 8 miles of looped trails, passing by four of the five waterfalls and all along the Clifty Creeks steep canyon bed with 300 fit walls surrounding you.It's pretty cool! Not the Grand Canyon by any shot, but still neat for southern Indiana. And make sure you check out the small cave on Trail 2. You can enter, slippery and wet but I can picture Tom Sawyer exploring it!Indiana's Best Day Hiking Trails
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