Hiking at Pere Marquette!

On Sunday we decided to go hiking through some of the trails at Pere Marquette. I wasn't sure how the little ones would do but we decided to try some of the small trails to start off with. All the kids did much better than expected so we ended up hiking over 2 miles altogether! It was a lot of fun! I've been wanting to hike with the kids and found a great book called 60 hikes within 60 miles of St. Louis. It outlines each hiking trail with how hard it is, what kind of terain, how long it is and how long it should take to hike, and many other useful things. Chris and I decided we are going to see how many hikes we can do this fall with the kids and they are very excited about it.
Before we took off onto the hike, I took a picture of the map just in case we should get lost. I'm so thankful I did as we had to look at it several times since we decided to hike a little further than we originally planned.

Here are some of the pictures we took along the way.














My niece and nephew had a great time too and asked if they could go on some hikes with us this fall. We got to see a lot of great wildlife along the way too, many of which was posted on the camping post. I think its great for the kids to get out into nature like this and can't wait to go on many more nature adventures!