Interacting With Government Employees

So, the other day I finally had a return call from a park official from one of the state park agencies.  I learned a little something about different agencies running different parks and forests... something I'll touch upon in a different post soon.  So this is some of what I learned:

Any who, I found out that for four dollars, you can get a map mailed to you of the Knobstone trail in Indiana.  I also found out that indeed Knobstone trail doesn't have any reliable water sources except for two and the trail is the longest in Indiana.  The second longest trail in the state is Adventure Trail.  It was confirmed that there are very few backpacking trails in our state, but that for hiking the most popular trails are at the state parks.  The area surrounding Bloomington offers a higher quality and number of respectable trails than in the northern half of the state.