1 hour 20 minutes (approx.)
Daily Tour
15 people
English
If you’re looking to add a little excitement to your drive from St. Louis to Springfield, book this Interstate 55 Self-Guided Driving Tour. This budget-friendly experience is available anytime and allows you to explore at your own pace with an audio guide who keeps you entertained along the route. You can always alter your drive and pull off the freeway, too, when something interests you.
A prehistoric civilization best known for the large earthen mounds they left behind lived here. The civilization thrived here for 600 years before mysteriously disappearing sometime before 1350 CE. The center of their civilization was dominated by Monk’s Mound, the largest prehistoric earthen construction in the Americas.
• Admission Ticket Free
One of the most famous advocates for the rights of miners was Mother Jones. She was once called the most dangerous woman in America. She died in 1930, and is buried at Union Miners Cemetery in Mt. Olive, the only union-owned cemetery in the United States.
• Admission Ticket Free
Welcoming us to Livingston is the Pink Elephant Antique Mall, with its larger than life fiberglass men, women, ice cream cones, flying saucer, and of course, pink elephants.
• Admission Ticket Free