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Top 10 Things to do in DuQuoin, United States
DuQuoin in United States, from Nouth America region, is best know for Bars & Clubs. Discover best things to do in DuQuoin with beautiful photos and great reviews from traveller around the world here!
Restaurants in DuQuoin
1. Scratch Brewing
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 40 reviews
Reviewed By DowntownDean - Saint Louis, Missouri
This place is way off the beaten track and sometimes out of cell service. It has a very rustic and simple feel. They make all the beers from things grown/foraged off their property. They use items from bark, leaves, Basil, carrots, to day lillies. The beer list changes often and is completely seasonal. They serve some food - two season pizzas, cheese platter, and bread. Small indoor seating area, but large outdoor area with fire pits and more. Kid friendly - games available inside and goats are outside.
Cash only. Growlers available to go. Great spot for a lazy day road trip from St. Louis.
2. Walker Bluff Winery
Overall Ratings
4 based on 25 reviews
Reviewed By gail a - Paducah, Kentucky
After seeing several commercias drove 1.5 hours. We looked them up on their website. The menu looked great. We were willing to drive the distance and pay the price. ...not cheap. NO WHERE WE'RE THE HOURS POSTED. when we got there. ...yet were closed. We stopped at the general store on the way out and THE MANAGER was glad to show us online where we DID NOT SEE THE HOURS....BECAUSE THEY ARE ONLY LISTED UNDER VENUES...not under the restaurant ....smh
I was not looking for a venue. ...will never go back and don't appreciate the story managers attitude .
3. Boo Rochman Memorial Park
Overall Ratings
5 based on 105 reviews
Reviewed By Mike W - Illinois
This place is awesome for kids and kids at heart. It is a medieval setting with a "castle" labyrinth play area. The grounds are always clean and well maintained.
There are no admission and the park is open during daylight hours.
I highly recommend visiting with or without kids!
4. Big Muddy Brewing
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 21 reviews
Reviewed By TravelinFam3 - Perryville
Visited with a group of friends and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. We made use of the back patio area as it was a beautiful day. They have a selection of Big Muddy merchandise and offer a short tour as well. It appears that there was a small selection of snack items (nachos, etc).
5. Illinois Rural Heritage Museum
Overall Ratings
5 based on 8 reviews
Reviewed By Taylor B - Chicago, Illinois
Pinckneyville is a basketball town with its tradition dating to the 1940s and 1950s. That's why I first visited the southern Illinois community several years ago. But southern Illinois is all about farming and the Illinois Rural Heritage Museum at 187 Fairground Road in Pinckeyville provides an opportunity for non-agricultural raised individuals, city folks like my wife and me, to experience the changing rural lifestyle from 1850 forward. For rural folks, it brings back memories of challenging times when manual labor and exposure to weather extremes were required to earn a living, like your father or grandfather's exposure to the heat and dust on a vintage tractor or combine. The museum also features many interactive exhibits, displays and videos that provide an important teaching venue for children, young adults and city folks who never sat on a tractor. It explains the ever-changing story of rural life from different perspectives--agriculture, business, conservation, education, medicine, natural resources, technology and transportation. A critical element of the museum's mission is to preserve and restore important items that would otherwise be lost with the passage of time. When I was a student at the University of Illinois, several of my fraternity brothers were products of farm families and lived within 50 to 100 miles of the Champaign-Urbana campus. As a native of Chicago, I had little knowledge of farming. They gave me a good education. While visiting the museum and observing the exhibits, I recalled many of their stories. Among the museum's three warehouses of interesting exhibits are the red barn, a 1900s dentist office, a general store, a doctor's office, a collection of vintage ice cream freezers, a collection of baby buggys and bicycles and carriages, lots of farm machinery and equipment dating to the early 1900s and other artifacts from country and farming life in southern Illinois. You can even learn how to make apple butter. It's a wonder they had time to play basketball.
6. Pheasant Hollow Winery
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 22 reviews
Reviewed By gary k - Hoffman Estates, Illinois
I stop in this winery maybe twice a year and I have to say the wine is unbelievably great. They have various blends. My favorite is the midnight melody made with a blend of three wines one of which is strawberry. You will love this one. Also the Razz is excellent, Blue and black are my next favorite. The atmosphere is great and relaxing with a very comfortable porch. If you plan ahead you can be there for one of their events. The GPS told us to turn the wrong way so when you go follow the signs not siri.
7. Herrin Park
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 14 reviews
Reviewed By mitchell2013 - Southern Illinois
Herrin Park has a lot to offer - multiple playgrounds, a public pool with a waterslide, a skatepark and tennis courts, running trails and a dog park. There are multiple picnic pavilions to be rented out for events. Still has an old playground with the old school big swings. Sign the geocache too! Great place to spend a couple hours with friends or kids.
8. Franklin County Historic Jail Museum
Overall Ratings
5 based on 13 reviews
Reviewed By Taylor B - Chicago, Illinois
The historic Franklin County Jail Museum in Benton, Illinois, north of Mount Vernon and south of Centralia on I-57, serves as the home of the Franklin County Tourism Bureau. It is a beautifully restored 1905 building that houses memorabilia of the gangster era from the days of prohibition in the 1920s as well as mementos from famous Benton natives, including Union General John A. Logan, actor John Malkovich, professional basketball star Doug Collins and Beatle George Harrison, who visited his sister in Benton in the summer of 1963. The jail, located at 209 West Main Street, became a symbol of the gangster era in southern Illinois during prohibition. It was the last stop for Charlie Birger, the last man publicly hanged in Illinois on April 19, 1928, for the 1926 murder of West City's mayor, Joe Adams. A new jail was built in 1991 and the old jail was placed on the Register of Historic Places in 1999. Inside the jail museum, visitors can look into Charlie Birger's cell and see the window where he reportedly shouted to the men building his gallows to "build it strong, boys." A replica of the gallows is there, too. Beatle George Harrison spent two weeks in Benton while visiting his sister in 1963. He bought his famous black Rikkenbacker guitar at Fenton's Music Store in nearby Mount Vernon and was interviewed and played a song on radio station WFRX in nearby West Frankfort. Five months later, in February 1964, the Beatles debuted on American television on the Ed Sullivan Show. Harrison's guitar, which sold at auction in 2014 for $657,000, is not on display. You'll have to settle for the life and times of Charlie Birger.
9. Ken Gray Presidential Hall of Fame
Overall Ratings
2.5 based on 3 reviews
Former Congressman Ken Gray's collection of political memorabilia is on display for the public.
Reviewed By TravelHappy2Day
If you go to the "Presidential Hall of Fame" expecting anything grand, then you're sure to be disappointed. Kenny Gray, "The King of Pork" as he was known, has collected the oddest assortment of cars, memorabilia, parade floats, and other oddities. But it doesn't come across as much more than one of those Route 66 roadside "attractions."
I've met the man, and he's a very nice guy. But the best part of the museum is that it's free.
10. Lake Murphysboro State Park
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 30 reviews
Phone is 618.684.2867
Reviewed By kitnsaly00 - Shawnee, Kansas
The website said fishing and swimming is in the same place which isn't the case. Our group had to split up. The fishers didn't think it was a good fishing area. Those the swam in the lake had a great experience.
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