Waterfall Hikes Near Franklin Grove, IL

Franklin Grove has one fall on its page, the Great Falls of the Illinois River, 49 miles southeast at Marseilles. It is a stretch of rapids rather than a drop you hike to: the river falls about three feet over two miles along the northern edge of Illini State Park. This is flat Lee County farm country, and the nearest true waterfalls are the seasonal falls in the sandstone canyons of Starved Rock State Park near Utica, which this page does not list. Those canyon falls run only on rain and snowmelt, so go between March and June and expect most of them to be dry by late summer.