The U.S. Forest Service is preparing to close roughly three miles of road in southern Illinois due to a snake migration.
If you drive 90 miles southeast of St. Louis down Illinois Great River Road you’ll snake your way through the hills of the Shawnee National Forest.
“You’ll see a surprising number of out-of-state license plates,” said U.S. Forest Service Wildlife Biologist Mark Vukovich.
The reason they’re here might make your skin crawl.
“Forest Road 345 is the number,” said Vukovich. “Everybody knows it as Snake Road. It’s just a great place to come watch snakes.”
Biologist Mark Vukovich keeps a keen eye on the Snake Road for the US Forest Service.
“There are venomous snakes here,” said Vukovich. “Twenty-three species of snakes have been documented.”
There are so many snakes in the area that twice a year the US Forest Service shuts down the 2.7-mile stretch of road for a migration rarely seen anywhere else in North America.
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