Shawnee National Park?

Local rumour is hot

Now it is

https://www.fs.usda.gov/shawnee

https://dnr.illinois.gov/parks/park.giantcity.html

Garden of the Gods is already a wilderness, seems like it should become a national park too if the Shawnee was. I remember both locations being pretty amazing to visit photography wise.

The local hunters object

we do have excess deer

They sleep in my yard

and the Damn Bambi kill cars

Once in the Blue Ridge a big Bambi jumped over the Police Motorcyclist I was following on my R75