Snake Road is closed.
Due to hotter temperatures this season, Shawnee National Forest officers have closed the highway early.
Bi-annually the Shawnee National Forest closes Forest Service Road No. 345, also referred to as Snake Road, to assist guarantee secure crossing for a number of species of snakes and amphibians throughout this vital time of migration.
The 2.5-mile-long highway is generally closed in early March to permit snakes and amphibians – a few of them thought of threatened and endangered in Illinois and the United States – emigrate from their winter habitat within the limestone bluffs throughout the highway to their summer time habitat in LaRue Swamp.