CLAYTON, Ill. (AP) — Siloam Springs State Park in western Illinois is getting 25 new metal hitching rails to give horseback riders a place to tie up horses.
The park’s old wooden posts have rotted away, and riders have been resorting to tying their horses to trees. The president of the Quincy Saddle Club, Bruce Reinebach, says that has damaged and killed trees in the park, about 25 miles east of Quincy.
The Quincy Herald-Whig reports the Saddle Club received a $3,500 grant from the Horseman’s Council of Illinois for the $6,300 project.
It expects to have the new rails in the ground by June.
