Less than a two-hour-drive south of Belleville, you can spot more than 20 species of snakes on a hike shorter than 3 miles. “I don’t think you can do that anywhere else in North America,” Mark ...

Editor's note: The video in the player above is from a previous migration. Nearly three miles of a southern Illinois road have been shut down for a rather unusual reason: a snake migration - albeit a ...

Roads get closed for a variety of reasons, including construction and public events, but one road in Illinois is currently shut down to help preserve local wildlife. The U.S. Forest Service is ...

Forest Service Road No. 345, better known as “Snake Road,” winds for roughly two and a half miles through southern Illinois’ Shawnee National Forest, a region home to nearly 60 percent of the state’s ...

UNION COUNTY, Illinois — Around 35 species of snakes have shut down nearly three miles of a southern Illinois road to vehicles as their bi-annual migration peaks. Forest officials say thousands of ...