Hideaway Harbor Park

"Great place to launch a boat and head over to alton or grafton Illinois. There is a ramp onto the river and another with a dock on a little pond with no current connected to the river. The only issue is that on 9-16-23 the channel connecting the lake to the river was pretty shallow right at the river, my sonar saw as low as 3.8 feet. My boat doesn't draft very deep, but that is cutting it close, especially with bigger heavier boats. Other than that it's a great launch point."

"Hideaway Harbor Park is useful for accessing the Mississippi River. It has ample parking and 2 boat ramps one directly on the Mississippi and the other on a lake which connects to the Mississippi. There is also an accessible dock on the lake and plenty of other places to fish. If you use the vault toilet be careful. When I visited there was a paper-wasp nest in the soap dispenser. So when you try to get soap, you get wasps instead. There is no playground. On this latest visit, I did not notice any picnic tables."

"Great place to sit on the bank and watch the river float by, great scenery of the Palisades, Elsah Illinois is across the way (i posted an image I took from the bank here), and there are established Bald Eagle Nest on the Islands. It depends on the person; either you expect things to be there for your personal convenience or maybe what's there naturally to see is all you need? The energy in the river makes it a pretty special place, often quiet and seldom visited on weekdays It was a private marina that a tornado took out, now a park"

"Nice park. Came here to launch my jet ski. They have 2 ramps: one in a cove with a dock 20 feet away, the other on the river with no dock. It can get quite busy with only 2 ramps, but I only waited 10 minutes to launch. This would be a 5 star park if the road was paved and there were more boat ramps."