Cities with RV Parks are shown in blue type.
The other listed cities on I-70, in green type
are included for orientation.

exit #	community	exit #	community
2-A	East St Louis	68	Vandalia
6	Fairmont City	82	Altamont
15	Granite City	160*	Effingham
18	Troy	119	Greenup
24	Highland	129	Casey
45	Greenville	147	Marshall
*I-57 exit numbers are used in this area

Unless DOWNTOWN St Louis is your destination we strongly recommend skirting the downtown area using I-270
Eastbound: use exit 232 or exit 224 taking the MO-370 Freeway to I-270 (much less traffic)
Westbound: go straight at Illinois I-70 exit 15. Then follow I-270 around the north side of St Louis to either exit 22 (MO-370 Freeway) which will take you - and ends - at I-70 or go on to exit 20-A (I-70 west).

I-70 and Illinois

Crossing the Mississippi River is almost like crossing into a different country. Much is divided as "east of the Mississippi" and "west of the Mississippi" but these clichés usually refer to social behavior or physical location. Geographically, the area of the continent occupied by the U.S.A. is also split into east and west.
If you are eastbound, you've seen that the Great Plains is not 'flat'. It frequently appears that way from the distance because the undulations have been created by erosion.

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As you travel east of the Mississippi - at least well south of the Great Lakes at first until you get to Ohio, the undulations are foothills of mountain chains - many of them.
Illinois is a 'between' state. It has the incredible fertility of the Great Plains but mixed with debris from the glaciers of the ice age. The rivers flow more quickly but not as much so as Indiana and Ohio.

contributed by Bob Masters

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American Interstate System Illinois Guide to RV Parks Near I-70 Exits (from West to East)

I-70 and Illinois

American Interstate System
Illinois Guide
to
RV Parks Near I-70 Exits
(from West to East)