The festivals are worth planning a trip around: the Corn Festival’s four September days on the downtown Sullivan square; Dugger’s Coal Festival each fall; four three-day weekends at the county lake between Memorial Day and Halloween; and a Victorian Christmas to finish the year.
A good day here is two or three of these in a row: water in the morning, a town square after lunch, supper wherever the evening finds you. When something catches your eye, start with it and build the day around it.
A 461-acre lake with camping, golf, beach, and four annual festivals.
Three lakes, five hiking trails, and 1,766 acres across three counties.
120 lakes from old coal mines, on 9,000 acres of state forest.
Ten strip-pit lakes on 2,150 acres, part of Greene-Sullivan State Forest.
A renovated city pool in Sullivan with slides, a diving board, and rock walls.
Two Late Woodland Era ceremonial mounds on the Wabash, near Fairbanks.
The hospital’s community fitness center, with a full gym floor and an indoor track.
A twenty-four hour gym on North Main, with tanning and a salon.
The 1910 Fairbanks schoolhouse, revived by volunteers as the community’s gathering place.
Three leagues, fourteen fields and diamonds, one campus on Silver Street.
A local artists’ guild and gallery on the downtown Sullivan square.
A coal-mining heritage museum in Dugger, open during the Coal Festival and by appointment.
