Indiana national park: Take those painted rocks elsewhere
VINCENNES, Ind. (AP) — A national park in southern Indiana is discouraging visitors from taking part in a scavenger hunt-type fad where people paint rocks and leave them places.
The rock-painting trend has recently become a problem at the George Rogers Clark National Historical Park in Vincennes. Joe Herron is the park's chief ranger and he's not a fan of the rock-painting fad.
He tells the Evansville Courier & Press that park employees have "had to be a party pooper" and pick up and remove painted rocks left in the park that honors a Revolutionary War hero because they aren't consistent with the National Park Service's "leave it as you found it" policy.