sentences:  The designation of Starved Rock State Park in 1912 reportedly frustrated the supporters of White Pines Woods' designation as a state park.The influential Friends of Our Native Landscape included the area around the Rock River between Dixon and Oregon on a list of 20 places in Illinois that should be designated state parks.Located in "Rock River country," along an old Indian trail, was White Pines Woods covering in a canyon of dolomite rock carved by Pine Creek.