Man, 24, dies after 60-foot fall from Starved Rock cliff

OGLESBY — Conservation officers say an Indiana man died after he slipped and fell about 60 feet from a cliff at Starved Rock State Park.

Illinois Conservation Police say the 24-year-old Schererville, Indiana, man was hiking with a woman in her 20s when he fell Saturday afternoon into Pontiac Canyon, the Chicago Tribune reported.

The LaSalle County coroner’s office identified the man as Collin Anderson, 24. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Illinois Conservation Police Sgt. Phil Wire says the man and the woman had climbed down from marked trails and were trying to see a small “waterfall” that flows over the edge of the canyon when the man slipped on moss or algae and went over the cliff’s edge.

He landed on flat sandstone below.

Contributing: Sun-Times Wire