![Fort Massac](https://www.dancentury.com/travel/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/fort-massac.jpg)
The Fort Massac Rest Area (37.159140, -88.679758) welcomes you to Metropolis, Illinois, the town Clark Kent works in. Clark Kent is, of course, the possibly-fictional superhero Superman.
The rest area is, overall, quite pleasant and features landscaped grounds, a clean bathroom (I can’t say clean bathrooms (plural) because I only visited the men’s bathroom), and an informative educational display about Emerald Ash Borer insects (which destroy ash trees).
![Emerald Ash Borer](https://www.dancentury.com/travel/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/emerald-ash-borer.jpg)
The grounds also feature Brood XXIII periodical cicadas, but the next time you’ll be able to observe them there is in 2028.
Last visited: May 24th, 2015.