The Wildlife Discovery Center (WDC) is a living natural history museum and one of the region’s unique hidden gems. It is a place of learning ...
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Several organizations are cooperating at this site to provide open space, wildlife habitat, flood control, water purification, education and outdoo...
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Illinois Beach provides excellent hiking opportunities. The southern part of the park features 5 miles of trails, including a 2.2-mile loop trail w...
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Illinois Beach State Park - stretching 6.5 miles along the sandy shore of Lake Michigan in northern Illinois - offers a full range of recreation op...
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The 2.5-mile crushed-gravel nature trail is wheelchair accessible and designed for easy use by the visually impaired. An audio guide for the trail ...
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At the southern edge of the Chicago Botanic Garden, visitors can connect with the 20.1-mile North Branch Trail. One of the great urban pathways of ...
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The Busse Forest Paved Trail is an eight-mile paved loop trail, perfect for biking and rollerblading. It traverses the majority of the preserve, wi...
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Head east on US-14 E toward Cumnor Ave,
Palatine, IL
Deer Grove’s rolling upland forest is interspersed with wooded ravines and wetlands. Picturesque creeks meander through this tract, draining upland...
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Open prairies, quiet woodlands and marshes teeming with wildlife await you at this scenic preserve.Six miles of gravel trails are open for hiking, ...
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Volo Bog was first documented by W.G. Waterman in 1921. It was originally named the Sayer Bog, after the land's owner, dairy farmer Geor...
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This is the flagship of Kenosha County Parks. Known to locals as "Pets", this park is the oldest in the system and offers a wide range of enjoyment...
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North Park Village Nature Center features a 46-acre nature preserve and educational facility, which are situated within the 155-acre North Park Vil...
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The 48-acre Lake Defiance, located near the center of the park, is one of the few glacial lakes in Illinois that has remained largely undeveloped, ...
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Chain O'Lakes has four trail systems. The Nature's Way hiking trail starts at Oak Grove Picnic Area and is 2 ¼ miles in length. The Pike Marsh Nort...
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The White Oaks Nature Trail is available for you to enjoy the natural surroundings as you walk, jog or bike on this interpretive loop trail. You ca...
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Once designated to be a jet fighter base, Richard Bong State Recreation Area is fittingly named after Major Richard I. Bong, a Poplar, WI nati...
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Our Story The 606 was a decade in the making. As train traffic slowed on the Bloomingdale Line in the 1990s, attention turned to how the train li...
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Located along Highway KD south of Highway 50 in Randall and Wheatland, the KD Park, a former gravel quarry, encompasses 234 acres of land and a 39-...
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The Illinois Prairie Path (IPP) was the first successful "rail-to-trail" conversion in the United States and inspired a national rail-to-trail move...
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