Anyone have good ideas for places to take a hike in the woods around greater Chicagoland? Interesting geological features preferred ala Starved Rock. Where are other Starved Rock like places in which to hike that are no more than 1.5 hrs from Riverside?
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Places in the woods to hike?
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Posted Friday Mar 27, 2009 15:32 #
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Well, as you know, you can't find terrain like that around here.
Check out the DuPage County Forest Preserves. They are cleaner and nicer than ours! We like to walk in Fullersburg Woods around the Graue Mill. I have been to Waterfall Glen around Argonne years ago and had a good stiff walk there. Going back soon.
Posted Friday Mar 27, 2009 15:50 # -
thanks for the tips. I found this link. seems more for biking, which , in general I am also interested in, but also speaks of the donation of the Dean estate of Oak brook and paths I knew nothing of.
http://www.1track.org/fullersburg.html
We can now ride all the way from the Brookfield Zoo to Highland Avenue in Downers Grove without touching any busy streets except to cross them!
http://www.1track.org/dean_w.html
I also came across this great link
http://www.everytrail.com/world_map.php?lat=41.8262774&lon=-87.9324542&zoom=9
Posted Friday Mar 27, 2009 16:08 # -
Yes, some of those I did not know about. Oak Brook has a lot of stuff like that!
There is a visitor's center at Fullersburg where you can get map and directory to all DuPage parks. I have not seen biking there, just walking.
Cook County has some great land, but ugh, the garbage! Kettle Moraine State Park up north is good, too.
Posted Friday Mar 27, 2009 16:25 # -
Well, since we are now being "tested" and have to answer in 100 words or less, I want extra credit. I pick up, at a minimum, at least three bags of trash everyday - around the Hauser/Central area where despite asking for years I have been unable to get them to put covered (swing lid) trash containers at the perimeter so the kids have some place to throw wrappers, etc. - at the Swan Pond in the area of the little dam and on down to the library - and at the Forest preserves on Desplaines and at White Eagle Woods (47th and Harlem where I go every day to feed the deer. I make a point to do this every time I walk my dog - so if we walk from my domicile to the Swan Pond I also pick up in the CBD. I do this because I don't like to see this stuff, and because I know the Village is strapped for cash and the DPW and Forestry guys have more than enough to do with other tasks I cannot handle. I put this here because, if more of the people that walk their dogs or just themselves around town would carry a bag and bend over once in a while to pick something up it would make a big difference. That's a small if not glamorous (Eng. sp.?) way to participate in the volunteerism that Trustee Sells asked us to do. See a problem and chip in to help is something we all could do.
Posted Friday Mar 27, 2009 16:55 # -
Quite right. And when are the clean up days?
But this garbage, I am talking dumpsters. The Palos area dead south of us is the largest preserved land mass in these parts, it crosses the Cook and Dupage county line. It has hills, trees, water. It is great, but largely ruined by mind-boggling levels of trash. That is why JBT recently wrote she wished the CCFPD would call for volunteers out west here as they do in other parts.
Posted Friday Mar 27, 2009 17:36 # -
They do. It's on their web site - they have clean up projects and days - don't know what the turnout is - I'm a loner.
Posted Friday Mar 27, 2009 18:14 # -
Oh, OK.
Posted Friday Mar 27, 2009 18:23 # -
Curiously, after doing more review, I was zeroing in on that palos area for those same features that catherine enumerated. I guess we'll all have to bring back packs - for the trash.
http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=57552
It looks like it is a straight shot down 1st av.; hard to find elevation changes in IL.
I also saw this site. this is sort of the staycation recession jaunts.
Posted Friday Mar 27, 2009 18:25 # -
About 10 miles north of Lake Geneva is the southwest corner of the Kettle Morrain State Park. Lots of Bike and Hiking trails. One runs the lenght of the whole park . Its called the Ice Age Trail and runs aproximately 70 miles.
Posted Friday Mar 27, 2009 21:40 #
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