Address: | Sycamore, IL 60178, USA |
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Postal code: | 60178 |
Phone: | (630) 232-1242 |
Website: | http://www.kaneforest.com/ForestPreserveView.aspx?ID=10 |
Another fairly quiet place. Open prairie setting
Great trails for biking and hiking.
This is a restored prairie managed by the Kane County Forest Preserve. Come and see what northern Illinois looked like before the prairie was plowed under to make way for industrial scale monocropping.
Less than one percent of the original prairie still exists in Illinois.
Loved how many bobolinks I saw while hiking through the prairie! I will definitely be back again to enjoy this prairie in all the seasons.
As a "forest preserve" I guess I expected more forest. This place is, for all intents and purposes, a path around a field.
Some areas are more grassy than others, but when I visited, the area was being plowed.
On the plus side, the insanely flat, crushed limestone path made for a nice and easy jog around the preserve... so I'll be back.
Burlington Prairie lies in the northwest corner of Burlington Township. It is one of those very rare parcels of land that through a series of fortunate land use events, remains as totally undisturbed prairie. Grasses and wildflowers carpet the gently rolling landscape of Burlington Prairie Forest Preserve.
The Forest Focus Forest Preserve District of Kane County www.kaneforest.com Fall 2008 District makes progress on multiple capital projects this fiscal year Vespula and friends are sure to be buzzing around the forest preserves this fall By Valerie Blaine By Laurie Metanchuk See Yellowjackets, cont. on page 14 W e've put in a lot of bridges
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