Oak-hickory forests, tall grass prairie, oak savanna and natural wetlands are an oasis for native plants and animals at this 97-acre preserve of th...
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This 15 acre natural area sits on the east bank of the Des Plaines River. In 1998 the Village, with School District 103, established a Nature Cente...
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Kent Fuller Air Station Prairie is a 32-acre remnant of a tall-grass prairie that once stretched for millions of square miles across North America....
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For 10,000 years, since the last glaciers melted away, the Des Plaines River Valley has been home and highway for plants, animals and people. Only ...
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Mellody Farm Nature Preserve:
In 1994, Lake Forest Open Lands partnered with a local developer to save 50 acres of a 76-acre site in the Middlefor...
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The Grove is 143 acres of ecologically diverse prairie grove land preserved and maintained by the Glenview Park District. The Grove was the ho...
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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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When you visit Wildwood Nature Center, you feel transported — to somewhere far away from where you really are, to a state of mind that leaves...
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Skokie's thirteen-acre savanna and nature center is an oasis full of native wildflowers, grasses, oak trees, a three-acre pond, and trails. Residin...
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About UsThe Evanston Environmental Association is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to the long-term success of the Evanston Ecology Cent...
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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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With surrounding Lake County in a state of vast development, it was Kildeer’s intent to provide its residents with a refuge where people coul...
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Since opening its doors in 1980, The Nature Center has been a vibrant natural resource for education and conservation in suburban Chicago. Ne...
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The Vera Meineke Nature Center at Spring Valley is an earth-sheltered, passive-solar visitor center and includes hands-on exhibits, discovery niche...
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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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Established in 1931, Trailside Museum of Natural History served as the first public nature education facility of the Forest Preserve District of Co...
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Over a thousand acres of rolling, glacier formed landscape in northwest Cook County has been set aside as Crabtree Nature Center.
Before 1830, this...
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Come in and check us out! The Prairie Grass Nature Museum and Interpretive Nature Trail lets everyone explore and discover in a hands-on, interacti...
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About Us:
Stillman Nature Center is a private, not-for-profit center for environmental education located on 80 acres of woods, lake and prairie in ...
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