The Great Outdoors

The Forest Preserve:

Hours: Open 24 hours Everyday  

Hiking in the forest preserve is beautiful year round.  The main path is paved and several others are not. The 33 acre preserve adjoins the northeast corner of the lake. Turtles, squirrels, raccoons, ducks, geese, swans and other birds make their home here.  The Conservators club tend the flora, cuss at any buckthorn and in 2000, won the National Backyard Wildlife Habitat Award.

                                             Forest Preserve in the Fall

 As you exit the forest preserve, the paved bike and hiking path follows the lake edge all around the lake and then around the baseball meadow.  A full lap around it all is about 3.5 miles.

East enterance to the Forest

Summer on the Path