Fullersburg Woods Is The Best Place To Study Nature And Wildlife In Illinois
By Elizabeth Crozier|Published September 04, 2019
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Elizabeth Crozier
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An Illinois transplant who grew up and went to school in Indiana for 22 years, Elizabeth holds a BFA in creative writing and has enjoyed traveling across the country and parts of Europe. She has visited half of the states, as well as parts of Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean, and regularly travels home to the Hoosier State to see friends and family. With more than five years of writing experience, Elizabeth’s articles have been featured on several websites, and her poetry and short stories have been published in multiple literary journals.
If you enjoy searching for critters, stop by these wildlife woods in Oak Brook, Illinois that is not only full of them but will help you learn all there is to know. The nature learning center here is a wonderful place for kids of all ages. Check it out.
Fullersburg Woods Forest Preserve in northern Illinois is a 220-acre safe haven for wildlife and more and it is home to a marvelous little nature center.
There are 1.3 miles of paved trails to explore on an interpretive path which leads through this wildlife woods that is full of all sorts of critters and types of terrain.
You'll find yourself in everything from prairie land to deep forestry when you hike the trails and learn about this land before it was settled and industrialized.
Within the nature center itself, there is a 13,000-year-old skeleton of a woolly mammoth as well as many other specimens of creatures that still call DuPage County home today.
The Nature Learning Center at Fullersburg Woods Nature Preserve is open Monday through Saturday between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. as well as Sunday between 1 a.m and 5 p.m., and you can get more details on its web page on the DuPage County Forest Preserve District’s website here. If you’ve ever been to these wildlife woods, we’d love to hear from you. Please share your experiences and photos with us below in the comments.