Enjoy a Free Spring Wildflower Walk at Johnson’s Mound Forest Preserve
Come enjoy a walk at Johnson’s Mound Forest Preserve to learn about our native wildflowers.
Forest Preserve District of Kane County naturalists will lead this walk from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Saturday, May 9. Attendees will learn about the names and stories behind diverse flowers along the way.
This “Spring Wildflowers” program is free and open to all ages, though you must register at 630-444-3190 or email programs@kaneforest.com<
Johnson’s Mound Forest Preserve is located at 41W600 Hughes Road, Elburn.
For more information or to view the full roster of Forest Preserve District spring nature programs, visit www.kaneforest.com<http://www.
SOURCE: Kane County Forest Preserve District press release
About Johnson’s Mound
Johnson’s Mound is a heavily wooded classic example of a stratified gravel hill known as a “kame”, which was deposited by glacial ice and water some 10,000 years ago. This kame is a prominent feature on our mid-county landscape, rising 50 feet above the surrounding tributaries of Blackberry Creek and the glacial outwash plain.
Much of the woods here is of nature preserve quality and there is a serenity in the deep woods that offers a special “get away from it all”, feeling for those wanting a quiet walk in the woods. Outside the woods is an open sledding hill, a five (5) acre mowed recreational area and a cabin on the edge, which is used for small gatherings.
The preserve was expanded in the ’80s by adding some open fields on the north, where woodland and prairie restorations are underway and a prominent FBI tower is in this area. It is important not to try to add too many other features or activities here for there is a danger of losing the important peace and solitude for incidental or trivial improvements.Johnson’s Mound is located on Hughes Road, approximately 1 mile west of Fabyan Parkway. This site is a hill rising some 200 feet above the rolling prairie around it.
