Upcoming Events

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Join us at this Lake County birding hot spot to look for migratory bird species. Spotting scopes and binoculars will be available at our education table.

Unase a un educador ambiental y explore la reserva forestal Greenbelt. Caminata es en Español y Ingles.

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Join an Environmental Educator and take a leisurely stroll through one of our preserves. This is a great opportunity to get some exercise and learn about nature. Join us and take a closer look at plants, birds and other wildlife.

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Starting native plants from seed can be tricky until you know the tricks to sparking germination. Discover what it means to stratify and scarify seeds and which species need which treatment.

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Learn the history and unique stories of Fort Sheridan in this presentation that draws from the Dunn Museum’s archives. Topics include the founding of Fort Sheridan, its distinctive architecture, notable residents, and ways visitors can interact with the Fort today as one of Lake County’s many Forest Preserves.

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Build a bridge to nature with your young ones. Experience how multisensory nature connections help young children develop healthy and happy brains and bodies. Time spent in nature is critical to children's social-emotional, and physical development. Child-centered, exploratory, imaginative play fosters creativity, emotional well-being, independent learning, and problem solving.

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Slowing down when outdoors can lead to new discoveries. After reading a story, participants will venture outside and learn some activities to keep focus in the moment.

Stop by to meet several of our live resident education animals and feel fur, feathers and scales of a variety of local wildlife on a touch table.

Join us for a guided walk on one of this year’s Hike Lake County trails. Walk a new trail each session.

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Starting native plants from seed can be tricky until you know the tricks to sparking germination. Discover what it means to stratify and scarify seeds and which species need which treatment.

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

The story of Native peoples in the area stretches back 12,000 years and continues today. Learn about their lives, including the Potawatomi, on this guided tour of the Dunn Museum's exhibit.

Hike under the glow of the full moon while learning about the animals that come out at night.

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

The story of Native peoples in the area stretches back 12,000 years and continues today. Learn more about this history and the lives of the Potawatomi with other scouts.

Discover how stewardship can make nature healthier. Learn why restoration is needed in our forest preserves. Then head out to a patch of buckthorn and learn how to remove this non-native invasive plant species using hand tools. You will see how you can personally make a difference in the health of an ecosystem.

Join us for an author reading and signing with James Ciccone for his new book, The Lake County Trilogy. Ciccone's ancestor was the brother of Amos Bennett, Lake County's first African American settler. His historical fiction short story collection captures the hidden realities of the lives of early settlers of Lake County, Illinois with particular emphasis on Amos Bennett.

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Coyote sightings may be common…but how much do you really know about the largest predator to live wild in our cities and suburbs?

Coyote sightings may be common…but how much do you really know about the largest predator to live wild in our cities and suburbs?

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Join a naturalist and take a nice leisurely stroll through this beautiful preserve. Learn about the history of this site and take a close look at some of the interesting plants and animals that we come upon.

Learn about wild turkeys on a self-guided story trail and complete a turkey craft all at your own pace during this drop-in event.

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Join us for a guided walk on one of this year’s Hike Lake County trails. Walk a new trail each session.

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Join an environmental educator on this solar-lit hike at Old school Forest Preserve. Learn about nocturnal animals and their adaptations. Dress for the weather.