Directions

Spring Creek Preserves Work Sites:

Headwaters - West 

Just west of Wichman Road (Headwaters) on Higgins Road (Rt. 72) ...... watch for our cars on the right and pull off on the side of Higgins.  Walk in along the path about 100 yards and watch for us by the fire.

Headwaters   - Map

Higgins Rd., north of I-90 and west of Sutton Rd./Rt.59. Turn north onto Wichman Rd.

Penny Road Pond  - Map

Take Rt. 59 to Penny Rd. (north of Higgins, south of Dundee). Go west on Penny Rd. through the forest preserves and look for the parking lot on the south side.

Healy Road Savanna  - Map

Winter Parking Directions:  PLEASE park on Healy Road on the East Side of the berm. This will be plowed. You can get there from the East by taking Penny Rd past the Penny Road Pond to the stop sign (this is the Healy/Penny Rd junction.)  Take a left onto Healy and continue to the end which is the berm. Park there and walk around the berm to the pig barn.  We will gather there.

Steeplechase Shrubland

Park behind the Barrington Riding Center, 361 Bateman Rd., Barrington Hills. On east side of Bateman Rd., north of Algonquin Rd.

LongMeadow Prairie

Take Bateman Rd. to Longmeadow Rd. which is between Dundee Rd., (Rt. 68) and Algonquin Rd. Park on the north side of Longmeadow Rd. Please do not park on the grass.  The entrance to the prairie is across Bateman.  Follow the signs to the site.