All Places in Hennepin

This conservation district is composed of 5 parcels of wild-land each offering something different for bird watchers. The “home site” is a 270-acre tract called the Natural Lands Area, which also houses the district’s headquarters and offers primitive camping, picnic shelters, hiking and equestrian trails, and cross country skiing through oak-hickory forests and restored tallgrass prairie. Be on the lookout Read more...

The historic – but now rare – Illinois landscape of backwater lakes, wetlands, prairies, fens, and seeps now flourishes on former corn and soybean fields along the Illinois River at the Dixon Waterfowl Refuge at Hennepin and Hopper Lakes. Now open to the public, the restoration project is one of the first large-scale floodplain restoration projects along the Illinois River. Read more...