Arthur L. Janura Preserve

It was so much fun to watch people here to play with their model planes. Small, powerful, agile, fast, thrilled, and the noise to the ear. This makes today's thrones like a baby toy, don't have any of the excitement at all.

Such a fun day! Great clean path for biking, running, or walking. Beautiful streaming creeks enchanting our eyes and spiking curiosity in the kids.

Quite a hidden gem of urban wildlife preservation. I love the integration of water, trails, and mixed use pathways for both pedestrians and cyclists. While circling south Bode lake, we came upon some aquatic birds (in the loon family?) roosting in a dead tree next to a live willow. We look forward to another opportunity to explore further.

Beautiful preserve. We did a bit of the brown loop and the whole yellow loop. About 4.5 miles in total. 70% is in the open prairie. 30% is in trees. Not too many bugs but we did have DEET on. Saw a total of 6 people and a horse on the entire trail on a Saturday AM. Parking lot is mostly open on the west side near the brown loop.

Absolutely beautiful prairie! Less than 1% of the prairies in Illinois remain, and this is one of those hidden gems. Love to hike through the woods to the lake, and go on the bike trail. Nice place to go for walks.