State: | Illinois |
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Address: | 7300 River Rd, Hodgkins, IL 60525 |
Zip code: | 60525 |
Website: | http://www.civiccenterauthority.org/pages/sfprairie.htm |
A place to learn, a place to join, a place for relaxation & meditation. You can bring your children here; eat your lunch here; catch-up with old friends & make new friends. In the Spring the prairie comes alive as is sheds its winter cloak. Summer blossoms the prairie in a rainbow of unspeakably beautiful color & texture. Autumn is not sadness; it is another page with it's own display of a different kind of glory: pastels give way to sepia tones & shades of shortening days. Finally, Winter returns to cover Santa Fe Prairie with a blanket of snow & sending seeds underground in needed rest, preparing for a new day & season of salvation & rejuvenation. This small piece of uncultivated soil is, indeed, a history in & of itself. This marvelous undisturbed land may look like a diminutive example of prairie in a state once almost entirely prairie. However, don't you ever say that around the men & women who have toiled in labors of their love to care for & to maintain, not a small preserve of tens of thousands of years of history; the Santa Fe Prairie is grand beyond measure; a true giant in the growing list of yet to be discovered & cared for patches of prairie that define the prairie state & those dedicated volunteers who labor to protect & preserve every patch of untouched, virgin land that can be found. The labor of a few becomes a benefit for all. The beauty of a prairie favors no season.
This is my meditation on the Santa Fe Prairieā¦
Beautiful place nice place for dogs and picnicing
Beautiful! great fishing & they are all great people.
Great place to have a family outing....but at the same time it hidden enough that you won't be fighting for a place to fish ....
It really is a hidden gem. Don, a volunteer on site, was very welcoming, let us in the caboose and told us about the prairie and river.
Santa Fe Prairie Nature Preserve is located at 7300 River Rd, Hodgkins, IL 60525
The website (URL) for Santa Fe Prairie Nature Preserve is: http://www.civiccenterauthority.org/pages/sfprairie.htm