Celebrate Earth Day. Join us to clean up Glencoe parks and lakefront. We will meet at various locations. This is a rain or shine event, please dress for the weather. Bring your own boots, gloves and buckets to collect debris in. Refuse and recycling cans will be placed at each cleanup location to empty […]
Join area expert birder, Tim Joyce, of Wild Birds Unlimited, for a bird walk along the Glencoe Golf Club’s forested borders adjacent to the Chicago Botanic Garden. Dress for the weather and ground conditions. Bring binoculars and a small note pad. Tim will reserve time for birding, feeding and landscape questions. The walk will not […]
The Nachusa Grasslands is a 3,800-acre restored tallgrass prairie near Franklin Grove, about a two-hour drive west of Glencoe. Managed by The Nature Conservancy and volunteers, it is Illinois’s largest and most biologically diverse grasslands restoration project. Naturalist and longtime Nachusa volunteer, Susan Kleiman will describe the restoration process and the introduction of the large […]
SAVE THE DATE! for the 4th Green Bay Trail Day on Saturday, July 29, from 8am – Noon, Hubbard Woods to Shelton Park Visit, stroll and enjoy the Green Bay Trail - Glencoe’s Homegrown National Park. Free food, music and activities for all. More information to come.
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The Friends of The Green Bay Trail is a volunteer-managed 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.
We restore nature’s beauty to The Green Bay Trail.