Winter vehicle access to preserves will be limited to select preserve locations once the roadways become snow or ice covered due to staff and equipment limitations and terrain.  Signs are posted welcoming walk in use at all preserve locations. Some hard paths are kept cleared, but not all parking lots will be available and not all gates or roadways will be open. Below is a planned list of areas accessible by vehicles and hard paths for pedestrian use for the winter of 2021-22. Weather conditions may temporarily close some of these areas also. 

Atwood - front gate parking with select roadways open for walking

Blackhawk Springs – Mulford Rd entrance ONLY with select parking lots open; portions of rec path

Colored Sands – Yale Bridge parking lot open; front gate parking only at banding station

Deer Run – front parking lot open

Espenscheid – front parking lot open

Ferguson- trailhead parking lot open

Four Lakes – Main parking lot at South entrance open

Fuller – front parking lot open

Funderburg- trailhead parking lot open

Headquarters – all parking lots and hard path open

Hononegah – front parking lot open; walking areas on select roadways inside preserve   

Indian Hill – main parking lot open

Jensen – front gate parking open

Kieselburg – front parking lot open

Kishwaukee Gorge – front parking lot open

Kishwaukee River – front parking lot on west side of river open; portions of rec path

Klehm - accessible 

Laona Heights – front gate parking open

Macktown – Main roadway to shelter and visitor’s center

Oak Ridge – main parking lot open

Pecatonica Wetlands – front parking lot open on Pecatonica Road

Roland Olson – front parking lot open; walking areas on select roadways inside preserve

Severson Dells – front parking lot to preserve, all lots to nature center open; hard path open

 Seward Bluffs – front parking lot open

Sugar River Alder – main parking lot open

Sugar River – front gate parking open

Trask Bridge – boat launch parking lot open

Two Rivers – main parking lot open