Hike Waterfall Glen from the Main Parking Lot, 6 miles or more or less
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NOTE: this is a different starting point than we usually use! Waterfall Glen is a wooded, nice wide crushed limestone loop path of 9.5 miles total length. We'll only plan to hike about 6 miles total out and back, to the Rocky Glen Waterfall and then back to the main parking lot on Northgate Rd. This will take us through a different part of the preserve than we usually hike. Anyone who wants can return earlier since it's out-and-back and easy to follow. Or you can continue all the way around the 9.5-mile loop. We'll plan stick to the limestone trail, but if someone else would like to lead the group on some of the smaller trails that would be fine as well.
We will meet at MAIN PARKING LOT (NOT the Waterfall Parking Lot, make sure you go to the right lot!). From I-55, take Cass Avenue 0.5 mile south to Northgate Road. Turn right on Northgate, and go 400 feet to the lot.
Per the DuPage Forest Preserve website: the 2,503-acre Waterfall Glen Forest Preserve is one of the most ecologically impressive parcels of open space in the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County, if not northern Illinois. It is also one of the District’s most popular forest preserves, known for its Rocky Glen waterfall, Sawmill Creek bluff overlook, and extensive trails. Waterfall Glen offers gently rolling to hilly terrain with 11 miles of trails popular with hikers, bicyclists, horseback riders and cross-country skiers.
More maps and info: [Waterfall Glen (dupageforest.org)](https://www.dupageforest.org/places-to-go/forest-preserves/waterfall-glen)
Hike Waterfall Glen from the Main Parking Lot, 6 miles or more or less