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The Great Outdoors, Right Next Door
TRIPS TO OTHER AREA RIVERS
- Des Plaines River day trips
- $40 / person in a canoe or tandem kayak; $50 / person in a single kayak
- Northwest Suburban - Riverwoods (Rivershire Park) to Des Plaines (near Euclid). This is a longer trip through the forest preserves
starting in Lake County.
- August 31 - 10:00 launch
- Little Calumet River day trips This trip is organized as part of Paddle-a-Trail Month, highlighting an interesting but little
paddled portion of the Norther Illinois Water Trail.
- Bald eagles have been observed attempting to nest along the Little Calumet in recent years, the closest to Chicago that a nest has been seen in a century.
- We'll put in at Gouwens Park in South Holland and paddle to Fays Point in Blue Island
- The trip is about 6 miles, or 2 hours.
- $40/ person in a canoe or tandem kayak, $50/ person in a single kayak
- Find more information on "Paddle a Trail Month"
- Saturday, September 20 - 10:00 launch
- Kankakee River Paddle & Crane Viewing - Each fall, all the Sandhill Cranes of the upper Midwest fly south,
stopping over at a single preserve in Northwest Indiana for a month of socializing and courtship. We’ll head over to
paddle a stretch of the Kankakee River, where we may see some cranes and other
migrants, then swing by the Jasper-Pulaski preserve for the sunset spectacle of as many as 15,000 cranes returning
from their daily feeding grounds.
- October & November, '08 - TBA
- paddling starts at midday; crane viewing from an hour before sunset; (the hours vary a bit from day to day with the sunset)
- Make Reservations at 773 704-2663 or at our e-mail
- $40 / person in canoes & tandems
- $50 / person in singles
- We'll provide transportation for a $10 contribution to gas.
- Bring binoculars if you have them! And a camera.
Des Plaines River photo by Seth Stein
Kankakee photos by Shigeyo Henriquez
Kankakee Photo by Tom Cronin
