Northern Kane County Wild Ones to tour Kaneville Esker

Posted May 23, 2017 1:00 am

Northern Kane County Wild Ones

Join Northern Kane County Wild Ones for a tour of Bliss Woods in Sugar Grove on Saturday, May 27, at Bliss Woods Forest Preserve, 5S660 Bliss Road in Sugar Grove. Meet with naturalist Jon Duerr at 10 a.m. in the parking lot at the entrance to Bliss Woods, off Bliss Road. Turn right as you come in to the larger parking lot.

This tour will be botanical as well as geological.

Participants will walk along the bike path as well as an old abandoned road where plants are growing in the spaces. See many beautiful woodland native plants.

At the end, attendees will drive 5 miles to the west to see the Kaneville Esker. There is only a remnant of the Kaneville Esker remaining, as it and other eskers have been mined for sand and gravel. An esker is a winding ridge of gravel and rocks created by a river of water flowing underneath a melting glacier about 13,000 years ago.

To sign up, visit northernkanecounty.wildones.org.

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