Agencies
Services
Nature Preserve Area
1
County
Winnebago
Location And Access
From Durand, take Center Road north 2.2 mi. to Yale Bridge Road, then turn and go west 1.7 mi. to Anderson Road, then turn and go north 0.3 mi. to Laona Heights Forest Preserve. The nature preserve is in the forest preserve and is west of the road.
Description
Laona Heights is an example of dry-mesic upland forest once common in the Freeport Section of the Rock River Hill Country Natural Division. The preserve is located in the rolling uplands above the Otter Creek floodplain. Here, the native forest community is dominated by white oak, white ash, and basswood, but sugar maple prevails in the damper ravine. A rich herbaceous understory includes bloodroot, prairie trillium, bellwort and puttyroot. Data from this area was included in the classic book Vegetation of Wisconsin by John T. Curtis.
Ownership
Winnebago County Forest Preserve District
Dedicated
September 1982
Size
19.5 acres
Topographic Quad
Durand
Topo Map
For Further Information
Winnebago County Forest Preserve District, 5500 Northrock Dr., Rockford, IL 61103 (815/887-6100)
1/2009 - R. Heidorn