Agencies
Services
Nature Preserve Area
3
County
Cook
Location And Access
For access/tours call: 630-257-2045 Special Note: Access to this preserve is by prior permission only. From Palos Park at jct. Hwys. 7 & 83 (Calumet Sag Road), take Calumet Sag Road west 6 mile to entrance to Camp Sagawau, then north and east to Camp Sagawau. The nature preserve is to the southeast of the entrance road.
Description
Sagawau Canyon is located in the Des Plaines River Valley. The preserve has high quality dolomite canyon, cliff and ravine forests of the Morainal Section of the Northeastern Morainal Natural Division. The cliff community supports some of the most unusual and uncommon plants found in northeastern Illinois, including the bulblet fern, purple cliff brake, walking fern, hairy rock cress and ninebark. Special Note: Access to this preserve is by prior permission only.
Ownership
Forest Preserve District of Cook County
Dedicated
June 1984
Size
171.69 acres with buffer
Topographic Quad
Sag Bridge
Topo Map
For Further Information
Contact: Forest Preserve District Of Cook County, c/o Conservation Department, 536 North Harlem Ave., River Forest, IL 60305
(800) 870-3666