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Nature Preserve Area
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County
Kane
Location And Access
The site is in northwestern Kane County in Burlington Township near the Village of Burlington. It is specifically north of the Illinois Central Railroad and west of Engel Road. Trails wind through the prairie for hikers and walkers. A small gravel lot exists south of the railroad tracks that is used for parking. North of the tracks, a limestone road enters the Burlington Prairie Forest Preserve and leads to a paved parking lot with a shelter and bathroom.
Description
Burlington Prairie Nature Preserve contains high-quality sedge meadow and wet prairie communities along with adjacent mesic prairie and cattail marsh. The site also contains pockets of oak woodlands at the top of the hills and prairie recreation. The site is recognized by the Illinois Natural Areas Inventory (INAI #0020) for extant high-quality mesic prairie. The wet-mesic prairie supports large populations of big bluestem, panicled aster, bottled gentian, stiff gentian, yellow star grass, prairie blazing star, swamp betony, common mint, early wild rose, prairie dock, common blue-eyed grass, grass-leaved goldenrod, and dene ladies’ tresses. There have been 195 plant species documented from Burlington Prairie.
Ownership
Forest Preserve District of Kane County
Dedicated
August 1993
Size
11.4 acres
Topographic Quad
Hampshire
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For Further Information
Visit the Forest Preserve District of Kane County Website or Contact the INPC
Illinois Nature Preserves Commission
One Natural Resources Way
Springfield, IL 62702
217-785-8686