Camp Sites and
Camping Facilities & Resources
in Chicago Wilderness

See our article, "Into the Wild: Camping in Chicago Wilderness," Summer 2004

Illinois State Parks

• Des Plaines State Fish and Wildlife Area, Wilmington
  (815) 423-5326
• Gebhard Woods State Park, Morris
  (815) 942-0796
• I&M Canal Channahon Access, Channahon
  See Camping in the Illinois & Michigan Canal National Heritage Corridor for this and other sites
  (815) 467-4271
• Chain O'Lakes State Park, Spring Grove
  (847) 587-5512

Forest Preserve District of Will County
(815) 727-8700

• Forked Creek–Forsythe Woods, Wilmington
• Hammel Woods, Shorewood
• Goodenow Grove, south of Crete
• Messenger Woods Nature Preserve, Lockport

Kane County Forest Preserve District

• Burnidge & Paul Wolff, Elgin
  (847) 888-1361
• Buffalo Park, Algonquin
  (847) 658-1188

McHenry County Conservation District
(815) 338-6223

• Marengo Ridge Conservation Area, Thomas Woods, Marengo (overview/trail map, pdf)
• Beck's Woods, Chemung (overview/trail map, pdf)
• Harrison Benwell, Wonder Lake (overview/trail map, pdf)
• Hickory Grove-Riverfront, Cary (overview/trail map, pdf)
• The Hollows, Cary (overview/trail map, pdf)
• Rush Creek, Harvard (overview/trail map, pdf)