York Woods Revisited: October 3, 2012

Our walks have grown less frequent and less exciting with the change in weather. As the sun is setting sooner, we normally walk near our house or use the stationary bike inside. But with the leaves turning we will try to revisit some locations to show how beautiful they look in other seasons.

My husband and I normally carpool as our workplaces are in the same town and it saves gas, which is ever important in this economy. When we drive separately for various reasons, I have been trying to stop by York Woods in order to get a quick walk in before going to pick up the boys.

Yesterday as I was walking along, admiring the color of the trees, I came across a deer on the path! Since York woods is quite small (you can usually see a road through the trees on any part of the path) the normal wildlife is squirrels and birds. So I had to take some pictures so I could share them with you. I also took some pictures of the beautiful colors along the path.

York Woods: June 18, 2012

York Woods is off of York and Harger Rd, in Oak Brook IL. It's a small forest preserve, and only has one small trail- maybe 1 to 1.5 miles long, but adding in that it is about a mile from my work I got a good 2.85 miles out of it.

There isn't a sidewalk on part of the walk from work to the preserve on Harger road, so I would suggest driving and parking and the just looping the trail a few times if you're walking around rush hour (which I was).

The whole trail is part of the Salt Creek trail, even though you don't really see the creek here. It is paved and relatively flat, only one with a steeper hill, and if you go north and then east, you can make sure you are going downhill rather than up.

Not much in the way of wildlife- some birds and butterflies. I almost got a picture of a butterfly but my phone was too slow to load the camera.

All in all a beautiful walk not far from work, worth doing during a long lunch break, or after a stressful day.