Fullersburg Woods Nature Education Center offers an introduction to the local environment and its native plants and animals. Explore Salt Creek and learn how to identify common animals and their tracks. Get up close to a 13,000-year-old skeleton of a woolly mammoth or use microscopes and spotting scopes to examine creatures that call DuPage County home today. Pick up a nature backpack and head out on the trail to explore nature.
Scheduled programs for individuals, families, and groups focus on natural resources and feature activities from tapping maple trees, identifying spring wildflowers to tracking resident and migrant wildlife. Kids can enjoy hands-on experiences with day camps, and Scout programs can earn badges while enjoying the outdoors.
Groups can also plan special excursions with our Find It at Fullersburg program.
Southeast of the center within the surrounding Fullersburg Woods Forest Preserve is historic Graue Mill and Museum, the only operating waterwheel gristmill in Illinois. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the mill is home to programs on milling, spinning, and weaving that illustrate life between 1850 and 1890 and the effect mills had on the area’s culture.
