East Branch Riverway Forest Preserve in Glen Ellyn is a 129-acre complex of wetlands surrounding the East Branch DuPage River. The marshes provide water detention across two miles along Interstate 355 and feature a wide variety of rushes, milkweeds and sedges, and regionally rare species such as pickerel weed and swamp rose mallow.
The forest preserve attracts state-endangered black-crowned night-herons and rare pied-billed grebes, northern rough-winged swallows and common nighthawks. Spotted sandpipers and mallards have been observed nesting here, and beavers, mink, muskrat, bullfrog, common whitetail dragonfly and giant floater mussel are also known to frequent this preserve.
East Branch Riverway is on Roosevelt Road, 0.25 mile west of Interstate 355. It does not have a parking lot.
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The preserve is open daily from one hour after sunrise until one hour after sunset. Dogs must be on leashes under 10 feet long, and alcohol is prohibited. Read our Rules & Regulations.
3S580 Naperville Road
Wheaton, IL 60189
Visitor Services
Monday – Friday
8 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Saturdays through Aug. 27
(except July 2)
9 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Phone: 630-933-7200
Email: forest@dupageforest.org
Police: 630-933-7240
Email: police@dupageforest.org
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