The 15-acre Goodrich Woods in Naperville is an oak woodland bisected by a meandering stream. It features trails and interpretive signs and is near the West Branch DuPage River Regional Trail, which parallels Washington Street. It has two wooden footbridges that cross the stream and a gravel parking lot.
Several regionally rare plants grow at Goodrich Woods, such as yellow trout lily, pagoda dogwood and toad trillium. A variety of birds forage and nest here, too, including state or regionally rare red-headed woodpeckers, yellow-billed cuckoos, broad-winged hawks and wood thrushes. Ecologists have recorded mourning cloak butterflies, ebony jewelwing damselflies and 17-year cicadas among the site's hundreds of invertebrates.
Driving Directions
Goodrich Woods is on the south side of Hobson Road, north of 75th Street and west of Naper Boulevard.
