The 50-acre Salt Creek Greenway Forest Preserve in Elmhurst — a collection of disjointed parcels along 1.4 miles of Salt Creek — contains marshes, meadows, re-created prairies and wetlands, and a forest. The Elmhurst Park District operates more than 75 percent of the land that makes up Salt Creek Greenway.
Belted kingfishers, chimney swifts, northern rough-winged swallows, red-headed woodpeckers, spotted sandpipers and several other types of birds rely on Salt Creek Greenway for habitat as do beavers, coyotes, masked shrews, red foxes and spiny softshell turtles.
Salt Creek Greenway is east of Route 83 and south of St. Charles Road. It does not have a parking lot.
If you're paddling on Salt Creek, you can exit the water at the landing at Hunter Road, but you cannot put in there.
The Forest Preserve District purchased most of the preserve in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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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