Spring Creek Reservoir

Revised forest preserve hours: Open one hour after sunrise until sunset

The 90-acre Spring Creek Reservoir Forest Preserve in Bloomingdale offers an asphalt trail with benches for wildlife viewing, picnicking and fishing. The trail is a great 20-minute lunchtime loop around the reservoir. .

Natural Scene

Trails

With a half mile of shoreline and several benches along a 1-mile asphalt trail, Spring Creek Reservoir is ideal for walking, jogging, bicycling or in-line skating and offers a great 20-minute lunchtime loop. More than a mile of hard-surfaced trail is accessible to individuals with wheelchairs. 

Picnicking

Spring Creek Reservoir has several picnic tables and grassy areas where you can spread a blanket. Ground fires are not allowed, but you can bring grills. (The preserve has hot-coal containers for charcoal.)

Groups can reserve the 50-person picnic shelter as well. Details are on our Picnicking page.

Fishing

You can fish for bass, catfish, bluegill and sunfish at the 17-acre reservoir, which is 15 feet deep on average but can reach 55 feet during floods, when it stores stormwater from Springbrook Creek. Because of these unpredictable fluctuating water levels, ice fishing is not allowed at Spring Creek Reservoir.

Anglers 16 or older who are not legally disabled must carry valid Illinois fishing licenses. Lake maps and regulations, including creel limits and minimum lengths, are on our Fishing page.

History

In presettlement times, the forest preserve was almost entirely woodland with a small slough. It was a gravel pit from the 1950s to the mid-1970s, when it became a reservoir. The Forest Preserve District acquired the reservoir in 1987 and additional parcels in 1999 and 2000.