Connect to Nature
Top News
Explore our day camps for kids entering first through eighth grades. Early registration is now open for DuPage residents!
Explore Summer Job Opportunities at Our Career Fair March 9
Learn about job openings, meet with staff from various departments, and interview in person
Save the Date for our Native Plant Sale May 17 & 18
Shop in person for native flowers, grasses, shrubs, and trees!
Volunteer Restoration Workdays
Various Dates, Times and Locations
Help improve a forest preserve prairie or woodland by collecting seeds or removing nonnative plants.
Master Plan & Other Projects
Get Involved
Volunteer
Share your time and talents to help restore habitats, care for wildlife, and host recreational and cultural programs by joining our corps of individual and group volunteers.
Be Our Friend
Your generosity sustains DuPage forest preserves and inspires the work we do to make them extraordinary places to visit.
Become a Community Partner
Partner with the nonprofit Friends of the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County to help connect people to nature.
Who We Are
To acquire and hold lands for the purpose of preserving the flora, fauna and scenic beauty for the education, pleasure and recreation of DuPage County citizens
Acres
Miles of Trails
Forest Preserves
Annual Visitors