Hiking/Biking/Recreation

• African-American Heritage Water Trail
• Alltrails.com
• Forest Preserves of Cook County trails
• Forest Preserve District of DuPage County trails
• Forest Preserve District of Will County
• Indiana Department of Natural Resources trails
• Kane County bike map and recreation
• McHenry County Conservation District trails
• Michigan Department of Natural Resources
• Openlands Get Outside map
• Paddle Illinois Water Trails
• Rails to Trails
• Your Local Outdoors (Michigan)

Nature-based fun with your family

Thanks to our Partners and others, here are activities to keep your family entertained and educated while enjoying the outdoors.  

• AAA Play: 50 Backyard Birds and the Sounds They Make
• Audubon Great Lakes: The Nest (activities, videos, webinars, webcams, and articles) and Great Lakes and Migratory Birds (virtual spring migration)
  
• Barrington Area Conservation Trust: Bringing Nature Home
• Big Green Chicago: Ready, Set, Grow Curriculum and Weekly Activities
• Bird Conservation Network: Monitor Chicago's Birds
• Bird and Bytes Webinar Series
• Birdsh^t podcast
• Boy Scouts of America: Pathways to Adventure
• Brushwood Center at Ryerson Woods: Face Mask Drive
• Chicago Audubon Society: Migration in Motion
• Chicago Botanic Garden: How-To Activities
• Chicago Children's Museum: Recipes for Play at Home
• Chicago Ornithological Society: The Cyber Birder (activities and live streams)
• Chicago Wildlife Watch
  
• Cornell Lab: Make Life Easier, Courtesy of Birds
• Cornell Lab: Online Guide to Birds and Birdwatching
• Cornell Lab: Beastbox (mix animal voices with beatbox loops)
• Dunes Learning Center: Nature Scavenger Hunt
• eBird Citizen Science to Track Birds (plus videos, games, lectures)
• Field Museum at Home
• FIeld Museum: Field Guides to Nature in Chicagoland
• Illinois Audubon Society: Spring Migration Dashboard
• iNaturalist: Citizen Science and Sidewalk Botanist Scavenger Hunt
• Lincoln Park Zoo: Teen Zoo Club
• McHenry County Conservation District: E-Learning Courses
• Morton Arboretum: Online Courses, Digital Library Resources and Nature-Based Learning in Place
• Naperville Park District: Meditations Podcast
• National Audubon Society: The Joy of Birds (activities, videos, webcams, and articles), Audubon for Kids, and Audubon para Niños
• National Environmental Education Foundation: Environmental Education at Home
• National Wildlife Federation: Destress While Helping Wildlife
• Nature Conservancy: Nature Lab (youth curriculum for students and parents)
• PBS: Schools Closed? Make a New Home Routine
• Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum: Nature Museum Comes to You (resources and activities)
• Ranger Rick: Stuck Indoors? 
• The Revelator: Wildlife webcams
• Sea Grant: Education at Home (state-specific information for MI and WI)
• Shedd Aquarium: Live Cam
• Sierra: Visit 5 National Parks Online
• Shape of the World podcast
• Skype a Scientist
• Tinkergarten (activities)
• Travel & Leisure: Live Zoo Webcams