Fullersburg Woods Nature Center and Graue Mill

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Fullersburg Woods Nature Center and Graue Mill

Photo: JosephRoberto · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

🥾 Hike · Oak Brook

2 hours · Free · No reservation needed

age fit
0–1 yr
★ 4.0
1–3 yrs
★ 4.0
3–5 yrs
★ 4.0
5–10 yrs
★ 4.0
  • 🚗
    About 25 min drive
    From Naperville · Parking: Free nature center lot (3609 Spring Rd)
  • 🍼
    Stroller-friendly
    Flat surfaces — bring the stroller
  • 🌳
    Lots of shade
    Great on sunny days · Good on cool days · Rain-OK
  • ⏱️
    Typical visit: 2 hours
    Best seasons: Spring · Summer · Fall

Woods along Salt Creek with a 13,000-year-old mammoth skeleton in the nature education center, creek and ducks just down the slope from the door, and a 1.3-mile loop along the water to the 1852 Graue Mill, where you can watch the big waterwheel turn.

💡 Tips
Most of the loop is flat gravel and stroller-friendly; the Graue Mill museum is open weekends April through November with admission (check the website), while looking at the waterwheel from outside is free. The handiest free half-day around Hinsdale.

What this place offers

✓nature center
✓mammoth skeleton
✓creek
✓water mill
✓loop trail
✓free
✓restrooms

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This weekend's weather in Oak Brook

Forecast at the destination itself (coast and hills often differ from home)

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Sat 10/17
Sunny · 35–56°F · 1% rain
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Sun 10/18
Sunny · 45–62°F · 0% rain

Location

Oak Brook, Illinois

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