Plan Your Visit
Plan Your Visit to Crooked Creek and Palos
Crooked Creek traverses several sites that comprise the Palos Sag-Valley region of Cook County. A map and full list of the all the woods, sloughs, lakes, and points of interest in the Palos and Sag Valley divisions of the Forest Preserves of Cook County can be downloaded here.
To explore the Palos Preserves, a good place to start is the Little Red School House Nature Center.
Driving: Click here for driving directions to the Little Red School House Nature Center.
CTA & PACE: Click here for information to take public transit to the Little Red School House Nature Center via the CTA Red Line and PACE bus service. Use the Schedule Explorer for route options. More transit directions can be obtained from https://www.transitchicago.com/.
MAP: Click here to access a Google Map of where Crooked Creek flows into Saganashkee Slough.
- Chicago-Calumet River System Mapping
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Inside, Out & About - A Year Along the Chicago-Calumet River
- Inside, Out & About: An Invitation to Explore
- Inside, Out, & About Podcast
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STORY 1: Chicago Portage National Historic Site/Sitio Histórico Nacional de Chicago Portage
- Hablas Español?
- Take a Virtual Guided Walk In the Woods at the Chicago Portage
- Diversión y actividades familiares
- Get to Know the North American Beaver
- Conozca al Castor Norteamericano
- Get to Know a Bur Oak
- Conozca el Bur Oak
- Community Group Connections
- Conexiones de Grupos Comunitarios
- Finding Health and Wellness with a Walk in the Woods
- Encuentra salud y felicidad con un paseo por el bosque
- STORY 2: Kickapoo Woods/Bosque Kickapoo
- STORY 3 Bubbly Creek
- STORY 4: Beaubien Woods
- STORY 5: LaBagh Woods
- STORY 6: Big Marsh Park/El Parque Big Marsh
- STORY 7: Wampum Lake/Lago Wampum
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STORY 8: Whistler Woods
- Habla español? Whistler Woods
- Get to Know Channel Catfish
- Conozca el Pez Gato Americano
- Get to Know Aquatic Plants
- Conozca las Plantas Acuáticas
- Wellness: Outdoors at Whistler Woods
- Bienestar: Al aire libre en el Whistler Woods
- Community Connections
- Conexiones Comunitarias
- Plan Your Visit
- Planifique Su Visita
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STORY 9: Crooked Creek
- Crooked Creek – La Belleza Fluida Del Valle de Palos-Sag
- Get to Know Hine’s Emerald Dragonfly
- Conozca la Libélula Esmeralda de Hine
- Get to Know the American Hazelnut
- Conozca el Avellano Americano
- Bogs, Sloughs, Marshes, and Fens
- Las Ciénagas, los Pantanos y las Marismas?
- Wellness at Crooked Creek and Palos
- Bienestar: Salga al aire libre en Crooked Creek y Palos
- Community Connections
- Conexiones Comunitarias
- Plan Your Visit
- Planifique Su Visita
- STORY 10: Inspiring Leaders and Ideas
- STORY 11: An Opportunity for Water in Cities
- Story 12: The Beauty of Dark Sky Places
- Story 13: Nature Inspires Art
- River Ecology and Wildlife
- Chicago River Recreation
- McCormick Bridgehouse & Chicago River Museum
- Tunnel and Reservoir Plan
- Resources
- Video Resources