Most Popular Trails in Illinois     hiking, road biking, mountain biking, walking, running,       Busse Woods Arlington Heights, IL-Busse Woods is one of eight bicycle trails in Chicago's Cook County and definitely one of the best. You'll be in and out of dark forests and open fields for most of the trail while patches of Busse Lake come and go. There are no hills-just winding pavementHiking Trails   © Copyright Christopher Percy Collier Published by The Globe Pequot Press. All Rights Reserved.           Little Grand Canyon Murphysboro, IL-Little Grand Canyon is a little-known hideaway that’s worth the drive from St. Louis. You’ll hike down stone steps cut in steep, fantastically-eroded slickrock chutes, into a moist bottomland guarded by 300-foot cliffs. Your reward for climbing out of the canyon’s depths is a panoramic view of the Mississippi River valley and the distant Missouri hillsHiking Trails   © Copyright Steve Henry Published by Menasha Ridge Press. All Rights Reserved.           Brookfield Zoo - Chicago Chicago, IL-Located about 15 miles west of downtown Chicago in the suburb of Brookfield, the Brookfield Zoo is the largest zoo in the greater Chicago area. More than 2,500 animals of all types live within 215 acres of carefully re-created habitatsHiking Trails   © Copyright John L. Pape Published by Falcon Publishing. All Rights Reserved.           Rock Cut State Park Loves Park, IL-There are ten miles of trails at Rock Cur, seven of which are open to mountain bikers--the cross-country ski trails. The mostly dirt trails are well maintained; in the winter months, park workers clear the trails for the cross-country skiersHiking Trails   © Copyright Richard Ries & Dave Shepherd Published by Menasha Ridge Press. All Rights Reserved.           Deer Grove Palatine, IL-While there is a paved bicycle trail in the forest preserve, the real excitement is on the cross-country ski trail. Even though this wide, 8.5-mile multiple-loop trail has paved sections, the majority of it is dirt. if you want even more exhilaration, you might explore the various dirt single-track spurs you'll find off the main trail. The single-track is narrower and hillier than the main trail. Hiking Trails   © Copyright Richard Ries & Dave Shepherd Published by Menasha Ridge Press. All Rights Reserved.           Des Plaines River Trail South Lincolnshire, IL-Located off state highway 22 in Lincolnshire. Running parallel to the Des Plaines River for most of the route, this trail will give you an easy ride along its crushed gravel surface. You'll pass through woods, fields, and marshes with many views of the lazy Des Plaines RiverHiking Trails   © Copyright Richard Ries & Dave Shepherd Published by Menasha Ridge Press. All Rights Reserved.           Fults Hill Prairie Nature Preserve, Fults, IL -This place will make you stop to catch your breath—from both steep climbs on the trail, and expansive bluff views of the Mississippi River Valley. Falls Fults Hill is definitely not your typical prairie. Don’t expect the low swells of central Illinois or northern Missouri prairies in this nature preserve.Hiking Trails   © Copyright Steve Henry Published by Menasha Ridge Press. All Rights Reserved.           Starved Rock State Park: Take a Hike Utica, IL-Starved Rock, one of the state’s most popular attractions, now includes a complex that could compete with some of the best luxury resorts from Lake Geneva to Upper Michigan, and at a fraction of the price. Swimming is no longer relegated to some slippery riverbank; the lodge’s new wing, completed in 1989, offers an Olympic-size pool, flanked by whirlpool, sauna, and kiddie poolHiking Trails   © Copyright Bonnie Miller Rubin, Marcy Mason Published by The Globe Pequot Press. All Rights Reserved.           View more popular Illinois trails. Hiking Trails

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North American wonders reach from from the lofty peaks of the Cascade Mountain range to the watery paradise of Florida's Everglades. The South American natural forces can be witnessed in countless forms--you'll find them cascading over the Devil's Throat of the Iguazu Falls, flooding Llanos grasslands. The Australian Great Barrier Reef stretches to Papua New Guinea, while New Zealand's Tongariro volcano towers above waves of rugged hills. The African Congo Basin is a network of swamps and emerald forests as diverse as the four counterpoints it unifies. The European and Middle Eastern natural histories include building castles on its rocky peaks, painting frescoes in its caves, trading through its passes, and perishing at its mercy. The European and Middle Eastern natural histories include building castles on its rocky peaks, painting frescoes in its caves, trading through its passes, and perishing at its mercy. The dual Asian power of nature is demonstrated through the elements at play in Asia. Fire-spewing volcanoes raise new lands from their summits.Ocean-worlds house water-kingdoms. Finally earth-bound and sky-stretching mountains--figures of inspiration. The Polar Regions are an icy wilderness where the frozen fingertips of polar icecaps feel their way across stretches of land and water, the Arctic and Antarctic form the polar regions of our globe.