Trail Section 18 — Old Plank Road Trail/Wolf Road to Eggers Woods/112th Street

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Point-of-Interest

All of these natural area sites are based on dunes and swales left during a much deeper phase of Lake Michigan, and are populated by rare prairie, wetland and savanna plant and animal species.

• Sand Ridge Nature Center and Nature Preserve
• Wentworth Prairie
• Burnham Prairie
• Calumet City Prairie
• Powderhorn Prairie
• Eggers Woods

William Powers State Conservation Area

• A nice relaxing place for lunch by Wolf Lake and its swans. A visitor’s center will soon be built here. William Powers, Eggers Woods, and Powderhorn Prairie collectively is the most biologically rich area in Illinois as inventoried in 2002 during the "Biodiversity Blitz"

Ford Auto Plant

• One of Ford’s most technologically advanced plants and the major employer of the southeast side of Chicago

Accommodations - Motel/Hotel/B&B

Lansing

• Red Roof Inn, 2450 East 173rd St., (two blocks west of the GIT off Bernice Rd. just north of the I-80 underpass) 708-895-9570
• Ramada, 17301 Oak Ave., (next to the Red Roof Inn listed above) 708-474-6900