OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS 



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Visitors arriving by the Lake Zurich 

 railroad alight in the very midst of the 

 preserve's spots of foremost interest. The 

 railroad station is within the preserve 

 itself. Camp Reinberg and all its attract- 

 ive features are found just east of the 

 railroad. 



To the west just across the pictur- 

 esque Lake Zurich road winding its way 

 through the woodland there is the deer 



park and the sheep graze. By following the plainly marked 

 Indian trail, now a picknickers' trail, one comes to the twenty- 

 five acre lake which the board was able to construct by the simple 

 erection of a dam. 



On the banks of this artificial lake, created at the cost of a 

 few dollars, there are acres upon acres of picnicking spots which 

 once they become known to the citizens of Cook County will be 

 always a lure for them. There are to be found boating facili- 

 ties which are being added to as quickly as possible. 



From the lake, going still further west or further north the 

 explorer comes into his own. Here are hundreds upon hun- 

 dreds of acres of virgin timberland, so primitive in fact as to 

 give one the idea that Redskin warriors might be expected to 

 leap out from behind trees any minute. 



The fact that Indians did haunt these same ravines, main- 

 taining lookouts on every peak and crag, will lend the territory 

 an added interest to the majority of visitors. Indeed there is, 

 in these secluded tracts, every opportunity for research work 

 which will be encouraged by the board. 



Visitors driving to the tract will 

 will find the main entrance at the south- 

 east corner where the houses of the 

 caretakers are located. On the western 

 end, also, where the Dundee road skirts 

 the preserve there is a much used en- 

 trance. There is a road dartirrg its way 

 inward. 



