11-22-11 Kilbuck Bluffs Forest Preserve

Note the park map is oriented with north to the right.

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It was drizzling thoughout our visit here. Not much in the way of mapped trails here but a great view of the creek from the top of the bluffs. It is worth coming to see just for that.

The park map does not show them but there are outhouses near each of the shelters. The one next to the Edgewood shelter looks to be like the fancy new one like we saw at Countyline FP the previous day.

The trail shown on the downloaded map is not shown on the map posted at the park. It basically goes down the side of a hill near each shelter to the creek, and then back up the hill to the other shelter a few hundred yards away. About 25-30 steps is involved at each end. We went up and down twice, so got 100+ steps in. The trail has a large tree that has fallen over it. But it is possible to walk around it.

Downstream a ways is a picnic table out on a rocky outcropping along the creek edge, but there is a large tree fallen in front of it that impedes access.

Given the nature of this property, it would be quite possible to bush whack around if I had not been tied to a beagle with her own ideas of how to get around inside the forest. I may come back sometime without her and explore some.

We drove through the park and went to the other side of the road to visit the rest of the park to the west. The park map says there is an outhouse and well there. The outhouse is about where the map shows the well, but we never saw a well on that end of the park, despite driving the road loop twice.

I never saw either well the map claims are on the east side of the park, although the outhouse shown on the map is there next to a baseball field that you can see if you look real close on the park map, but I think the outhouse is actually on the other side of the baseball field. I did not look real close for either of these wells so they may be there. One is shown in an odd spot off the road so it might not be readily visible from the road. The other is shown near one of the shelters and I did not see it, if it is there, even though I would have been within 20 feet of where the map shows it. But I really was not looking for ether of them. They may be there and I just did not see them.