Vermont Cemetery Field Trip
Public Welcome Free Event Nature Walk/Hike Wheelchair Accessible Public Restroom Free Public Parking
Board member of the Friends of Illinois Nature Preserves, botanist, educator, and nature photographer, Jack Shouba, will be our guide as we visit Vermont Cemetery, a one-acre high-quality prairie surrounded by tallgrass prairie.
The 38-acre preserve was acquired by the Forest Preserve District of Will County between 1998-2012
Prior to acquisition, it was a cemetery for early settlers of Wheatland Township. The cemetery has been preserved, along with the prairie that surrounds it. There is a one-acre high quality prairie section of the site, which has been dedicated as an Illinois Nature Preserve.
Meet between 9:30-9:45 am at the circular parking lot off Normantown Rd. south of Wolfs Crossing Road, in Naperville. We will walk to the preserve with as a group. Click here for a map to our meeting place.
Carpool if you can - this is a small parking lot. If it is full, you can go back to Wolf’s Crossing Road and use the larger park district lot. Then, walk the Nature Trail to Vermont Cemetery. Click here for a map to overflow parking.