Ottawa Park Dept Travel Information (Ottawa, IL)

Starved Rock State Park: Take a Hike 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 p... Utica, IL

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Buffalo Rock State Park Hike (Distance: 3.8 mi) Located on a bluff overlooking the Illinois River, this small but charming park is home to an enormous outdoor sculpture. Mounds representing five different creatures invite visitors to walk around an...

Naplate, IL - Hiking - length:2.5 mi

Starved Rock State Park: East Hike (Distance: 5.8 mi) This eastern section of Starved Rock State Park offers canyons galore, each with slightly different shapes, sizes, and colorings. Cool and shady, overgrown with ferns, trees, and flowering plants, the...

Ottawa, IL - Hiking - length:6.4 mi

Starved Rock and Matthiessen State Parks (Distance: 6.9 mi) Like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, you might enter Starved Rock State Park along the Illinois River just south of Utica and exclaim, “I have a feeling we’re not in Illinois anymore.” This state park fi...

Ottawa, IL - Birding - length:unknown

Starved RocK State Park: West Hike (Distance: 8.1 mi) After hiking through deep sandstone canyons, you’ll encounter a series of overlooks from the wooded bluffs and rocky cliffs high above the Illinois River. This classic northeastern Illinois hike requi...

Ottawa, IL - Hiking - length:2.9 mi

Matthiessen State Park Dells Area Hike (Distance: 10.2 mi) Formerly a private retreat for a local industrialist, the highlight of Matthiessen State Park is a narrow, mile-long canyon carved in sandstone by a stream. Beginning at the dam and lake at one end of...

Oglesby, IL - Hiking - length:2.2 mi

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Dayton Ridge Dayton Ridge Golf Club Public, 9 holes 3050 yards, par 36 2.7 miles from center of Ottawa Park Dept

Pine Hills Pine Hills Golf Club Public, 9 holes 3203 yards, par 35 3.5 miles from center of Ottawa Park Dept

Prairie Lake Prairie Lake Golf Club Public, 9 holes 3218 yards, par 37 7.2 miles from center of Ottawa Park Dept

Bourne The Bourne Public, 18 holes 6355 yards, par 72 9.2 miles from center of Ottawa Park Dept

Deer Park Deer Park Country Club, Inc. Private Equity, 18 holes 6378 yards, par 71 10.2 miles from center of Ottawa Park Dept

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