Forest Park Nature Center
The Forest Park Nature Center is a staffed nature center in Peoria Heights, a suburb of Peoria, Illinois. The nature center and surrounding parkland is operated by the Peoria Park District to interpret and celebrate the elevational bluffs and oak savannahs of the Peoria Lake watershed, which in CE 1492 was one of the most fertile and productive ecosystems known to humankind.Photo: NatFee, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: NatFee, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Forest Park Nature Preserve and Peoria Heights High School.
Peoria Heights High School
School
Peoria Heights High School, or PHHS, is a public four-year high school located at 508 East Glen Avenue in Peoria Heights, Illinois, a village in Peoria County, in the Midwestern United States.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Peoria Heights and Mossville.
Peoria Heights
Hamlet
Photo: Roger Wollstadt, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Peoria Heights is a village lying in Peoria County in the U.S. state of Illinois. As of the 2020 census, Peoria Heights had a population of 5,908. Peoria Heights is a suburb of Peoria, is sometimes referred to as Uptown, and is surrounded by the city except for its eastern boundary on Peoria Lake, a relatively wider section of the Illinois River.
Mossville
Hamlet
Mossville is an unincorporated community and Census-designated place between Peoria and Chillicothe in Peoria County, Illinois, United States. Mossville is part of the Peoria, Illinois Metropolitan Statistical Area and resides closely to the northern part of Peoria. Mossville is situated 4 miles north of Forest Park Nature Center.
Peoria
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Peoria is a city in Illinois and the county seat of Peoria County. It serves as a regional hub for the primarily rural and agricultural center of the state.
Forest Park Nature Center
- Type: Park
- Description: nature center and forest area in Peoria County, Illinois
- Location: Peoria, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
“Forest Park Nature Center” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Forest Park Nature Center”
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