Detweiller Woods Nature Preserve
Detweiller Woods Nature Preserve is a park in Peoria, Illinois which is located on North Galena Road. Detweiller Woods Nature Preserve is situated nearby to the hamlet Mossville, as well as near Keller.- Type: Park
- Description: park in the United States of America
- Also known as: “Detweiller Park”
- Address: 8327 North Galena Road, Peoria, IL
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Hawley Auxiliary Airport and Forest Park Nature Preserve.
Mount Hawley Auxiliary Airport
Aerodrome
Mount Hawley Auxiliary Airport is a public use airport located seven nautical miles north of the central business district of Peoria, a city in Peoria County, Illinois, United States. Mount Hawley Auxiliary Airport is situated 1½ miles west of Detweiller Woods Nature Preserve.
Forest Park Nature Preserve
Park
Photo: NatFee, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Forest Park Nature Preserve is situated 2 miles south of Detweiller Woods Nature Preserve.
Forest Park Nature Center
Photo: NatFee, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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. Forest Park Nature Center is situated 2½ miles south of Detweiller Woods Nature Preserve.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mossville and Alta.
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 2 miles northeast of Detweiller Woods Nature Preserve.
Alta
Hamlet
Alta is an unincorporated community on the northwest border of Peoria in Peoria County, Illinois, United States. Alta is 8 miles north-northwest of downtown Peoria. Alta is situated 3 miles northwest of Detweiller Woods Nature Preserve.
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. Peoria Heights is situated 3 miles south of Detweiller Woods Nature Preserve.
Detweiller Woods Nature Preserve
- Category: recreation area
- Location: Peoria, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.79026° or 40° 47′ 25″ northLongitude
-89.58727° or 89° 35′ 14″ westElevation
643 feet (196 metres)Operator
Peoria Park DistrictOpen location code
86GGQCR7+43OpenStreetMap ID
way 39875432OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=parkGeoNames ID
6348221Wikidata ID
Q34866961
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In Other Languages
“Detweiller Woods Nature Preserve” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Detweiller Woods Nature Preserve”
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