Forest Park Nature Preserve
Forest Park Nature Preserve is a park in Peoria, Illinois. Forest Park Nature Preserve is situated nearby to the hamlet Keller, as well as near Sankoty.Photo: NatFee, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Forest Park Nature Center and Peoria Heights High School.
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.
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.
Owens Center
Ice rink
Photo: NatFee, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Owens Center is a multi-purpose ice arena and recreational facility located in Peoria, Illinois. The Owens Center is a part of the Peoria Park District. Owens Center is situated 2 miles southwest of Forest Park Nature Preserve.
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 3½ miles north of Forest Park 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 4½ miles northwest of Forest Park Nature Preserve.
Forest Park Nature Preserve
- Type: Park
- Description: park in the United States of America
- Category: recreation area
- Location: Peoria, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.76306° or 40° 45′ 47″ northLongitude
-89.58167° or 89° 34′ 54″ westElevation
692 feet (211 metres)Open location code
86GGQC79+68OpenStreetMap ID
node 354278025OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=park
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
“Forest Park Nature Preserve” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Forest Park Nature Preserve”
Localities in the Area
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