Blackhawk Waterways - includes (in addition to other facilities)):
 Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife & Fish Refuge - 7071 Riverview Road, Thomson, IL  815/273-2732.  
    Call for hours and days of operation, as well as admission info.  Boating, camping, fishing, and other outdoor activities.
 Thomson Causeway Recreation Area - Lewis Lane, Thomson, IL  815/259-3628.  U.S. Army Corps of 
    Engineers recreation site.  Open 4/13/01 to 10/28/01, call for hours of operation and admission info.  Hiking, 
    picnicking, fishing, and other outdoor activities.
 Mississippi Palisades - 16327A IL Rte. 84, Savanna, IL 61074,  815/273-2731.  Call for hours and admission 
    information.  Groups of 25 or more must make reservations.  One adult minimum for each 15 minors.  Hiking, 
    picnicking, boating, fishing, and more.  Indian Head and Twin Sisters Rock formations.
Carroll County Historical Society - Owen P. Miles Museum, 107 W. Broadway, Mount Carroll, IL  61053, 815/244-3474.  Call for hours of operation and admissions info.  Carroll County history and life in the 19th century.
Thomson Depot Museum - Main Street, Thomson, IL  815/259-7378.  Memorial Day to October Friday through Sunday 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.  Railroad depot museum.
Timber Lake Playhouse - 8215 Black Oak Rd, Mount Carroll, IL  61053, 815/244-2035.  Call for current schedule and admission info.  Summer theater, including children's theater performances.

PLEASE NOTE:  It should go without saying, but HOUSE assumes absolutely no responsibility for anything that occurs while you are partaking of a field trip with your family.  In addition, please contact the site of your field trip before you go to verify that you have current information on hours, admission prices, and other details.  The field trip information herein has been gathered in an exhaustive search of the various counties and localities on the web.  The information is thus only as accurate and current as the information on the various web sites from which it was gathered.

If you have information about field trip possibilities in your area, please drop us an email at admin@illinoishouse.org and let us know about it, including the county name, so that we can review and possibly include it in our Field Trip Idea pages.  If you have a brochure about a field trip site that you would like to mail to us, please mail it to c/o P.O. Box 74, Ringwood, IL  60072

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