Amboy Depot Museum - 50 N. East Avenue, Amboy, IL  61310, 815/857-3814.  May through September Santurday 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.; Sunday 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.  Railroad and local history.  Locomotive outside.
Blackhawk Waterways - including:
 Franklin Creek Natural Area - 1872 Twist Road, Franklin Grove, IL 61031,  815/456-2878.  Call for hours of 
 operation and admission info.  Picnicking, hiking, fishing, and more.
 Green River State Wildlife Area - 375 Game Road, Harmon, IL 61042, 815/379-2324.  Call for hours of operation 
 and admission info.  Camping, hiking, picnicking, grist mill, and more.
 Nachusa Grasslands - 2055 Lowden Road, Franklin Grove, IL,  815/456-2340.  Run by the Nature Conservancy.  
 Hiking and bird-watching.
John Deere Plow Works - 8393 S. Main, Grand Detour, IL,  815/652-4551.  April through October daily 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.  Call for admission.  Restored home, smith shops, history of Deere plows.
Loveland Museum - 513 W. Second St., Dixon, IL,  815/284-2741.  Wednesday through Friday 9 a.m. to noon; First Saturday of every month 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.  Free admission.  Local history.
Ronald Reagan's Boyhood Home - 816 S. Hennepin Ave., Dixon, IL,  815/288-3404.  March through November: Monday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Sunday 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.  December through February:  Weekends only.  Tour includes re-telling of Reagan's life in Dixon.

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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