Fort Sheridan Forest Preserve

Forest Preserve, lake shore and decommissioned fort/upscale neighborhood.

This is a good outdoor experience any time the weather suits. We now have family in this area, and explored a little. Ft Sheridan was previously a working fort with all kinds of housing, a large tower...

Visit the beach (but don’t swim)

We followed a map to Lake Michigan & it took us through Fort Sheridan. This place was amazing. Huge homes, a look-out tower, pristinely manicured grounds. You won’t find any riff-raff here. The pa...

A preserve with a view

When renowned landscape designer O.C. Simonds conceived plans for the Fort Sheridan army base in north suburban Lake Forest in 1889, he meticulously merged military needs with the land's rolling terra...

A good place to spend an afternoon.

The Fort Sheridan Preserve was a great find. We visited on a windy day so maybe not as many people as usual. Enjoyed wandering on the trails, looking at the rocks on the shore and learning history of ...

local hawk watch at Fort Sheridan Forest Preserve

When conditions are perfect -- wind direction, temperature, barometric pressure, etc. -- there are numerous sightings of a variety of species. ....ospreys, falcons, Cooper's hawks, red tail hawks, Go...