The Volo Bog – Illinois
Summer or winter – the Volo Bog is a place for discovery. Located in Northeast Illinois, the bog sports a half mile walk on a boardwalk (similar to a pier) and an approximately three-mile trail with views of the tamarck forests.
After the end of the last Ice Age, a chuck of retreating glacial ice lodged itself deep in the ground at what is now Volo Bog. Several thousand years later the remnant lake began to fill with salt and vegetation, creating the wetlands present today. The Volo Bog is technically known as a quaking bog because vegetation floats atop the open water….that is in the spring, summer and fall. The boardwalks you see here, take you directly over the frozen wetlands which are very near where you are stepping.
For more information, visit https://openlands.org/2018/06/05/have-you-discovered-volo-bog/
Best of the Midwest! Hiking - nature - photography 