Moraine Hills State Park! McHenry, IL 🐢

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Quest Rating: 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 

Featured Guest:
Kelly (Best friend, summer wife, sous chef! lol)


Animals Spotted:
Birds, turtles, and a turkey! 🦃


Weather:
Higher 70s/80s. 
 

Environment:
Sunny and beautiful!
Open landscape, a lake, forests, and a "lagoon" lol. 


Food:
Went to a restaurant in town after along the Fox River! So fun, we ate outside! 


Fun Facts:
The park's name comes from a geological formation called a moraine (ridge of debris left behind by a glacier).

The 48-acre Lake Defiance in the center of the park is a kettle lake, formed when a large chunk of glacial ice melted!

The waters and wetlands of Moraine Hills are home to abundant wildlife; more than 200 species of birds have been identified at the park! 🐦


Leatherleaf Bog! "The lagoon" lol. 🐢🐸 


Lake Defiance! 🌞⛅

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