Unleash your inner explorer!

Download the Prairie State Hike App and Discover Illinois

We tell our best stories on the lands on which we work everyday. Go on a nature walk near you and try this new way of learning and enjoying nature around us! Download the app to your phone from the links on this page and gain access to dozens of tours available statewide.

This GPS driven app informs users about points of interest on trails that are in our app system. The Hike App itself can be purchased and downloaded for just 99¢ and is compatible on both Google Play and Apple platforms.

Current hikes on the PSCC Hike App include:

*Visitors use the app at one of the stops along Grand Prairie Friends’s Warbler Ridge trails in Central Illinois*

Northeast Illinois

Starved Rock: St. Louis Canyon
Starved Rock: Wildcat Canyon/Illinois River
Starved Rock: LaSalle/Tonti/Hennepin Canyon
Starved Rock Lodge
Starved Rock Council Overhang/Ottawa Canyon
Illinois Beach State Park: North Unit
Illinois Beach State Park: South Unit
Middlefork Farm Nature Preserve – Lake Forest Open Lands
Openlands Lakeshore Preserve
Hennen Conservation Area – Land Conservancy of McHenry County
Glacial Park McHenry County – McHenry Conservation District
A Paddle Down Nippersink Creek – McHenry County Conservation District
Prairieview Education Center – McHenry County Conservation District
Dayton Bluffs Preserve – The Conservation Foundation
Canoe the Fox River – The Conservation Foundation
Dickson-Murst Farm – The Conservation Foundation
McDonald Farm – The Conservation Foundation

Northwest Illinois

Emiquon Preserve -The Nature Conservancy
Nygren Wetland – Dianne Nora Nature Trail – Natural Land Institute

Central East Illinois

Weldon Springs State Park
Warbler Ridge Conservation Area – Grand Prairie Friends
Clinton Lake State Recreation Area
Sangamon River Corridor Reserve – Land Conservation Foundation

Central West Illinois

Adams Wildlife Sanctuary
The Nipper Wildlife Sanctuary – Friends of the Sangamon Valley

Southern Illinois

Giant City State Park Nature Trails
Pere Marquette State Park
Giant City: Trillium Trail/Stone Fort Trail

The Hike App is also available to land owners, forest preserve districts, park districts, and any other land agency to create tours for your special open space place. Access to create tours for your land agency using the Prairie State Hike App is free to PSCC members with an annual renewal fee. Email PSCC for more information!