In honor of Martin Luther King Day School District #35 invites families and the community to learn more about local service organizations and opportunities to volunteer or contribute. The event […]
Reliable supplies of water are threatened by scarcity, excess, wild fluctuations between these extremes, and pollution. In the Great Lakes region, some communities enjoy ample supplies and others do not, […]
It's been said that the two most engaging powers of a photograph are to make new things familiar and familiar things new. Come see the Green Bay Trail in a new light […]
Landscape designer Deborah Chud returns to take the audience on a photo tour of her highly unusual New Perennialist-inspired garden and describes the design principles underlying it. Many of the […]
Celebrate Earth Day. Join us to clean up Glencoe parks and lakefront. We will meet at various locations. This is a rain or shine event, please dress for the weather. […]
RESCHEDULED due to weather New date is 8:30 - 10AM, Thursday, May 11 Join area expert birder, Tim Joyce, of Wild Birds Unlimited, for a bird walk along the Glencoe […]
Meet Trail Day stewards at the Mary St, entrance to the Green Bay Trail, south of Glencoe’s Harbor Ave. The day’s agenda will be discussed at that time. Work will […]
Chainsaw? If you are looking for an opportunity to use your electric chainsaw, join us to clean up the Trail slope through Winnetka. If you don’t have a chainsaw we […]
The Nachusa Grasslands is a 3,800-acre restored tallgrass prairie near Franklin Grove, about a two-hour drive west of Glencoe. Managed by The Nature Conservancy and volunteers, it is Illinois’s largest […]
Doug Tallamy returns to share his Homegrown National Park Initiative. Tallamy, author of Bringing Nature Home, call for action is to use public and private spaces to support and expand […]
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The Friends of The Green Bay Trail is a volunteer-managed 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.
We restore nature’s beauty to The Green Bay Trail.
