The 208-acre Cricket Creek offers fishing, picnic sites, and the Forest Preserve District’s only model-boating lake. It features nearly 2 miles of crushed limestone trails and serves as an important link in the 30-mile Salt Creek Greenway Trail.
Cricket Creek contains the county’s first wetland mitigation bank, a restoration site funded by developers to replace previously destroyed wetlands. The habitat attracts native wildlife, including a variety of bird species, such as great blue herons and ducks, and various amphibians.
