From DeSoto, go 2.5 miles north on State Hwy.
Access is off the town road at the base of the bluff.
Go east 0.2 mile and walk north into the prairie. Battle Bluff Prairie, the site of one of the Black Hawk War battles, contains a dry prairie with a diverse flora. The diverse prairie flora is interspersed with limestone boulders, sandstone outcrops, and a few stunted trees. More than 80 species of native prairie plants have been identified. On the top and at the bottom the prairie gives way to forest dominated by oaks, birch, and basswood.