This 68-acre property is dominated by floodplain forest, with occasional small prairie openings. Anglers love to fish the Root River from this park. Birds are plentiful. Raptors can be seen soaring through the forest. Woodpeckers can be heard making noise.
Ephemeral ponds provide unique wet habitat.
However, this natural area has severe problems. Buckthorn is invading. Large parts of the prairie areas are falling prey to raspberry thickets and early forest succession. Almost no native shrubs can be found in these extensive tracts. The problem is so bad that restoration may very well require reintroduction of many of the native shrub species.