The 2005 Capital Improvement Program Acquisition Plan included a partnership with local governments to preserve the abandoned Chicago Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad in eastern Will County for conversion to a multi-use trail, the Vincennes Trail.

The Vincennes Trail is proposed to stretch from the Old Plank Road Trail to the Momence Wetlands on the Kankakee River in Kankakee County for a potential future trail of 25 miles. The first 0.5-mile segment just south of Goodenow Grove Nature Preserve has been donated to the District by the Crete Rural Park District. Active planning efforts with local units of government are underway to complete the first segment from Goodenow Grove Nature Preserve to the Village of Beecher.

Photograph Courtesy of Lorenzo Pesce