Benefits of Membership

The Illinois Prairie Path
a not-for-profit corporation

• You will receive the quarterly illustrated Newsletter that features articles on Path development, events, nature study, history, and other information of interest to trail users.
• You will receive one deluxe color Illinois Prairie Path trail map.
• You will help establish policy by electing members to the board of directors and acting on corporate business at the annual meeting of members held on the first Sunday in November of each year.
• Your tax-ddeductible contribution will be used to plant trees and flowers, maintain and establish prairie remnants, pay a scavenger to place and empty trash barrels and a comfort station along the trail, install benches and mile markers, install display cases which contain maps and other trail information, coordinate an annual Earth Day cleanup, landscape the Path at street intersections, and work with municipalities, counties, forest preserve districts, park districts, and the State of Illinois to improve the Path and add to the system of interconnecting trails of which the Path is part.

For a membership application, click here.