Moraine Hills State Park hike

Today we hiked 6+ miles in 2 1/2 hours at Moraine Hills State Park, since many of our other hiking venues are under water or muddy. The over-abundant rain on top of the snow melt have rivers and lakes well above flood levels, as seen here on the Fox River. The trees in the river are on an island which is not currently an island, and houses across the river from the state park had water lapping at their walls. One looked as though you could drive a boat into the garage, and numerous docks and piers downriver were under water.



At McHenry Dam, Dave, Ellen, and Patti are in front of the dam which has water at the same level on each side of the dam wall. The lock doors and the spillway are all full-open to allow maximum water flow out of the Chain-of-Lakes system.