Harms Woods is one forest preserve in a chain of forest preserves. You can bike or walk to the Botanical Gardens from here. It can get crowded on sunny days. The non concrete paths are usually less frequented. You can catch sight of deer and other wildlife.

Beautiful place to go for a walk or bike riding, just love it

Great fun, relaxing, scenic and romantic, but also family place. Great for couples, working out, relax, and so many more.

Peaceful, well-maintained, natural scape. Excellent for walking, running, biking, with open spaces for kids to run around. Also, excellent fields for soccer!

Awesome trail. It’s been the best thing to reconnect to nature and get some time away from stress. Good trail and gives you a good 20+ miles of bike riding, walking trail. Kid friendly except there are some fast riders so you should practice bike riding with children before getting on the trail.

I usually dont walk I the woods. But walking in Harms Woods was a wonderful experience. I can appreciate the beauty.

A great escape from the city. Plenty of biking and hiking trails. On my recent trip I enjoy a walk along a path through the woods. While it is wide and nicely paved, it was nice to get away from the roadside path and feel more immersed in nature.

Great place for a walk or bike ride. I take photos there whenever I ride

Beautiful place to walk and bike in, our beautiful forest preserves.

A great respite from the stressors of the world. Unfortunately most people we passed on the path were NOT wearing masks + social distancing is limited while on the path.

Nice place for family hike

Large park with great running and cycling trails.

I love the bike trails that go through the forest preserve

Nice place close to Wilmette, Skokie and Glenview to walk or bike.

A really good biking path, but not so much of a hiking path though.

Big open space, plenty of parking, a walking, running, biking trail, picnic tables and you can find the river if you want. Very pleasant place to spend a day.

Calm relaxing place to come with family and friends!! I always go through these woods on my weekly bike ride to the botanical gardens up north!!

I went there for a birthday party and the place was great. There were many dogs and people running around the forest. We also found a rock which I really liked. I hope someone claims it!

Beautyfull place to enjoy nature time..

Great wildlife escape in the middle of the city.

Great for a relaxed bike ride with family. If you are looking for speed, this is not for you. Lots of traffic, kids, pets.Nicely paved paths with plenty of distractions.

Nice bicycle and walking trail. Bathroom facilities and not crazy busy.

I usually take my 2.5yo on a gravel path there to get a little break from the city, really nice/relaxing place.

Beautiful nature preserve with lots of room. Lovely trees, plants, grass, and streams. Never too crowded.

Great place to go and cool your jets

Nice bike trail go all the way to Botanic garden and downtown Chicago

Beautiful and peaceful despite being close to the highway. Wish the trails were better maintained but the bike trail is perfect.

Good place for family.

Amazingly pretty preserve, running trail (gravel) is great.

Very nice trails.

Great place to take a long hike, bike, or walk your dog along the trails, many neat areas to settle down and/or play around in. Nice views, good family park.

Great place for running and biking

This is the best forest preserve in the area with a large variety of trails and scenery. Great for orienteering, hiking, running, picnics. Facilities are well maintained.

Awesome place to bike and hike

This place is beautiful.

Great place for family Hangout

This is a great suburban resource! I live going for a walk here when were in the area.

Very fun. Lost my shoes in some mud but that was my bad

Walking and bike paths, fields, forest, picnic areas. A great way to stay in touch with nature.

Nice place

Its a beautiful setting to hike and picnic with good access. I wish people would pick up all their garbage though.

Nice place to start bike riding. Has bathroom and water fountain.

Great trails to walk pups

Made for a wonderful road trip pit stop with four kids! Plenty of space for them to run about.

Loved peace and quiet

Got lovely fall colors, great photos.

Nice little spot of wooden area.. beautiful in fall

Great Forrest area, easy trails, and a good site for restored oak Savannah habitats

Delightful and peaceful throughout ... anytime of the year.

Loocks nice

Quiet; beautiful; convenient.

Not harmful at all

Great bike trail! Great for riders who want to go the distance.

My favorite place to take my pup for a nice, quiet walk. Fantastic paved bike trail as well!

Great place to go for a walk. Best part... its free. Lots of bikers too.

Always good place to walk the dog or just enjoy the afternoon

Nice place for dogs and to get your steps in

A well maintained area, clean and the scenery is amazing. Gone biking here and it was hella fun.

Small parking spaces for such a big preserve. Although you can park at the close malls if you are willing to take a walk.

Nice place for grilling

Harms Woods is a nice place to host a get together, get a workout, or just enjoy nature and get some good oxygen from all the trees. Most get togethers are on the weekends and its usually familys enjoying each others company or its people playing sports games on the large field. I personally use the woods to bike ride or rollerblade. Great place to ride trails and get a bunch of fresh oxygen into your body. Awesome place, I love it.

Great park for gatherings and nature. I was there for a middle school cross country meet. The trails are great for both running and biking and they are part of a much larger system (something like 50 miles out trails). Nice retreat close to the city

Great place for a picnic birthday or many other situation

Watched deers foraging

Great place to explore, exercise and hold family picnics and events.

This is a very nice park with a variety of types of trails to explore.

Beautiful scenery, with bike and jogging paths

Good hiking trails, a bit muddy but fun. Wish there was a better place to cross Golf road

For family picnic is great place.

I go here often because I enjoy the variety. You can walk, jog or bicycle along the river. It is often heavily used including horseback Riders. It is truly a treasure that Cook County has so many forest preserves that are well-maintained. People vote with their feet by showing how much they enjoy being able to be outdoors.

Nice place

Great place for entire family and big summer gathering

Nice, quiet back to nature type of place.

The paved bike trail is great for bikers.

Is great to be with nature and relax

Hackneys good food, onion rings

On that day we were in downtown Chicago city....its beautiful city...millenium park...music band..hall....artistic ss bean..where we have taken so many pics....digitalised vdo ...mixing fountain....and so many things.....

A great place for a walk or bike in the woods.

Beautiful trails for walks and jogs.

Lots of fun

I love the walk and seeing the change of the seasons.Cat neck approved

Was here for a softball game in August and apparently they (local PD) kick people out when it starts to get dark. Understandable, I suppose. Also, if you’re playing as part of a league you need a permit. Not sure how much those cost, but my company’s soft ball league somehow managed to play here without one for the last 12 years without one until our last game. That was also one of the reasons noted when my group of ~40 was asked to leave. Nice little nook in the suburbs overall though.

Great place for bbqs

You know what would be nice water, drinking water, water fountains. 16 mile trail I seen 1 well and 1 drinking fountain. 1 was at the beginning and 1 well pump of hot water was at 15 near nothing.

Relaxing.

Big boi Forrest

Nice walking trail

Some of the trails were a little too nice. I like actual woods. I frequently also ended up in peoples backyards. Regardless, its a decent place for a little walk.

Beautiful, clean, easily accessible

I love running the trails from here. The parking lot is open and convenient and the new washroom is clean. There are FP bikes to rent as well.

Beautiful Forest Preserve

Great bike path.

Definitely bring rain boots if youre trying to go off of the path. Good for bikes

With the north branch trail running through it, its a great spot to relax and hang out or get on the trail. It also has a reservable picnic grove that holds up to 300 people. Plenty of parking and public bathrooms are available. Its also down the street from the mall so food and drink options are close. They also have bike tracks to lock up your bike.

My favorite place for a bike ride

Great walking and biking trails

Awesome place for picnic

You can hide a whole lot of dead bodies over here

Forest preserve. Interesting if you like forests surrounded by nieghborhoods and freeways.

The best part is the bike path - fantastic bike path. Woods are cool, and some big open fields here as well. Not a ton of hiking paths - the bike path is nominally shared, but theres enough bike traffic to make it not ideal for walking. Some beautiful scenery if you go off into the woods a little bit (although my son and I learned the hard way today - there is at least one log filled with yellow jackets).