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Glacial Park Conservation Area Glacial Park is McHenry County Conservation District’s 3,000-acre crown jewel near the town of Richmond, Illinois. |
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| Take Rte. 31 north to McHenry. Turn left on Harts Rd. and travel 0.6 miles to the park entrance. Parking is available at Weidrich Education Center (north of the entrance or follow the park road around the curve to the parking area east of the marsh). Other parking is available on Keystone Rd., just east of the intersection of Barnard Mill Rd. |  |
The park is a situated among Glacial moraines, hills left by the Wisconsonian glacier about 12,000 years ago. But the glacier's retreat also created a not-frequently-seen formation. Along the western edge of the park is a Glacial Kame, a cone-shaped hill of gravel formed as the glacier melted. A kame is formed at an intersection of ice crevices as water, carrying gravel from on top of the glacier drains through the crevice.
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