River Bend Nature Center Parking

When Horlick Dam is removed, additional features (presently buried in the millpond) may be accessed from River Bend Nature Center, 3600 N.Green Bay Road. Signage indicates "PUBLIC WELCOME ... TRAILS OPEN DAILY DAWN TO DUSK".

Some maps show their driveway as Ivan Road (though I don't believe any signage carries that name). As you drive in, look for a sign for "Visitor and Bus Parking", and park as near its entrance/exit as possible. From there, carry out and downslope, stepping around a gate, to River Trail. Follow that trail southwest until you come to the river. https://riverbendracine.org/wp-content/uploads/maps/Trail-map.pdf

NOTE#1: River Bend Drive (immediately across from the entrance to Batten International Airport) does not get you to the nature center!

NOTE#2: Looking at maps (or from shore in River Bend), you may see Charles A. Armstrong Park (on the west side of the river), and think access would be better from there, since that road brings you much closer to the river than parking at River Bend. However, Armstrong Park has a gated entrance, and is a private park (exclusively for S.C.Johnson employees and their famiies). Virtually all land abutting the river-right bank upstream of the dam are privately owned until Johnson Park Drive (Johnson Park Golf Course, a City of Racine park).