Come and enjoy the world's first floating eco-park! Located along the North Branch Canal of the Chicago River, the Wild Mile can be enjoyed by foot or boat.

Come enjoy the world's first floating eco-park! Located along the North Branch Canal of the Chicago River, the Wild Mile can be enjoyed by foot or boat.

The park consists of floating gardens with public walkways and kayak docks in the Chicago River. The Wild Mile functions as a public park, open-air museum, ... Wild Mile · Volunteer · Our Team · Events

The Wild Mile seeks to rejuvenate a 1 mile stretch of the Chicago River into a wildlife sanctuary, immersive nature experience, and living laboratory.

The Wild Mile will create a new environment for habitat, education, and recreation on the Chicago River. Designed as a 17-acre floating eco-park, it advances a ...

Most urban waterways have been engineered very similarly to the Chicago River, so the Wild Mile's design is applicable to cities woldwide.

The experimental groups success in launching the creation of arguably the world's "first floating eco-park" (The Wild Mile) in their river remediation efforts ...

The Wild Mile is the first floating eco-park of its kind and scale in the world. Composed of floating docks winding through lush gardens of native wetland ...

23 авг. 2022 г. · The Wild Mile will create a new environment for habitat, education, and recreation on the Chicago River. Designed as a 17-acre floating eco-park ...

2 авг. 2024 г. · Known as The Wild Mile, the interconnected islands were installed by grassroots environmental restoration organization Urban Rivers in 2017.