Forest Preserve's Recycle Your Bicycle Program Adds Romeoville Location

ROMEOVILLE, IL — The Forest Preserve District of Will County has added yet another drop-off location for area residents who are looking to recycle their old or unwanted bikes this April.

The preserve's Recycle Your Bicycle program will be held at five visitor centers, from April 11 to April 26.

This year, Isle a la Cache Museum has been added to the list of drop-off locations, the preserve shared.

“We’re excited that Isle a la Cache is joining the Recycle Your Bicycle program for the first time,” Jen Guest, facility supervisor at the museum, said in a news release. “This gives residents of Romeoville, Lockport and surrounding areas, who haven’t had a nearby drop-off location in past years, a convenient way to donate their bicycles and support this important community program.”

Guest said she is hoping the new location will help the Forest Preserve increase the number of bicycles that are collected in the spring effort.

The recycling sites for the program are:

• Hidden Oaks Preserve, Bolingbrook. 8 a.m. to sunset. The bike drop is located on the southwest side of the parking lot.

• Isle a la Cache Museum, Romeoville. 8 a.m. to sunset. The bike drop is located in the far west parking lot near the latrine.
• McKinley Woods – Kerry Sheridan Grove, Channahon. 8 a.m. to sunset. The bike drop is centrally located in the Four Rivers Environmental Education Center parking lot.
• Monee Reservoir, 6 a.m. to sunset. The bike drop is centrally located in the Monee Reservoir Visitor Center parking lot.
• Sugar Creek Preserve, Joliet Township. 8 a.m. to sunset. The bike drop is located at the north end of the far west parking lot.

The preserve collects the bikes for Working Bikes. The Chicago-based organization has been refurbishing and distributing bikes locally and globally to those in need since 1999, according to a news release.

The Forest Preserve's program, which began in 2011, has grown from a once-a-year bike drive at Monee Reservoir to spring and fall events at multiple Forest Preserve locations. More than 3,000 bikes have been collected since the program's start, the preserve said.

“It seems there is a never-ending supply of old bikes,” said Jason Stevenson, facility concessions manager at Monee Reservoir. “But we will take them.”