The Thomas Woods Campground at Marengo Ridge Conservation Area is open for the season.

The St. Charles Park District invites people to show off their short game skills with a round of mini-golf, pedal up and around the Fox River in a rented boat, or sit back, relax and enjoy a paddlewheel riverboat cruise down the Fox.

The Land Conservancy of McHenry County will host a Spring Wildflower Walk from 1 to 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Spring Hollow Nature Preserve in Bull Valley.

Friends of the Fox River is bringing back a Mother’s Day tradition, Monitor with Your Mother, at 2 p.m. Sunday at Jelke Creek Bird Sanctuary in Sleepy Hollow.

The event features crafts for kids, hay rides, barrel train rides and farm animals, along with antique tractors and trucks.

The professionals from Chicago Kite/Kite Harbor will appear at Prairie Point Community Park in Oswego with their show kites and stunt kites.

Tickets are now on sale for the Maple Park farm's first-ever event, which will happen this spring as the flowers bloom.

The shopping center plans a sensory-friendly, inclusive event Saturday, April 9.

The Stone Mill Museum, owned and operated by the Sandwich Historical Society, will open its doors for the summer on April 3. The museum features four floors of Sandwich history, and welcomes the public from 1 to 4 p.m. Sundays through September.