Many wonderful prairie plants grow here, including leadplant, purple prairie clover, grama grass and pasque flowers. As you hike through this site, look for the quarry remnants, old stone foundations and cellars, and clumps of lilac and iris, bearing testimony to the early settlers who tried to farm this sandy, rocky piece of land. Oak savanna follows the ridge between the upper and lower fields. Old growth forest can be found at the north end, in the ravine.

Numerous springs on the adjacent National Park Service land are also of interest.