Quarry Hill Silver Creek Urban Corridor

The Quarry Hill Silver Creek Urban Corridor project consists of enhancing vulnerable native flora and fauna communities on over 300 acres of undeveloped public land. Quarry Hill Park hosts the Quarry Hill Nature Center with over 80,000 visitors per year. This number does not include the many "at-large" park visitors consisting of City of Rochester residents, visitors and school children for passive and active recreation, including fishing in the DNR stocked pond, Monarch butterfly tagging, bat observation, biking and cross-country skiing. These opportunities are less than two miles from downtown Rochester. Silver Creek's banks lead to Silver Lake- which connects to the ongoing restoration on city park land. With the suppression of invasives in the areas described at Quarry Hill and Silver Creek a diversity of native species will return to (or expand within) the area as well as be more apparent as under-story visibility improves.