NORTH PARK — Is there anything more tempting than a pile of leaves?
These pyramids of fallen foliage, arduously raked and mounded, all but beg to be demolished in a frenzy of reckless, gleeful abandon.
In this cursed age of leaf blowers, the pile has become something of an endangered species. But not at the North Park Village Nature Center, 5801 N. Pulaski Road, where staff builds the leaves up just so kids can knock them down. Then builds them up again.
According to a Park District staff member, the Big Leaf Pile has become a tradition at the Nature Center, a 46-acre preserve where leaves fall fast and furious from trees that are more than a century old.
Nothing says the pile is exclusively for youngsters. In case you've forgotten how much fun it can be to roll around in a mountain of leaves, we've provided this handy reminder.
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