From Albany go 2 miles south and west on Hwy. 59, then north and west on County Trunk F for 1.8 miles to the parking lot at the north end of the area.
Muralt Bluff Prairie is a 62 acre site that blankets a long, sweeping ridge in an area of older glacial drift. Grasses of this dry-mesic prairie include little blue-stem, side-oats grama, Indian grass, prairie drop-seed, and plains muhly. Spring viewing: outstanding displays of pasque-flower, shooting star, prairie smoke, wood-betony, and bird’s foot violet. Fall viewing: asters, goldenrods, blazing starts, and gentians. Several uncommon species are present – prairie thistle, kitten tails, and one-flowered broomrape. Butterflies, insects, and grassland birds are common. A Bell’s vireo nests here. It is a sandstone bluff, capped with a rocky layer of limestone on which the prairie developed. The long sweeping ridge lies atop an area of older glaciated drift. With its irregular shape, bird populations of cuckoos, house wren, catbird, brown thrasher, idigo bunting, rufous sided towhee, and vesper and field sparrows are common in the prairie. Due to controlled burning and brushing, increasing numbers of bobolink and grasshopper sparrow can be found.