Naperville has many beautiful and scenic parks and forest preserves, including the "Crown Jewel of Naperville" the Riverwalk that attracts lunchtime strollers, families and early morning joggers.
LOCATION: 104 E. Benton Ave. • Naperville, IL 60540
PHONE: 630-848-5000
WEBSITE: www.napervilleparks.org
Features
Features
LOCATION: 2807 S. Washington Street • Naperville, IL 60565
PHONE: 630-848-5000
WEBSITE: www.napervilleparks.org
In 2016, renovations will begin to Frontier Sports Complex. Included in the scope of the work on the west end of the park is the addition of a parking lot with lighting, a new restroom facility and a trail along the roadway.
On the east end of the park, four soccer fields will be renovated with the use of lazer grading. The irrigation system, that is past its life cycle, will be replaced. An asphalt trail will be added from the east parking lot, through the soccer fields and terminating at the central parking lot. This will provide an accessible route through the park and to the sports fields.
Work is expected to start in late spring and finish up at the end of summer 2016.
Features
LOCATION: 3380 Cedar Glade Drive • Naperville, IL 60564
PHONE: 630-848-5000
WEBSITE: www.napervilleparks.org
Features
LOCATION: 724 S. West St. • Naperville, IL 60540
PHONE: 630-848-5000
WEBSITE: www.napervilleparks.org
In the 1930s, McDowell Grove was a camp for the Civilian Conservation Corps - a work-relief program part of President Roosevelt's New Deal legislation - which built bridges, picnic areas, a boathouse, bridle paths and a limestone dam on the West Branch of the DuPage River. During World War II, the site served as a secret installation for developing radar technology.
Today, the 465-acre McDowell Grove Forest Preserve in Naperville is comprised of mature woodlands, open fields with eastern bluebirds and Cooper's hawks, and a floodplain forest with towering butternuts and black maples. It's recently been the site of a dam- modification project, which will return the stretch of river to a healthier, more natural waterway and improve aquatic habitats.
Features
Features
The Nike Sports Complex expansion is now in play! Newly-opened amenities include the district's first lighted, synthetic turf field and multi-use fields for soccer, football and lacrosse. Other features are lighted courts for tennis, basketball and volleyball, as well as a playground and walking and bicycle trails. The Book Family Pavilion, the expansion's park support building, is named to honor the family that once farmed the Naperville Park District land.
"We're excited to deliver this diverse recreational facility to Naperville's residents," says Eric Shutes, Naperville Park District's director of planning. "We thank everyone involved in this project - and especially the community and the site's neighbors - for supporting this expansion and seeing it to successful completion. There truly is something for everyone at the new Nike Sports Complex."
Several thousand people are expected to use the Nike Sports Complex, which nearly doubles the size of the existing sports complex located along Mill Street between Diehl and Bauer Roads. The expanded sports complex also will feature one of two cricket pitches in Naperville, slated to open in 2012.
Features
LOCATION: 288 W. Diehl Rd. • Naperville, IL 60563
PHONE: 630-848-5000
WEBSITE: www.napervilleparks.org
Sportsman's Park, a 27-acre property given to the City of Naperville in the Caroline Martin-Mitchell bequest, is a unique community amenity, including a trapshooting facility that is open two days per week and valuable green space for the public to enjoy just minutes from downtown Naperville.
Under a lease agreement with the City of Naperville, the Naperville Park District maintains and operates Sportsman's Park in collaboration with the Naperville Sportsman's Club. For information about the Naperville Sportsman's Club visit their website at www.napervillesportsmansclub.org In 2011, in cooperation with the City of Naperville, the Naperville Park District enrolled Sportsman's Park in a site remediation plan through the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA). The goal of the remediation was to obtain a No Further Remediation (NFR) letter from the IEPA for the site, allowing seven acres of the park to be open for public use. This area had been closed due to regulations associated with a previous National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit in effect since 1998. Phases I and II of the site remediation plan were completed in 2013 and 2014.
In addition to remediating the site, the Naperville Park District initiated major park improvements at Sportsman's Park. This project was supported by a multi-year grant from the City of Naperville's Special Events and Cultural Amenities (SECA) program.
Sportsman's Park improvements included ADA accessible walkways and shooting stations, energy efficient, low-spill sports lighting, ADA upgrades to the Sportsman's Clubhouse, a new pervious pavement parking lot to filter stormwater on site, an asphalt driveway, approximately one mile of new trails, natural area restoration and landscaping.
Features
The trapshooting range at Sportsman's Park is open to the public and features a clubhouse and three lighted trap fields. Anyone who enjoys the sport of trapshooting is invited to come out and shoot. Year-round shooting hours are Thursdays, 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. and Sundays, noon to 6:00 p.m., with no sign-up taken after 4:00 p.m. The facility is located on West Street, just north of the Community Garden Plots and across from Knoch Park.
Fees for shooting are $10.75 for club members, $12.00 for residents, and $13.25 for nonresidents. The fee includes 25 clay targets and shotgun shells. Additional fees are posted on-site for Doubles and Target Only rounds. Sportsman's Park is a steel-shot-only range. Eye and ear protection is mandatory and shooters must provide their own shotguns and F.O.I.D. card.
LOCATION: 735 S. West St. • Naperville, IL 60540
PHONE: 630-848-5000
WEBSITE: www.napervilleparks.org
Originally slated to be the site of a 200-acre dragon-shaped lake with a swim beach and campground, today, the 1,832-acre Springbrook Prairie Forest Preserve in Naperville is instead one of three regionally significant grassland bird communities in the state and home to species like meadowlarks, dickcissels, grasshopper sparrows, woodcocks, and bobolinks as well as state-endangered northern harriers, short-eared owls, and Henslow's sparrows.
A stream re-meandering project has created twists and turns and a wider, shallower bank along the namesake Spring Brook. These changes have slowed the flow of water, improving aquatic habitat and allowing the brook to more easily pour over its banks and into the preserve during heavy rains, a valuable flood-control feature for nearby residents.
Springbrook Prairie Nature Preserve and Springbrook Marsh Land & Water Reserve, both within Springbrook Prairie, comprise 1,650 of the preserve's 1,832 acres. The site features expansive prairies and meadows and supports numerous rare bird species.
Features
Central Park is located located in the heart of downtown at 104 E. Benton Avenue. It features The Naperville Community Concert Center, a City-owned facility.
While the Concert Center is a year-round home to the Naperville Municipal Band and Young Naperville Singers, it is also available for use by Naperville-based groups.
The Concert Center is designed to accommodate performing arts groups and boasts a large performance stage, acoustic equipment, rehearsal and meeting space and dressing rooms.
Features