One of the superb facilities at the Jack A. Jumps n’ Jiggles Indoor Playground & Carousel Also part of the facility is the Garden Terrace reception hall and a landscaped area outside with a pond and gazebo for events.ħ. This houses the Pavilion Aquatics Center, with an Olympics-size lap pool and a zero-depth entry lagoon pool with a 72-foot water slide.Īlso here is a state-of-the-art fitness center, an art center, dance center and an indoor playground for kids (more below). Surrounded by the village’s municipal buildings, as well as Pirates’ Cove and the historical museum, is an all-encompassing community center managed by the park district. Claes Pavilion Community Center Source: Elk Grove Historical Museum / Facebook Jack A. Olde Salem Cafe also has a stand here, serving hot dogs, grilled bratwurst and apple pancakes. There’s always a wide selection of seasonal fruit and vegetables, microgreens, baked goods, popcorn, sauces, flowers, nuts, farm-raised meats, jams, spices, fresh roasted coffee, even natural pet treats. It’s also nice to know that a cut from the vendors’ fees also goes towards Elk Grove’s pantries. This is a well-attended community event, filled with booths and shoppers throughout the summer. Saturday mornings, June through mid-October, the parking grounds by Elk Grove’s clock tower host a bustling farmers’ market.
Elk Grove Farmers’ Market Source: Matej Kastelic / shutterstock Farmers Market April through October you can rent a rowboat, electric motorboat, canoe or kayak from the Busse Lake Boating Center.ĥ. Much of the southern side of Busse Woods is open water, and the 457-acre Busse Reservoir is one of the largest boating and fishing waters in Cook County. Part of the Cook County Forest Preserve system, Busse Woods encompasses some 3,700 acres, much of which is made up of mature Great Lakes hardwood forest.Ī portion of this is protected as the Busse Woods Nature Preserve, where there’s a 440-acre parcel of flatwoods, an important variety of damp ground forest found on level terrain in the Great Lakes region.Īs a whole the preserve has more than 10 miles of bicycle trails, about three quarters of which is made up by a single loop. One of the great expanses of nature in the Chicago area lies on the north side of Elk Grove.
Busse Woods (Ned Brown Forest Preserve) Source: Malgorzata WI / shutterstock Busse Woods The local park district runs some wonderful facilities, like a water park and children’s theme park in summer, an indoor playground and one of the most enjoyable golf courses in the NW suburbs. Today a herd of elk lives in semi-freedom at an enclosure at Busse Woods, a massive forest preserve that marks the village’s northern boundary. The name of the village comes from the native elk that roamed the grassland and forests when this area was settled by German farmers in the first half of the 19th century. In the Northwest Suburbs, Elk Grove Village is a community of 35,000 along the prosperous Golden Corridor where several Fortune 500 companies are headquartered.
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