Mill Creek Park is one of the Grayslake Park District’s must full featured playgrounds (As you can see from the picture at the bottom, Isaac gets a little overwhelmed there.) There is one large structure as shown below on the left. The side of the structure with the large red twisty slide is well suited for intermediate climbers and is relatively safe without too many places to walk off. The piece on the left with the straight slide, after the gazebo, is very difficult to access unless you are an advanced climber so the play structure offers fun and challenges for all climbers.
The pictures on the right above are of the smaller play structure adjacent to the larger one. The small structure is good for youngsters who have just started moving. If they can crawl or get up stairs, then they can have fun. If nothing else, parents can help the tykes on the small structure and let them go down the slide. Isaac really enjoyed this area when he was 1 because he do almost all of it on his own and it has a steering wheel on it, which he always likes.
Another nice feature of this park is the picnic pavilion. This is located very near the play area so you could have a large outing here and still be close enough to supervise young children. The picture on the left below shows the pavilion, the picture in the middle shows Isaac trying, unsuccessfully to climb up the harder side of the play structure, and the picture on the right is Isaac making his way to the twisty slide.
The park also has swings (I think two baby and two regular) and is adjacent to several soccer fields.
The park is easy to get either by car or by bike. Continue Reading…
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Antler Park is located in Hainseville, IL and is part of the Grayslake Park District. This park is small, but has some nice features. The one thing this park offers that others don’t is a tire swing. The tire is horizontal to the ground and is suspended from three chains so it rotates and swings. IK is still too small to ride it, but I had fun on it. The park has two main play structure, one big and one small. As many parks have, the big structure is almost impossible for a small child to climb on to which is nice for safety purposes. The park also has full size swings and baby swings. Here is a picture of the smaller play structure and the child swings.
You will probably not stumble on to Antler Park unless you are really off the beaten bath. It is in a subdivision off of Rt. 120 or off of Hainesville Road. You can access it from the city bike paths along Washington Road, but there is not good way to get out along Rt. 120 or Hainesville.
So, if you are up for a little bit of a ride and would like a nice simple park, this is a fine place to visit. You can bring your young kids and older toddlers here and both will be amused. I would think much over five and you would want to find a slightly more challenging and exciting park.
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Isaac has now been alive 13 months and I wanted to recap his adventures this month.
The summer began which meant we were starting our time with our pool passes. Isaac loves the water and he runs around in it and even when he falls in over his head you just pick him up real fast and then he is ready to go again after spitting the water out.
We also recently discovered the Grayslake Park District Splash Park, and Isaac loves this place too. It is just an adventure land with water toys he can run around in. He has been “bumping into” girls there also and saying, “Hi.” He is a gonna be a heart breaker I fear. (I love the one on the left!)
Much like the pool and the park. Isaac loves bath and is still quite exciting to get to splash around. I think really it is just that he likes violence and destruction much like Continue Reading…
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