Destination Parks

Destination Parks Destination Parks

Dive into Reading Van Laten Park, 183rd & Holland Drive, is your destination for combining fitness, reading, and your imagination. StoryWalk provides pages of a book, spaced along a walking path - walk the whole path to finish the book. Done reading? Enjoy a whimisical, themed playground!

The Lan-Oak Park District is proud to own and maintain nineteen parks, throughout Lansing, providing residents an option for recreating outside. Smaller parks found in neighborhoods are sure to offer playgrounds, a little open space, and, depending on park size, another common play or athletic opportunity. Some larger parks, however, offer something special - an amenity not found in any other Lansing park. These parks are your community destination for some very specific fun!

Tennis

Rotary Park, located at 193rd & Sherman, Photo courtesy of Melanie Jongsma is your destination for tennis. The tennis courts Paws ‘n Play Dog Park at Rotary Park Bock Park at 175th & Chicago, is the are the park destination that your best friend dreams about! district’s newly Paws ‘n Play dog park is a one-acre space, renovated courts, just waiting for game, set, match! fully fenced, separated into small dog and large dog areas, boasting benches for resting, and a two level water fountain. Paws ‘n Play is waiting Pickleball Copper for you to run, play, visit, and socialize. Dog park memberships are available at the Eisenhower Center, 2550 178th Street, Lansing. Mugger’s Park, Questions? 708-474-8552 located at 177th & Bernadine, is your Fishing & destination for Pickleball. SleddingPickleball is a game Erfert Park, 188th & Burnham, combining ping pong a beautiful park serving as a and tennis played destination for two activities. outside with paddles and a ball similar to a whiffleball. The pickleball courts are Visitors can enjoy fishing year-round very popular - try Pickleball! Pickleball equipment in the Erfert pond and enjoy is available for check out. sledding in the winter on the Questions? 708-474-8552 Erfert sled hill.

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Outdoor Music Winterhoff Park, 180th & Roy, offers Symphony. Are you in tune? Try your hand at some giant outdoor music with the concerto equipment added to the very popular Winterhoff playground.

Bocce

Potts Park, 172nd West of Oakwood Ave., houses the park district’s only and brand new bocce courts. The courts are made with concrete borders and limestone, with benches for relaxation.

Horseshoes &

Cornhole

Lan-Oak Park,180th & Arcadia, offers a dedicated, fenced area containing four horseshoe pits and two sets of concrete cornhole (also known as bags), along with benches. Bring your own bags or check some out at the Eisenhower Center.

A Community Playground Lan-Oak Park 180th & Arcadia, is home to our community playground. What does that mean?

It means that it is the biggest, the highest, the most exciting of all Lansing playgrounds. The Lan-Oak playground also offers the only fenced, dedicated tot lot playground customized for ages 2 to 5 years. Little ones will love this safe, fun, just-our-size playground. Dozens of surrounding, mature trees make visiting the community playground a very special event for kids and parents.

Interactive Play

Oakley Park,

184th & Oakley Ave. offers Lansing’s first smart phone interactive playground. The program, named

Biba, requires a free download from Google Play or the App store. Follow the instructions, explore the playground with technology, and have a more modern type of fun!

Go For A Ride

Pennsy Greenway

The park district is proud to offer a bikepath winding through Lansing, extending from the Illinois/Indiana state line to the southern village limit of Calumet City. The Pennsy Greenway is part of the 475-mile Grand

Illinois Trail. When proposed, the park district outlined many wonderful reasons for adding a bike path to the Lansing park system: **Maximize non-motorized access for all residents to the Pennsy Greenway and the expanding regional trail network in the Chicago Southland and Northwest Indiana **Improve the safety of streets within the Lansing community for all users **Provide a convenient network that accommodates the range of bicycle use in the Lansing community – for recreation, exercise, and transportation **Encourage bicycling as a choice for active living and an inexpensive, non-polluting, and convenient option for local trips. Go for a ride!