Hupp Skate Park Corner of Illinois Avenue and Orchard Road, Aurora, Illinois ● Directions Wheatlands Park Barrington Drive and Spinnaker Drive, Aurora, Illinois ● Directions The Fox Valley Park District skate parks are environments built for skateboarding, rollerskating and biking. The quarter pipes, handrails, ramps and more provide space for practicing skating tricks and skills.… Read More

Jericho Lake Park ● Barnes Road and Jericho Road, Montgomery, IL ● Directions Disc golf is free, fun – and a great way to enjoy the outdoors. It brings new definition to “a walk in the park.” Try your hand at it some time! The Fox Valley Park District’s Jericho Lake Course is a smartly designed… Read More

Consider the modern classroom and its array of tech-driven resources. Things like smartphone apps, tablets, podcasts and Chromebooks. A tap here, a swipe there, and the teaching and learning continues in earnest. But when Larry Shepard started his first job in West Aurora School District 129, only one tool was required for him to complete… Read More

Bernard Cigrand moved to the Fox Valley in 1913. He was 47 at the time, a prominent dentist who relocated his successful practice to Aurora in 1920. Dr. Cigrand died in 1932, before figuratively returning to the area 70 years later – the Fox Valley Park District’s Blackberry Farm, to be exact – where he… Read More

Now that we’ve settled into more of a traditional, back-to-school routine, check your calendar for some free space and consider joining us this fall for a wide selection of programs and activities tailored to residents of all ages. Pick a favorite and enjoy some family fun! Get started by checking out these upcoming 10 events,… Read More

Believe. With a dash of imagination mixed with some holiday spirit, visitors to the Fox Valley Park District’s Holiday Express instantly re-experience the childhood vibes – hope, anticipation, cheer – that only the season can provide. An annual Yuletide celebration staged at historical Blackberry Farm, Holiday Express delivers Christmas spirit in the form of a… Read More

Rewind two years when the world collectively sought alternatives to binge-watching, Zoom-meeting and TikTok-ing during the lockdown stage of the pandemic. With gyms shuttered and playgrounds cordoned by caution tape, we all wanted – needed – to get out and play, to sample new adventures and realign our recreational activities. One sport, its fuse already… Read More

Around the same time every June, brothers Pete and Daryl Simon spend a little over an hour and a half (give or take) trying to chase down family in the Mid-American Canoe & Kayak Race. It’s been a five-decade pursuit. “We’ve been beaten by brother Dave, brother Rob, and my son Michael,” says Pete Simon,… Read More

Fifty-some years ago it was nothing more than a giant mound of dirt, a lifeless pile of darkness sitting atop a 10-acre patch of oblong land. It existed because of the adjacent hole in the earth, which was as deep as the mound was high. That hole became Waubonsie Lake. The enormous dirt pile? My,… Read More

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