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Buffalo Grove Parks

Buffalo Grove is teeming with recreational activities for residents of all ages and abilities.

It has more than 400 acres of parkland, modern facilities, beautifully landscaped golf courses and a number of popular sports for both youth and adults.

BUFFALO GROVE PARK DISTRICT
Organized on September 16, 1969, the award-winning Buffalo Grove Park District currently maintains 50 park sites totalling 418.22 acres, several facilities, and a wealth of programs and activities for youth, adults and seniors.

With 50 parks dotting the map of the Village, there is always somewhere to go to engage in some leisurely entertainment. Visitors to these parks can find everything from swimming pools, picnic areas, ball diamonds, football and soccer fields and tennis, basketball, and bocce ball courts to fishing, bike paths, lakes/ponds, sand volleyball courts and horseshoe pits.

Serving more than 43,000 people, the park district oversees a number of facilities in the Buffalo Grove community, including:

• Alcott Community Center
• Emmerich Park
• Golf & Sports Center
• Aquadome Indoor Pool
• Willow Stream Pool
• Skate Park
• Spray ‘N Play
• Buffalo Grove Fitness Center
• Disc Golf at Willow Stream Park and Twin Creeks Park
• Raupp Museum

The diverse variety of year-round programming for children through seniors obtained through the Buffalo Grove Park District is matchless, affording patrons such offerings as performing arts, child care programs, summer day camps, an array of athletic programs, senior activities, special interest classes and more.

The Buffalo Grove Park District, along with 15 neighboring park districts, also offers recreation and leisure programs for people with disabilities through Northwest Special Recreation Association (NWSRA). Programs offered are similar in design to the park district, but are created based on the needs of the people with disabilities involved.

Continually acknowledged for its excellence in providing the community only the best in recreational offerings, the Buffalo Grove Park District, for the third time since its inception, has earned recognition as a Distinguished Agency under the Illinois Association of Park Districts and the Illinois Park and Recreation Association Distinguished Agency Program—an acclaimed honor received by less than 10 percent of eligible agencies.

In addition to this choice recognition are a number of additional laurels. The National Recreation and Park Association named the Buffalo Grove Park District the winner of their 2006 Kudos Marketing Award for populations under 100,000. The Director of Recreation and Facilities, Dan Schimmel, won the prestigious Illinois Parks and Recreation Association Professional Recognition Award. Kristy Vik from the Buffalo Grove Golf and Sports Center received the LPGA Teaching & Club Professional of the Year (2007) by Etonic, as well as Golf Range magazine’s Top 50 Golf Professionals in 2007. What’s more, the park district’s golf practice facility won the #1 Golf Dome 2006 Award. All of these prominent accolades show the significance of the Parks and Recreation Department to Buffalo Grove.