Recreation
Tinley Park teems with activities. However you like to spend your leisure time, chances are that Tinley Park’s award-winning park district will have a program or facility to meet any recreational need. Throughout the year, the Park District offers more than 400 programs, classes, special events and trips. It also has 39 parks featuring a wide range of facilities including tennis courts, baseball diamonds, picnic areas, football, soccer fields, playgrounds, and even miniature golf. For more vigorous activity, the park district also oversees the Tinley Park Fitness Center, complete with an indoor track, basketball, volleyball and racquetball courts, a lap pool and aerobics classes, a personal trainer and opportunities for kids' birthday parties.
The state-of-the-art Tony Bettenhausen Recreation Center at 171st St. and 80th Ave., encompasses 70,000 square feet that includes several basketball and volleyball courts, jogging and walking paths, rooms for arts and crafts and teen and senior activities, plus a preschool playground. It also is home to the Bettenhausen Auto Racing Museum, which provides information and exhibits memorabilia on auto racing. The museum pays tribute to the Bettenhausen family, long-time Tinley Park residents, well-known in the racing world.
The 60-acre Community Park is on the same site and has nearly any outdoor amenity residents could want: baseball diamonds, soccer fields, a walking/ bicycle path, lighted tennis courts, basketball and sand volleyball courts and a $4.4 million water park, complete with a zero depth pool and lazy river inner tube stream.
Golf enthusiasts can find challenging and entertaining courses and lush greens at any of the 20 golf courses in the immediate area. Among them are Tinley Park’s own Graystone Golf Links and Odyssey Country Club, as well as nationally recognized courses such as Cog Hill and Olympia Fields, where PGA tournaments are held every year.
For the young and the young at heart, Odyssey Fun World features miniature golf, an amusement park, batting cages, go-karts, videogames and dozens of other activities that are out-of-this-world fun. The Village also has two bowling centers that will be right up the alley of any bowler.
There is no excuse to be bored in Tinley Park. There is something to do at any time of the day, at every time of the year.
Want to know more about the Park District’s program and facilities? Check out photos, directions, hours, rates and more at www.tinleyparkdistrict.org
Area Golf Courses
Big Run Golf Course
1721 W. 135th
Lockport
815-838-1057
Cherry Hills Court Club
Flossmoor Rd.
Flossmoor
708-799-5600
Chicago Heights Country Club
1100 Scott Ave.
Chicago Heights
708-755-2422
Cog Hill Country Club
(Home of Motorola Western Open)
12294 Archer Ave.
Lemont
708-257-5872
Cook County Forest Preserve Nat'l
16310 Central Ave.
Oak Forest
708-429-6886
George W. Dunne National Golf Course & Driving Range
16310 S. Central Ave.
Oak Forest
708-429-6886
Graystone Golf Links
7600 W. 191st St.
Tinley Park
708-720-6600
Hickory Creek Golf Course
& Driving Range
7861 W. St. Francis Rd.
Frankfort
815-469-1717
Green Garden Country Club
Manhatten/Monee Rd.
Frankfort
815-469-3350
Hickory Hills Country Club
8201 W. 95th
Hickory Hills
708-598-5900
Idlewild Country Club
Dixie Hwy. & Flossmoor Rd.
Flossmoor
708-798-7098
Oak Hills Country Club
13200 76th Ave.
Palos Heights
708-448-5544
Odyssey Golf Course Club
(Curtis Strange Designed Course)
19110 Ridgeland Ave.
Tinley Park
708-429-7400
Old Oak Country Club
143rd & Parker Rd.
Orland Park
708-301-3344
Palos Country Club
131st & SW Hwy.
Palos Park
708-448-6063
Silver Lake Country Club
147th & 82nd
Orland Park
708-349-6940
Urban Hills Country Club
Richton & Steunkel
Richton Park
708-747-0306
Westgate Country Club
13100 Ridgeland Ave.
Palos Heights
708-385-1810
White Mountain Executive Course
9901 179th
Tinley Park
708-479-8100
Willow Run Country Club
187th & Maple Rd.
Mokena
708-485-2119
Woodbine Golf Course
14240 W 151st
Lockport
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