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Places to go - Outdoors
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Nowell Park
5 Mills Road
Joliet, Ill.
(815) 741-7275
Old Plank Road Trail
Hickory Creek Junction to Park Road
(815) 727-8700
Park Forest Aqua Center
Park Forest Recreation and Parks Department
30 N. Orchard Drive
Park Forest, Ill.
(708) 749-9490, (708) 748-2005 (off season)
Park Forest Art Fair
367 Artist Walk
Park Forest, Ill.
(708) 748-3377
Party Pony
(847) 395-5222
Pelican Harbor Aquatic Park
Bolingbrook Park District
200 S. Lindsey Lane
Bolingbrook, Ill.
(630) 739-1700, (630) 739-0272
Plum Creek Nature Center
Goodenow Grove Forest Preserve
27064 Dutton Road
Beecher, Ill.
(815) 727-8700
PowerSource Martial Arts
3309 Vollmer Road
Flossmoor, Ill.
(708) 960-4913
Reed’s Canoe Trips
907 N. Indiana Ave.
Kankakee, Ill.
(815) 932-2663
