Lords Park

Lords Park is a popular community park known for its family-friendly environment and variety of recreational activities. - Atmosphere: Welcoming and lively with plenty of green space and shade trees. - Amenities: Includes playgrounds, picnic areas, sports fields (baseball, soccer), walking trails, and a small zoo (Lords Park Zoo). - Accessibility: Easy parking and well-maintained paths, suitable for all ages and mobility levels. - Family Friendly: Excellent for families with kids due to the playground and zoo; also good for sports enthusiasts. - Best Time to Visit: Weekends for community events or weekdays for a quieter experience.

Great place. Love it. Plenty of open areas and picnic areas.

This is an amazing spot with a small farm with animals (bison, deer, sheep, pony, pig, donkey), two playgrounds, a museum, waterpark, picnic tables, trails, pond. We love it here.

Right next to the Elgin public museum ( FYI, it’s not free but cheep and has AC) and little free zoo and water park ( kinda pricy ) but it’s in view so I mention to grown ups of lil to beware, cause we didn’t bring our suits that day, “good times” … lots of space to run and play sprawling grounds. Also a security guard was present on the ground in the parking lot area or have been every time I’ve been which was comforting the time we seemed to be one of the few people there that day as it’s quite a large area and butts right up to area homes. Great park could use better or more clearly marked facilities , restrooms and water fountains. Also on an interesting side note… they had some folks kinda off by the zoo entrance which butts up to the park and courts area who were there “peddling” their faith in the parking lot. I’m not downing or demonizing religions, this world needs something, peoples are hurting and we all desperately needs peace, but not too many religions practice what they preach. So I choose to turn the other cheek, no harm to me, but just speak to let you know. As they were non-confrontational folks we saw didn’t overtly attempt to speak to us ( just two quiet ladies standing by their kart ) but seen them there twice now with a rack of brochures about Jesus I believe. I have my faith ( I’m all good) just thought to share as I’ve not come across this often.

I love this park! The groundskeepers are so kind and I can see why! So quaint and picturesque. I don't think the people who live around the park know how blessed they are. Take the kids to the petting zoo, have a picnic, beautiful landscape to take photos. I visited every day to walk the 2.0+ miles around the park. Look at the photos! Love it 😍