Park is fine just no parking signs near the park you have to park on Main Street and walk through…read moregrass.

I really like this park. It has over three playgrounds for kids, sprinklers, a BBQ/picnic area, and…read morea pond with baby ducks! There are a couple walking trails. They are not very long but make for a nice little stroll. The park is clean and quiet.

Complete trash now. Wildlife? Poor ducks barley have water. Dirty up there . Not taken care of at…read moreall anymore. Shame . Shopping carts and garbage in the water. Awful.

This gem is about 45-50 minutes outside of the city (depending on traffic and where you're…read morelocated). The stairs are a great workout! I wish more places had something similar! Bring a water bottle! I saw only 1 fountain (old rusty manual hand-pump one) that was about a 10 minute walk on the yellow trail by the stairs. Not even sure if it works! There are a lot of trees (which is surprising since most trails I've been to in the Chicagoland area is pretty sparse)! Watch out for horse poop! Apparently, these trails are shared with bikers, pedestrians, and equestrians!

Can I get a w00t w00t for Forest Preserves?! The Sag Valley Trail System in Palos Park is a great…read moresystem of forest preserves that one can use for hiking, biking, running, horse riding, and of course throwing a stone soul picnic. We decided to grab our mountain bikes for some early spring trail riding. Plenty of people out and about enjoying the trails, and even an equestrian or two. (Watch out for road apples!) The trails are clearly marked but do yourself a favor and print out a color copy of the trail map or you might take a wrong turn at Albuquerque and wind up doing a loop twice. Trails were well-groomed albeit somewhat muddy in spring, there is definitely some degree of difficulty of steep uphill and fast downhill riding, so be prepared to get a workout. There's an old toboggan slide that we decided to carry our bikes up to shorten our ride. This hill makes Rocky's jog up the Philadelphia Institute of Art stairs seem like child's play! And there was a high school wrestling team taking advantage of it for workouts. It's a Vision Quest! I can't wait to do this again in summer when there is full greenery. This is an incredibly peaceful Oak Savannah, with many oaks and the occasional fir, and we had four deer run across the trail 20 yards ahead of us at one point. The Sag Valley Trail System in Palos Park is only a 45-minute drive from the city center, so rack up those bikes and surrey down! You won't regret it!

Boooo for: -Bored…read morecops who like pulling people over for stupid reasons -Expensive subdivisions full of displaced yuppies -SUV's. Everywhere. -The effect of rapid growth and expansion on traffic and quality of life Yay for: -Cute community events, such as farmer's markets and a "Taste of Palos" -Awesome, hikeable areas and forest preserves -Southwest highway, which took me (almost) door to door from home to high school on the south side during my senior year -Not being Orland.

Very peaceful community and beautiful to drive through. The people are nice and very nosy though…read more Especially beautiful in the fall and spring. You get the feeling your not near a busy city when living here.

I've gone to this forest preserve since I started living in Chicago. It used to be fairly quiet,…read morean occasional bike rider here and there, but mostly empty, and the trails had funky color coded trails that we seriously got lost on the first time I went here. I used to be able to allow my dog to walk off leash (she's very well behaved) ...but alas, this is not true anymore. We hadn't been in about a year, and went back to get some fresh air, and it was disappointing. They had an animal control unit present so we couldn't let our dog off leash, which is really the primary reason we would go out there...so she can be independent and have fun exploring. We felt we were being watched like hawks, so its no longer peaceful, but has fallen under big brother's ever watchful gaze. Time to find a new place to walk.

I did the vast majority of my marathon training on this trail system, and my boyfriend and I bike…read morethese trails about once a week. This is a great trail system in the south burbs if you're looking for a paved trail for running or biking. The trail system is well maintained. The scenery is lovely, and the trails are generally pretty empty too which I particularly enjoy when I just want to zone out during a long run.