Best places: Things to dos in Des Plaines, United States

👍👍 Great walking trail year round, and awesome playground for toddler ages and beyond!

👍👍 Great park! Fun for a variety of ages. Has open space to run, basketball court, zipline, jungle gyms, instruments and swings for most abilities.

👍👍 Nice, quiet place. You can go to fish there, walk or just sit and relax.

Open space featuring a walking/cycling trail through scenic woodlands. Pet friendly.

👍 This is a nice green space with plenty of flowers for the pollinators. I cut a star because the gazebo seems to be used shadily in the evening hours.

👍 good place to take so photos filled with bugs also mosquitoes but it was worth it.

👍👍 It's a great lake I have been going there for the past 20 years. Unfortunately these past 2 years I see more and more people dumping trash around. I take my kids there and we always enjoy it. Most of the times we bring extra trash bags and clean as much as we can. I think they should ban people drin...

👍👍 PHOTOS - You can take photos of exhibits and the Kinder House. You can also actually touch some exhibits. TIP - Request a private tour of the Kinder House PRICE - Free LOCATION - Near downtown Des Plaines PARKING - Free parking on the street DURATION - 2 hours EXHIBITS - Right when you enter yo...

👍 love this park, but please change the basketball net rims to single instead of double, nobody likes the double.

👍👍 This is not a gim, it is a park. Not big, but well-maintained park with the usual children's playground with slide and swings.

Forest & prairie refuge offering a range of native trees, trails & wildlife viewing, plus parking.

😠 So I work here every summer for a week for a day camp and it is so run down and old, it can make for a long week with little kids if it's wet out there at all. Don't think any camp should even be allowed to be held there.

😠 Big bend lake more like big TRASHbag lake, im all for less governing and freedom but cmon if this polluting isnt gonna lessen id rather have a cop patrolling and handing 200 dollar tickets to anyone that throws garbage in nature and thr lake. The fish are all weak from all the plastics and synthetic...