Park Shelter Reservations
Oswegoland Park District residents may reserve a park shelter for family parties, reunions, or community group picnics. The shelters listed below will provide your group an area to gather and share a meal while enjoying the great outdoors!
Waa Kee Sha Park on Reservation Road, Oswego
- 22 wooded acres with nature trail, playground, horseshoe pit, and fire pit
- Shelter: 40’x 60’ with grills & picnic tables
- Limited parking space – 20 cars
- Handicap accessible port-o-let
Violet Patch Park, along the Fox River Trail, 1 ½ miles south of Boulder Hill Pass
- Waubonsie Trail provides an easy walk to the Eagle Ridge Disc Golf & the Civic Center
- Canoe launch
- Foot bridge to cross the Fox River
- Shelter 1: 16’x 28’ with 3 picnic tables & grill
- Shelter 2: 16’x 20’ with 2 picnic tables & grill
- Parking for 23 cars
- Handicap accessible port-o-let
Jaycee Park, Saugatuck Road, near Douglas Road, Montgomery
- Waubonsie Trail runs through the park
- Playground and athletic field with a backstop
- Shelter: 16’x 28’ with 3 picnic tables & 2 grills
- Parking for 25 cars
Prairie Point Community Park, 4120 Plainfield Rd, east of the Prairie Point Center Building
The shelter at Prairie Point Community Park can be reserved by Park District residents for a 4-hour period of time: Saturdays and Sundays, 11:30am–3:30pm or 4:30pm-8:30pm, or weekdays as available. There is a $50 fee to reserve the Prairie Point Shelter. Download a Prairie Point Park Shelter Reservation form, or call 630.554.1010 for information and availability.
- Benches and picnic tables
- Drinking fountain
- Lighted large group picnic shelter with restrooms
- Open area for sports practice
- Open picnic area with grills
- Parking Lots
- Prairie Point Trailhead bicycle/pedestrian trail
- Bench sitting areas
- Skate park
- Sledding hill
- Small shelter with picnic table
- Splash Pad water fun with restrooms
- 124 parking spaces
- 2 full court basketball courts
- 2 sand volleyball courts
- 4 baseball/softball lighted game fields
Hudson Crossing Park, 65 N. Harrison Street, downtown Oswego on the Fox River
The shelter at Hudson Crossing Park can be reserved by Park District residents for a 4-hour period of time: Saturdays and Sundays, 11:00am-3:00pm or 4:00pm -8:00pm, or weekdays as available. There is a $50 fee to reserve the Hudson Crossing Shelter. Download a Hudson Crossing Park Shelter Reservation form, or call 630.554.1010 for information and availability.
- Playground (handicap accessible) with 6 slides, 5 climbers, swings, seesaw, "Cool
Mister", spinners, and tot playhouse
- Benches and picnic tables
- Sandbox with backhoe digger and frog sculpture
- Two lighted picnic shelters with grills
- Open picnic area with grills
- Drinking fountain
- Fishing areas
- Concert/festival area
- Sitting areas
- Lighted paver walkways throughout park
- Fox River Trail bicycle/pedestrian bridge over the Waubonsie Creek
- Egret sculpture garden
- Interpretive signage
- Canoe access
- Parking lots
- Fox River Trail trailhead
Community Park at Grande Park, Intersection of Grande Park Blvd & Ridge Road, Plainfield
- This 100 person shelter is under construction. Reservations will be taken beginning October 1, 2013.
To check availability please call the Park District at 630.554.1010, or email rentals@oswegolandpd.org. To reserve a shelter please complete and return a Park Request Form to Prairie Point Center, 313 E. Washington St., Oswego, IL 60543.