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500 acres of gardens, golf, camping & picnic grounds, plus 2 museums, eateries & a bandshell.
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This is an amazing place to get out and enjoy nature and learn a lot. They have a military museum and tanks. Such beautiful grounds. Admission is paid by the car. During week is the best time to go its only 5.00 and a little more expensive on weekends. Definitely worth the visit, the cafe has amazing food as well. I really enjoyed the beautiful grounds and landscaping. Extremely peaceful.
An absolutely amazing place to relax and recharge new energy.
A huge park with a touch of a great past.If you have a dog only Monday is good day.
The museum is free, and that’s rare in the world.
Moreover beautiful and will teach you a lot.
I’m in of the person who invented, founded and realized this place.
I was more fortunate, that I was occompanied by four women.
Thank you and good luck.
A huge park with a touch of a great past.If you have a dog only Monday is good day.
The museum is free, and that’s rare in the world.
Moreover beautiful and will teach you a lot.
I’m in of the person who invented, founded and realized this place.
I was more fortunate, that I was occompanied by four women.
Thank you and good luck.
Beautiful place to take the family for fall pictures, just a stroll, or take advantage of the free museum. Family and I enjoyed a Sunday afternoon here. Surprisingly the place was not crowded. Admission during our visit was $15, per vehicle. Prices vary depending on the season and are available online. Inexpensive considering it also included access to the museum, which is a must if you visit.
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Very beautiful, clean, nicely arranged, well kept park for all ages. I can’t believe I haven’t heard of it before. I asked a bunch of people from FB neighborhood for good places to spend time with kids and this place was 1st on recommendation list.
It is indeed a great park. It costs $ for entrance but so worth it. We went there on Wednesday 8/16/23 which is a weekday & paid $5/car at the entrance, but they have different fee for weekends and holidays. However, regardless the fee, I’d go there again and again.
The park has nice playground structure for toddlers near a huge parking lot, also down the path there is a walk in bathroom with multiple stalls. Soda vending machine around the corner and a tank on the parking lot.
The park itself has main entrance across from handy-kept parking area but you can also walk the side paths of each direction with a stroller or a wagon. (Left path) will take you around beautiful floral gardens, museum mansions and to the nice green meadow with a pond of water lilies & cute fish that swim close to the edge to look at you. It was fun to feed them bread.
Further on, the park has numerous floral arrangement secluded corners with certain incline path for wheeled items like stroller or wheelchair. A great big field with inflated jump castles for kids, and other interactions at a certain AM hour of the day, because they remove them closer to 5pm.
Further on there is a nice fountain, with benches to rest & take cool photos. Beautiful gardens and exquisite flowers with names. A little deeper towards the indoor museum of WWII military equipment and heavy weaponry there’s a big bunch of WWII tanks from several different countries. And by bunch I mean it allot, at least 10-15 of them stationed outside and kids can climb & touch them. Very cool. My 4 y/o toddler did not skip a single tank his dad placed him on. So he had a blast. Between the tanks and a pond… he wanted to feed the fish again before we left.
On FB photos I saw different colorful structures for kids which I didn’t notice at the park, but I’m guessing they are installed seasonally. So it’s cool to come back in a while to catch something new. For this reason I highly recommend this place to anyone. Just use a sunscreen at AM visiting hours on a hot summer day.
Very beautiful, clean, nicely arranged, well kept park for all ages. I can’t believe I haven’t heard of it before. I asked a bunch of people from FB neighborhood for good places to spend time with kids and this place was 1st on recommendation list.
It is indeed a great park. It costs $ for entrance but so worth it. We went there on Wednesday 8/16/23 which is a weekday & paid $5/car at the entrance, but they have different fee for weekends and holidays. However, regardless the fee, I’d go there again and again.
The park has nice playground structure for toddlers near a huge parking lot, also down the path there is a walk in bathroom with multiple stalls. Soda vending machine around the corner and a tank on the parking lot.
The park itself has main entrance across from handy-kept parking area but you can also walk the side paths of each direction with a stroller or a wagon. (Left path) will take you around beautiful floral gardens, museum mansions and to the nice green meadow with a pond of water lilies & cute fish that swim close to the edge to look at you. It was fun to feed them bread.
Further on, the park has numerous floral arrangement secluded corners with certain incline path for wheeled items like stroller or wheelchair. A great big field with inflated jump castles for kids, and other interactions at a certain AM hour of the day, because they remove them closer to 5pm.
Further on there is a nice fountain, with benches to rest & take cool photos. Beautiful gardens and exquisite flowers with names. A little deeper towards the indoor museum of WWII military equipment and heavy weaponry there’s a big bunch of WWII tanks from several different countries. And by bunch I mean it allot, at least 10-15 of them stationed outside and kids can climb & touch them. Very cool. My 4 y/o toddler did not skip a single tank his dad placed him on. So he had a blast. Between the tanks and a pond… he wanted to feed the fish again before we left.
On FB photos I saw different colorful structures for kids which I didn’t notice at the park, but I’m guessing they are installed seasonally. So it’s cool to come back in a while to catch something new. For this reason I highly recommend this place to anyone. Just use a sunscreen at AM visiting hours on a hot summer day.
I have been here a few times and the grounds are amazing. All the tanks, the home that you can tour, where celebrities like John Wayne visited, and the gardens are amazing. However this time I came to see a orchestra perform a concert on the grounds in the bandshell. What a
great experience! If you haven't been here check it out and stay for the Saturday night musical entertainment.
great experience! If you haven't been here check it out and stay for the Saturday night musical entertainment.
Nicely done park surrounding the museum. The brick walkways were exceptionally done and very well kept. There are several flower gardens an be plenty of places to sit and enjoy the surroundings. There is plenty of parking and admission for us that day was $5 per car.
This estate is immaculately maintained and has dozens of beautifully groomed walking paths. There are things to do for all ages. The retired army tanks are definitely a popular part that are appreciated by children because they can climb on them. The flowers and plants are meticulously taken care of. The entire property is some jewel of Illinois. I would recommend Cantigny Park to family and friends of all ages!
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