🛷 Sled Hills
The following hills are located in neighborhood parks and close at dusk.
- Arrowhead Park, 711 Iroquois Avenue
- Brook Crossings, 1015 95th Street
- Country Lakes Park, 1835 North Aurora Road
- Gartner Park, 524 W Gartner Road
- May Watts Park, 804 S. Whispering Hills Drive
- Wolf's Crossing Community Park, 3252 Wolf's Crossing Road
Riverwalk Sled Hill at Rotary Hill
There is great sledding right on the Naperville Riverwalk. The hill provides fun for the entire family. Sledders should bring their own inner tubes or plastic sleds. Wooden sleds and metal-runner sleds are not permitted. The hill closes at 9:00 p.m. except on Fridays and Saturdays, when it remains open until 10:00 p.m.
Sledding Rules and Regulations
Sled hills will open when the soil is frozen and there are two or more inches of snow with no visible grass. Please note that sledders assume full risk and responsibility for determining that all conditions are safe for sledding. Parent/ adults are responsible for supervising their children 8 years of age and younger.
The newly constructed sled hill at Wolf’s Crossing Community Park remains closed for 2020-21 to protect the turf until it grows in.
🏂 Snowboarding
Weigand Riverfront Park, 2436 S. Washington Street
The hill at Weigand Riverfront Park may be used only as a snowboarding hill. Snowboards are restricted on all other Park District hills. Sledding is not allowed at Weigand Riverfront Park. Please note that snowboarders assume full risk and responsibility for determining that all conditions are safe for snowboarding. The snowboarding hill at Weigand Riverfront Park closes at dusk. Parent/adults are responsible for supervising children 8 years of age and younger.
❄️Snowtubing
- Mount Hoy at Blackwell Forest Preserve in Warrenville.
When there’s plenty of packed snow on the hill (usually more than 3 inches), thrill-seekers can snow tube down the 800-foot run on Mount Hoy at Blackwell Forest Preserve in Warrenville. Only District inner tubes are allowed.
If conditions allow, the hill is open Saturdays and Sundays Dec. 5 – Feb. 28; daily over winter break Dec. 21 – Jan. 1 (closed Dec. 25); Friday, Jan. 15 (Teacher Workday); Monday, Jan. 18 (Martin Luther King Jr. Day); Monday, Feb. 15 (President’s Day); and Friday Feb. 26 (Teacher Institute Day).
Inner tube rentals are at the base of the hill and are $10 per tube per day. The hill is open 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.; rentals end at 3:30 p.m.
https://www.napervilleparks.org/infographics/winter-outdoor-activities-winter-2020
❄️Snowshoes
Visitors can also explore Blackwell and Fullersburg Woods forest preserves by snowshoes. When there’s plenty of snow on the trails, snowshoe rentals are available at the Blackwell tubing hill (when open) 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Snowshoes can be rented at the Fullersburg Woods office in Oak Brook Monday – Saturday 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. (rentals end at 2 p.m.). Call 630-850-8110 for availability.
To keep everyone safe during the pandemic, the following safety provisions will be followed:
● Participants must wear a mask covering their nose and mouth when interacting with Forest Preserve District staff or other visitors.
● Participants must practice social distancing and stay at least 6 feet away from non-family members.
● Only 50 inner tubes will be allowed on the tubing hill at a time
● Visitors should stay home if they are sick or have been around someone who is sick.
● Tubes and snowshoes will be sanitized between use.
● Only credit card or cash (exact change only) will be accepted for rentals.
⛷️ Cross-County Skiing
- Knoch Knolls Park on trails, or in other parks that have trails that are not plowed
- Blackwell in Warrenville
- Fullersburg Woods in Oak Brook
- Danada and Herrick Lake in Wheaton
- Greene Valley and Springbrook Prairie in Naperville
- Mallard Lake in Hanover Park,
- Meacham Grove in Bloomingdale
- Waterfall Glen in Darien
- West DuPage Woods in West Chicago
For fans of cross-country skiing, rangers groom more than 70 miles of trails at forest preserves. Visitors who aren’t classic skiers should use the inside of the trails to avoid damaging the set tracks.
⛷️ Downhill Skiing
- Four Lakes in Lisle. Naperville residents can register here.
⛸️ Ice Rinks
Season is Dec. 15-Feb. 15 (weather-permitting)
Skating areas typically open on or after December 15; however, they can open only after a period of extreme cold. Weather and conditions permitting, the skating season continues through February 15.
To Check the Status of Skating Areas
Call the Rainout Line number at 630-883-4242
Visit www.napervilleparks.org/cancellations or go to our website and click on the Weather Cancellations tab
The following ice rinks are lighted and open until 10:00 p.m.
- Centennial Park, 500 W. Jackson Avenue
- Nike Sports Complex, 288 W. Diehl
- Wolf's Crossing Community Park, 3252 Wolf's Crossing Road
The following ice rinks are not lighted and close at dusk
- Meadow Glens 1303 Muirhead Avenue
- Gartner Park 524 W. Gartner Road
Ice Rink Reminders
- The ice rinks are natural rinks that are dependent on weather conditions for ice quality.
- The rinks are designed for recreational skating only and are not maintained at professional or competitive skating standards.
- A minimum of 72 hours of constant temperatures of 15° or below is necessary before the ice-making process may begin.
- Ice skating season is December 15-February 15, weather permitting.
Ice fishing, ice skating and sledding are allowed at most forest preserves, although never at Spring Creek Reservoir in Bloomingdale. Additionally, sledding is not allowed at Mount Hoy at Blackwell or at the closed landfill sites at Greene Valley and Mallard Lake.
The Forest Preserve District does not monitor ice conditions, so visitors go on ice at their own risk. As a guideline not a guarantee, there should be at least 4 inches of clear ice for any activity for one person; 8 inches of clear ice for a group. Anglers can find complete regulations in the fishing guide.
Finally, when there’s adequate snow conditions, mushers can dog sled on the Thunderbird Spur Trail at Greene Valley and on the West Branch Regional Trail, Bobolink and connector trails north of Mack Road at the McKee Marsh area of Blackwell. https://www.dupageforest.org/news/news-releases/winter-fun-2020
