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Windsor Rd. r D e g d i R a r y M 14 17 Miles N Park District Taxing Boundary 0 0.25 0.5 0.75 1 | URBANA PARK DISTRICT | urbanaparks.org/register | 217-367-1544 Park MTD Bus Route Accessible Equipment Play Archery Diamonds Ball Basketball Field Cricket Boating (Seasonal) Disc Golf Park Dog Fishing Flower Beds Plots Garden Herb Garden Historic Marker Horseshoes (Seasonal)Porta Potties Fields Open Path/Trails Tables Picnic Playground (Apr-Oct) Restrooms Sculpture Grills Hill Sledding Soccer Field Swimming Pool CourtsTennis Volleyball Feature Water Leased) & (Owned Acreage 1 AMBUCS Orange 22 2 Blair Red/Green/Bronze 11 3 Busey Woods Gold/Ruby 59 4 Canaday Green/Grey 5 Green/Grey/Bronze/ 5 Carle Gold 11 6 Chief Shemauger Gold 13 7 Crestview Red/Green 6 8 Crystal Lake Gold/Orange 144 Perkins Road Park Site/ 9 Judge Webber Gold 84 10 King Grey/Illini 8 11 Larson (Wheatfield) Red 5 12 Leal Orange/Grey 3 13 Lohmann Red/Green 15 14 Meadowbrook Bronze 130 15 Patterson Parklett Gold/Silver <1 16 Prairie Green 20 17 South Ridge Red 11 18 Sunnycrest Tot Lot Red/Green 1 19 Victory Red 5 20 Weaver (In Development) Green/Grey 60 Accessible Grills With Shelters Facility MTD Bus Route ADA Accessible Diamonds Ball Boating (Seasonal) Basketball Birthday Parties Fitness Flower Beds Shops Nature Offices Fields Open Paths/Trials Tables Picnic Playground Rooms Rentable Sculptures Soccer Fields Swimming Pool 21 Anita Purves Nature Center Gold/Ruby 22 Brookens Gym/Fields Green/Grey 23 CLP Family Aquatic Center Gold/Ruby 24 Lake House Orange/Gold 25 Phillips Recreation Center Gold/Silver Urbana Indoor Aquatic 26 Center Green/Grey/Bronze 27 Greek Revival Cottage Orange/Grey 28 Planning and Operations Gold Friendship Grove Nature 29 Playscape Gold/Ruby | Anita Purves Nature Center 1505 North Broadway, Urbana Gold/Ruby (Weekdays) | Ruby (Weekends) Questions: 217-384-4062 The Anita Purves Nature Center, located at the north end of Crystal Lake Park, is an environmental education facility open free to the Hours public. Next door you’ll find Busey Woods, a 59-acre forest preserve Monday-Friday 8am-5pm, Saturday 9am-4pm with a boardwalk loop, seasonal ponds and more. We’re on the MTD Closed for Holidays Gold/Ruby line (weekdays) and the Ruby line (weekends). September 2, November 11, 28 & 29, December 25 To learn more, visit www.urbanaparks.org Closed for Cleaning Follow us on Social Media! August 18-23 “Anita Purves Nature Center” @ap _ naturecenter @UPDNature What’s Inside the Anita Purves Nature Center? Audubon Nature Shop: Open Mon-Sat 9am-4pm This shop has a great selection of nature-related gifts such as bird Exhibits & Wildlife Viewing feeders, binoculars, books for all ages, party favors and puppets. Discover Illinois natural history both inside and outside the nature Operated by the Champaign County Audubon Society, this nonprofit center. Indoors explore the Field Station through hands-on displays shop donates all proceeds to local environmental education or that include discovery drawers and seasonal exhibits. Explore the conservation projects. Audubon members get a 10% discount on interactive “frog calls” and “bird calls” drawers, wear “wonderful purchases. Visa, MasterCard, Discover, American Express, cash and wings” and pretend to be an owl or other flying animal, and discover checks accepted. animal X-rays on the light table. Watch wildlife in the center’s new habitat garden, feeding station and circulating pond, or relax with a Educator Resource Room: Open Mon-Sat 9am-4pm favorite nature book in the Observation Room. The habitat garden is Find ideas for lessons, programs or activities. Look for help to identify Photo Credit: 2019 2nd Place Winner of General Category - “Going, Going, Gondola” by Tricia Scott a National Wildlife Federation certified wildlife habitat. a bird, flower, or tree. The Resource Room contains reference guides, curriculum materials and videos. All items may be borrowed with a Multipurpose Rooms deposit. A wide variety of Educational Loan Boxes are available for a Rentals Available: small fee. See page 63 for additional loan information. Call 217- June-August: Weekdays 7-11pm | Weekends 8am-11pm 384-4062 for availability, or just stop by and have a look. September-May: 8am-11pm Multipurpose rooms are ideal for parties, meetings or group retreats and feature views of the prairie and close proximity to Busey Woods. PROGRAMS BY REQUEST Available rooms seat 25-75 and include counter space and sinks. Your group can come to us or we can come to you! During a TV with a VCR/DVD player. LCD projector and PC laptop are Special Tour or School Tour, a naturalist will lead a program available for an additional fee. Wi-Fi is available as well. Make your at the nature center or a park district natural area. Or, invite a reservations least two weeks in advance. Call 217-384-4062 or go Traveling Naturalist or Naturalist in the Classroom to visit to www.urbanaparks.org/rentals/rent-a-facility/ to download a your group for a one-time, weekly or monthly program. Custom rental request form. programs are available, including programs for scout badges. Make your request at least two weeks in advance. Call 217- What’s Outside the Anita Purves Nature Center? 384-4062 or go to www.urbanaparks.org/programs/nature- Exhibits & Wildlife Viewing programs/request-a-nature-center-program/. Outdoors, the Busey Woods Gateway Trail is a link between park and woods. Explore the wildlife habitat garden on your way for a NATURE DISCOVERY PACKS Busey Woods hike. The 0.3-mile boardwalk trail includes interpretive Borrow a Nature Discovery Pack and take it with you when you information about Busey Woods’ seasonal ponds, habitats and explore local parks and natural areas. These packs include natural resource care. See page 61 for information about Busey magnifiers, binoculars, field guides and more to help you identify Woods and other district natural areas. The Urbana Park District has what you encounter. Specific packs about astronomy, birds, created the Friendship Grove Nature Playscape at the Anita Purves ponds, Busey Woods and Meadowbrook Prairie are available. Nature Center for our kids! It is a hands-on, kid-directed outdoor Borrow one for free with a refundable deposit of $15. Call 217- play space. For more about this new attraction visit page 19. 384-4062 to reserve. | Brookens Gymnasium 1776 East Washington, Urbana Green/Grey Questions: 217-255-8601 B rookens Gym is in pod 400 of the Champaign County Administration (Brookens) Building. The gym is well-lit and has a reconditioned floor. Locker rooms are available to program participants. Locks are not provided. Ample parking can be found directly adjacent to the building accessible from the Lierman Avenue entrance off Art Bartell Road. Urbana Park District Rainout Line 217-367-9575 www.urbanaparks.org/events/rain-outs-and- cancellations/ For information about program cancellations, including weather cancellations, and for updates about special events or other key happenings at the Urbana Park District, visit www.urbanaparks.org. For evening sports programs, this line will be updated after 4:30pm on weekdays and one hour before the scheduled program or sports on the weekend. All other updates will be made as conditions change. Planning a birthday party? Reserve your Brookens Gym party at least two weeks in advance by Athletic Field Rentals: completing an application and making a full payment. (There is a Soccer, Baseball, Softball two-hour minimum on parties). Call 217-255-8601 for information. Download a field request form at: See “Birthday Parties” on page 65. www.urbanaparks.org/rentals/rent-a-park/ Minimum $30/3hr (base price with bases/goals) $10/hr additional Rent Brookens Gym WEEKDAYS $100 - Prepped field (includes dragging and lining) (8am-3pm*) for ONLY $20/hour $40/hr – lights (only on softball/baseball) *Call 217-255-8601 to check availability Sports Officials Urbana Park District youth and adult sports programs provide an excellent training ground for individuals interested in officiating sports.

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