Winter/Spring Registration is Open!

The Winter/Spring 2025 Program Guide is available online and registration for programs is open. 

You can find the guide in English HERE

Y en Español  AQUI

When looking through the Digital Guide, if you want more information or registration details about a program, simply click on the link for that program.

Santa's Mailbox

Submit your letter to Santa through our Santa's Mailbox!

You can print out and use our letter template found on our website, pick up a letter template at the Community Center during regular Guest Services hours, or use your own stationary to write Santa. Bring your letter for Santa to the Community Center or Sports Center after Thanksgiving and by December 14. No postage is required - Santa picks the letters up himself - but we need a return address so the big man can write you back!

A mailbox will be set up in the foyer of the Robert W. Rolek Community Center at 814 Hart Rd., Round Lake, and at the Sports Center, 2004 Municipal Way, Round Lake Beach, and will be accessible during regular hours.

In addition, the Village of Round Lake Beach also will have a Santa's Mailbox outside the Cultural and Civic Center, 2007 N. Civic Center Way, Round Lake Beach. This mailbox will be available beginning Nov. 29 at the village's Tree-Lighting.

Puppy Grinchmas

Let your pooch get in the holiday spirit, too! Stop by the pavilion outside the Rolek Community Center, 814 Hart Road, Round Lake, and get a photo of your dog and/or family with the Grinch! There will be a festive backdrop for your picture and we will provide extra “Max” reindeer antlers for your pet. FREE, and no registration required. All children must be accompanied by an adult.

Date: Wednesday, Dec. 11
Time: 4:30-6 pm
FREE!

Holiday Band Concert

The Round Lake Area Community Concert Band will perform a Holiday Concert at 7:30 pm Thursday, Dec. 12. The FREE concert will be at the Round Lake Beach Cultural and Civic Center, 2007 N Civic Center Way, Round Lake Beach.

Holiday in the Hart

Join us for some holiday fun inside and outside the Rolek Community Center, 814 Hart Road. At this FREE event, enjoy hot cocoa, holiday music, sleigh rides, winter-themed crafts and activities. Meet Buddy the Elf and watch a juggler perform. As a thank-you to our wonderful community, we will give out ornaments commemorating the Park District's 50th anniversary (while supplies last).
No registration required. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

*You can also show your generous holiday spirit by bringing some nonperishable goods to the event to donate to the Avon Township Food Pantry.

Photos in the Park Contest

Do you love to take photos? Show us your best shot! Amateur photographers are welcome to enter our Photo Contest. Photos must have been taken at one of our parks and/or during a Parks program. Deadline to enter is Jan. 31, 2025.

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