Editing Lake in the Hills, Illinois (section)

==Recreation==
Even though Huntley Park District serves the village's western parts, Lake in the Hills maintains its own 34 parks and recreation department within village limits and provides immense programs and diverse types of parks and recreational areas.  Significant recreational areas include:

*Sunset Park, one of the village's largest parks located on Miller Road on the western side of the village.  The park features several baseball and softball fields, soccer fields, playground equipment, picnic shelters, tennis courts, a basketball court, a gazebo, a splash pad and a skate park.  This is also the site of one of the village's famous summer activities, the [http://www.summersunsetfest.com Summer Sunset Fest] held over Labor Day weekend.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070928190717/http://www.lith.org/Community/DogPark.shtml Bark Park], located just west of Sunset, is one of the area's only dog parks and serves registered users in the village as a place for their dogs to run and interact with each other.
*Leroy Guy Park, located in the Bellchase neighborhood on the village's southwest side on Lakewood Road, features several ballfields, playground equipment, tennis and basketball courts, and a picnic shelter.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20050410093227/http://dnr.state.il.us/INPC/Directory/Sitefiles/Area2/exnmarmc.htm Exner Marsh] is a recreational area operated by the McHenry County Conservation District on the village's western side which has a decent trail system, public washrooms, tallgrass prairies, lakes and swampland, and significant stands of trees.  It features one of the state of [[Illinois]]' few groups of Blanding's turtles.
*[http://www.boulderridge.com/ Boulder Ridge Golf Course and Country Club] is a private golf course located in the village's most expensive neighborhood in the central part of town.
*Richard Taylor Park & Skate Park, located behind the Lake in the Hills police department has soccer fields and a fenced-in skate park.
*[http://www.lith.org/parksrec/page/fen-nature-preserve The Lake in the Hills Fen] is a {{convert|260|acre|km2|adj=on}} natural prairie and recreational area on the village's northeast side of town off Pyott Road.  It features immense tallgrass prairie and hundreds of species of wildlife, many of them considered to be rare or endangered.
*Woods Creek Lake is the village's lake located in the eastern part of town.  It includes several beaches, boat launches, and adjacent recreational areas.  The village's oldest homes, several of them cottages, are grouped around this lake. There are 5 properties maintained by the village along the lake and that is: Turtle Island Park, Labahn Hain House/Nockels park, Echo Hill Park, Indian Trail Beach, and Butch Hagele Beach. 
*Lynn Dillow Is part of the sub-division Spring Lake Farms and is the home to 2 jungle gyms, a gazebo, basketball court, and a bike obstacle course.
*Ken Carpenter Park is located at the corner of Randall Rd and Miller Rd. The park was updated in summer of 2018 and features a basketball court, beach volleyball, and trail that leads into the surrounding neighborhood. 
*Ryder Park - Home of 3 baseball fields formally used by the LITHYAA. The playground was updated in summer of 2018. 
*Barbara Key Park is off Pyott Rd behind the Cunat Apartments. There is a playground, beach volleyball court, basketball court, and a trail that leads into the conservation district.