Vernon Hills Athletic Complex

Nice BIG facility for all athletes on this 85 degree day in Illinois!
Plenty of parking, clean and neat and well maintained.

The VHAC is what you always dreamed of as a kid while playing in the neighborhood parks. This complex of extremely well outfitted fields have everything you could ask for from covered dugouts to lights for night games, high-tech lightning detection systems, restrooms, a covered pavilion and more. This was a fantastic design and implantation by VH Park District. The only problem with such great facilities is the desire to keep them so often overshadows letting them actually be used; during the rainy season lots of games get cancelled, not due to rain, but simply due to fields being wet and wanting to protect the fields. I understand it, we all love these fields. This place is one of those amenities that makes Vernon Hills such a great community. I can’t imagine what we did before it was built.

Wonderful cut of prairie land that unfortunately gets driven past like it's a desert. (We're the tumbleweed.) I assume the Vernon Hills School district utilizes this area for their extracurricular activities but if you live in the planted neighborhood nearby, this is a great spot to walk in and get some fresh air.

There's also plenty of parking and security.

Overall the grass fields we were on for our lacrosse tournament were well maintained, parking clearing marked, trash was well kept and so were the porto potties. I would have preferred near to field F instead of portable ones but they did a great job maintaining them. I can’t speak for the rest of the facility.