Lincoln Park

Lincoln Park is the largest public park in Chicago, stretching for miles along the Lake Michigan shoreline on the city's North Side. Developed from the mid-nineteenth century on former cemetery land, it now combines beaches, harbours, lagoons and wide lawns. Within its bounds are a free zoo, a conservatory of glasshouses, a nature museum and a rowing lagoon. Statues, gardens and a beach-lined lakefront trail draw runners and cyclists year-round, making it one of the busiest urban parks in the country.