LITH Trustee Wants Three Oaks Perks
Lake in the Hills Trustee Bob Huckins is suggesting residents be allowed to use Three Oaks for free in exchange for Crystal Lake residents getting to use Woods Creek Lake at a reduced price.
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Lake in the Hills Trustee Bob Huckins is doing the spadework for a new era of cooperation between the village and the city of Crystal Lake.
Huckins is asking the Crystal Lake City Council if Lake in the Hills residents could be admitted free to Three Oaks Recreation Area, an old 500-acre gravel pit. Crystal Lake residents get free admission to the area.
Under his proposal, Lake in the Hills residents also would be able to rent boats, kayaks and other watercraft at reduced rates.
It return, Crystal Lake residents would have access to the 56-acre Woods Creek Lake for $2. The nonresident fee is $5.
“I’d sure like to go fishing there,” Huckins said of the prospect of fishing at Three Oaks for free.
Crystal Lake City Councilman Jeff Thorsen and City Manager Gary Mayerhofer had no comment. Mayerhofer added he was waiting to see the proposal in writing.
Three Oaks Recreation Area is the result of decades of gravel mining on the property south of Northwest Highway. Mining operations exposed an aquifer, creating a vast lake. The city turned the property into a recreational park about a year ago.
The lake at Three Oaks is stocked with bluegill, bass, muskellunge, northern pike and walleye.
Woods Creek Lake is a 56-acre lake created by a dam on Crystal Creek. It also is stocked with game fish. Paddleboats and kayaks are available for rent.
Leavemymoney Alone
11:46 am on Thursday, September 8, 2011
So CL residents will pay a $2 fee to use the lake in LITH, and LITH residents will get to use the CL lake for free. He must be another victim of the political mental virus. LITH residents please vote this guy out of office.
Julie
1:36 pm on Thursday, September 8, 2011
Let me see. Our beautiful new beach would be packed with both CL and LITH residents and the trade off we would have the choice to use their lake for $2. No thank you!
JPR
2:16 pm on Thursday, September 8, 2011
This guy is nuts. It should be the other way around.
Gina
2:39 pm on Thursday, September 8, 2011
Why would CL residents have to pay for the use of LITH Woods Creek Lake? If that happens, then we will have Cary asking for free or reduced admission and Fox River Grove asking for free or reduced admission because they shop in Crystal Lake or something to that nature. I think it's only fair to leave it free for CL residents only. This will as well cut down on the "over crowding" at the peak times of the seasons as well as giving residents an advantage of renting any of the facilites and as well the rentals of any of the water crafts during the season. Just my opinion:)
Scott M
10:57 pm on Thursday, September 8, 2011
What is Woods' Creek Lake? It does not exist on the first page of Google.
Drew Fattori
7:48 am on Friday, September 9, 2011
Are you kidding me? This Huckins guy is wacked.
Jimmy D
9:23 am on Friday, September 9, 2011
ummm...No thanks. A fair trade means giving the same value in return.
Heather A
12:52 pm on Friday, September 9, 2011
this is a joke - right? just because we're neighbors doesn't mean we have to share. And thanks for the great "discount" on using your lake.
KCisko
9:46 am on Saturday, September 10, 2011
OK People, wake up....It is not "Free" to us CL residents - WE PAY TAXES which pay for the use of the rec area. LITH residents do NOT pay CL taxes so why in the hell should us CL residents pay for LITH residents to use our recreational area?? I certainly hope that CL politicians will not force their constituants to pay the taxes to afford other city residents the benefits.
KCisko
9:48 am on Saturday, September 10, 2011
....another question....why would CL residents want to go to Woods Creek Lake when we have our own rec area?? I have never even heard of WCL.
Tim Kane
9:29 am on Sunday, September 11, 2011
Woods Creek Lake is a nice place to go ice
fishing.
Indigo
3:21 pm on Tuesday, September 13, 2011
We live in Cary and I'm just grateful that we are allowed to use the nearby facility for a fee! Why on earth would CL residents agree to a "deal" like this? That's absurd. If he wants to fish there for free, move to CL, otherwise pay up like the rest of us. It's a lovely place and well worth the very reasonable non-resident rates. And while I'm on my soapbox.... C'mon Village of Cary, can we please step up and get something even close to this nice? jeez, just a dog park would be fantastic! I love my neighborhood, but I'm sure tired of having to go to other towns for recreational activities.