Wilson Park is Granite City's premier 74-acre community park located on Benton Street. Packed with extensive amenities, it features basketball and tennis courts, pickleball, manicured baseball and softball diamonds, football leagues, a skateboard park, several walking paths, the Sieveking Butterfly Garden and fountains, playgrounds, disc golf, reservable picnic pavilions, an ice rink with hockey facilities, and begins the City's route to the Madison County Bike Trail System. The park functions as a massive, tree-dense green oasis deeply integrated within the surrounding residential blocks. It hosts the a multitude of competitive 5K runs as well as the extremely popular Patriots in the Park Fourth of July Celebration each year.