Today, the park honors its glamorous past with a gazebo, grills, a playground, a picnic shelter, and picnic tables. Ghosts of its glory days, the original roadway and the concrete slab where The Grove Marina once stood still stand as reminders of an era gone by. Besides the Picnic Grove, FRG welcomed the addition of a luxury hotel in 1902. Christened as the Castle Pavilion and Resort Hotel, the establishment boasted windows displayed during Chicago's 1893 Columbian Exposition, the area's first player piano, and an enviable dance floor. During the 1910s, the Castle Pavilion even showed motion pictures, a novelty at the time. In 1905, a group of ethnically-Norwegian men from Chicago established the Norge Ski Club in FRG. Utilizing its three ski jumps (the largest of which is 70 meters tall), the club hosts international competitions during the winter months. For a reasonable fee, spectators are able to watch the ski jumpers in action. The Norge Ski Club is the oldest continuously open ski club in the United States. Remarkably, the ski jumps are able to be used year-round. During the spring and summer, snow is substituted by plastic tarps that are laid along the jumps. In the colder months, snow machines are employed to ensure that the slopes have a continual dusting of snow. The club made history in 2018 when three of its members (Michael Glasder, Kevin Bickner, and Casey Larson) were named to the men's U.S. Olympic ski jump team. While the U.S. ski jump team failed to win a metal during the 2018 Winter Olympics, the three Norge Ski Club members are hailed as regional hometown heroes. Although it no longer stands, Fox-River Grove Inn - Louie's Place was an FRG mainstay for years. Built by Louis Cernocky Sr. at the corner of Northwest Highway and Lincoln Avenue, the establishment became a watering hole for many prominent Chicago residents and several notorious gangsters. Louie's Place also housed the Crystal Ballroom, an eight-sided dance hall built in 1923 where big-bands—including Glenn Miller, Coon-Sanders, Wayne King, Louis Panico, Fred Waring, Frankie Masters, Art Kassel, and Guy Lombardo—entertained patrons. In 1921, Cernocky added a retail section to the building, and in 1922 the plot of land was subdivided and named Cernocky's Subdivision of Block 12. In 1939, a suspicious fire broke out in the ballroom.