Bookwalter Woods: mobile home park in Gardner, Illinois
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A 168-space mobile home park in Gardner, IL. It sits in FEMA flood zone AE, a special flood hazard area — worth factoring into insurance and financing. The nearest everyday shopping is a few miles out.
- Size
- 168 spaces · 3th largest of 5 in Grundy County (median 168)
- Size vs the state
- Larger than about 91% of Illinois's registered parks
- Flood zone
- AE — special flood hazard area; flood insurance generally required
- Water
- Own public system (well) · EPA IL0635125
- Nearest
- Grocery 4.9 mi · pharmacy 13 mi · clinic 9.8 mi
- Internet
- 100% of homes at 100/20 Mbps · fiber 0% · gigabit 0%
- Neighborhood
- Median rent $1,041/mo · median income $81,000 · 15% mobile homes
Distances are straight-line, so the drive is longer. Internet and neighborhood figures describe the surrounding town, not this park’s own lots. Rent limits are not legal advice.
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Worth knowing
This park runs its own regulated public water system (EPA id IL0635125), drawing from its own groundwater well. The system reports serving about 504 residents through 167 service connections.
Gardner is a rural community about 25 miles southwest of Joliet (about 150,000 people). 3 other registered parks lie within about 10 miles.
For residents
- Water billing: Illinois bars charging residents again for common-area water the utility already bills separately, and where common-area use isn’t separately metered, caps what residents can be billed at 80% of the total utility bill (765 ILCS 745/6.2). Check the math free with the water submeter calculator.
- Paying rent: ask the park office how they take payment. Parks that run on Lot Sidekick hand residents clear, itemized rent and water bills.
Common questions
How many spaces does Bookwalter Woods have?
Bookwalter Woods has 168 total spaces per the Illinois park registry (as of July 23, 2026).
Is this Bookwalter Woods's official website or phone number?
No. This is Bookwalter Woods's page in the Lot Sidekick park directory, built from the state registry. We're independent of the park and can't take messages for it. The park office hasn't added a public contact here yet; if you own the park, claiming the page (free) lets you add one.
Where is Bookwalter Woods?
#23 Sistek, Gardner, Illinois 60424, in Grundy County.
How much is lot rent at Bookwalter Woods?
Bookwalter Woods doesn't publish its lot rent anywhere we could find, and we won't guess at a figure. Call the park office to ask. If you run this park, you can add your real lot rent to this page for free.
How much can lot rent go up at Bookwalter Woods?
Illinois sets no statewide cap on lot-rent increases, and state law bars cities from setting a local one (50 ILCS 825) — but every increase needs 90 days' written notice, and a resident whose new rent would top 45% of household income can defer paying the increase for up to a year while listing their home for sale (765 ILCS 745/6, 745/6.4).
Where does the water at Bookwalter Woods come from?
Bookwalter Woods operates its own public water system, registered with the EPA as IL0635125 ("BOOKWALTER WOODS MHP"). That means the park — not a city utility — supplies and is accountable for the water at each lot. You can look up its monitoring and compliance record by that id in the EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System.
Nearby parks in Grundy County
- Burt Estates · Coal City · 187 spaces
- Hildy Mobile Home Park LLC · Morris · 20 spaces
- Shady Oaks MHP · Minooka · 365 spaces
- Old Mazon MHP · Mazon · 14 spaces
Free tools
- Park value & profitability estimator: what a 168-space park earns and what it's worth, at the cap rate you pick.
- Rent increase calculator: the 2026 Illinois cap applied to a 168-space park.
- RUBS calculator: split one master-meter water bill across 168 lots so the pennies add up exactly.
- Water submeter calculator: two meter reads in, an at-cost tenant bill out.
- Notice generator: a clean, printable rent-increase notice with the dates filled in.
- Prorated rent calculator: the exact first-month charge when someone moves in mid-cycle.
Registry record
| Registered with | The Illinois Department of Public Health |
|---|---|
| Listed as | BOOKWALTER WOODS |
Data from official state registry that may be out of date.
Source: Illinois Department of Public Health manufactured home communities directory (dph.illinois.gov), as of July 23, 2026. Counts come from the state's registry and can lag real life. See something out of date? Tell us, or claim the page.