Crystal Lake station

Crystal Lake
Crystal Lake station in July 2016.
General information
Location	Woodstock Avenue & Grant Street Crystal Lake, Illinois
Coordinates	42°14′39″N 88°19′02″W / 42.2441°N 88.3172°W / 42.2441; -88.3172
Owned by	City of Crystal Lake
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	Pace Buses
Construction
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	4
History
Opened	1915
Passengers
2018	1,138 (average weekday)[1]  5.1%
Rank	36 out of 236[1]
Services
Preceding station Metra Following station Woodstock toward Harvard Union Pacific Northwest Harvard Branch Pingree Road toward Ogilvie
Former services Preceding station Chicago and North Western Railway Following station Ridgefield toward Minneapolis Chicago – Minneapolis via Madison Barrington toward Chicago Terminus Wisconsin Division Cary toward Chicago McHenry toward Williams Bay Williams Bay Branch Terminus
Track layout Legend UP-NW northwest to Harvard Grant Street Main Street UP-NW north to McHenry Crystal Lake Avenue UP-NW southeast to Ogilvie This diagram: view talk edit
Location

Crystal Lake is one of two stations on Metra's Union Pacific Northwest Line located in Crystal Lake, Illinois. The station is two stops away from the line's terminus at Harvard, and most of the trains on the Northwest Line only run as far as Crystal Lake. A large coach yard is adjacent to the station and has additional storage tracks to store Metra trains overnight, and on holidays and weekends. A Union Pacific maintenance facility and office, some storage tracks for local freight trains and maintenance of way equipment as well as a junction are also located just southeast of here. The branch line to McHenry splits off at this junction. The station is 43.3 miles (69.7 km) away from Ogilvie Transportation Center.^[2] Parking is available at the station. As of 2018^[update], Crystal Lake is the 36th busiest of the 236 non-downtown stations in the Metra system, with an average of 1,138 weekday boardings.^[1]

As of May 30, 2023, Crystal Lake is served by 52 trains (27 inbound, 25 outbound) on weekdays, by 30 trains (15 in each direction) on Saturdays, and by 20 trains (nine inbound, all 11 outbound) on Sundays.

On weekdays, 13 inbound trains originate from Crystal Lake and 12 trains terminate here, with five inbound trains originating and five outbound trains terminating here on Saturdays, and two inbound trains originating and three outbound trains terminating here on Sundays.