Clark Street Beach
Clark Street Beach is a beach in Illinois, at a modelled elevation of 176 m. Mount Trashmore stands 204 m to the southwest, 2.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Clark Street Beach Bird Sanctuary, a nature reserve less than a tenth of a mile away. Historic Route 66 passes 12 miles off. 11 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What to expect
- Access
- Customers only
How to reach it
- 11.8 mi off the Historic Route 66, National
Overlooks nearby
- Des Plaines River · 21 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Clark Street Beach Bird Sanctuary: 0.0 mi
- Ladd Arboretum: 1.4 mi
- Perkins Woods Forest Preserve: 2.1 mi
- Elmwood Dunes Preserve: 2.5 mi
- Indian Boundary Nature Play Center: 2.9 mi
- Centennial Park: 0.0 mi
- Cornelia Lunt Park: 0.1 mi
- Patriots Park: 0.3 mi
- Northwestern Lakefill: 0.4 mi
- Dawes Park: 0.4 mi
- Dog Beach: 0.1 mi
- Greenwood Street Beach: 0.5 mi
- North Beach: 0.8 mi
- Lee Street Beach: 0.9 mi
- South Boulevard Beach: 1.5 mi
- Untitled, 1979: 0.2 mi
- Man Passing Through the Door, 1966: 0.2 mi
- Two Forms (Divided Circle), 1969: 0.2 mi
- Curved Form, 1961: 0.2 mi
- Interior Form, 1981: 0.2 mi
- Weber Arch: 0.2 mi
- Veterans Memorial Wall: 0.5 mi
- Mahatma Gandhi: 1.9 mi
- Antoine Ouilmette: 2.3 mi
- Dr. Janusz Korczak: 2.4 mi
- Evanston History Center: 0.4 mi
- Evanston Ecology Center: 1.5 mi
- Gichigamiin Indigenous Nations Museum: 2.5 mi
- Wilmette Historical Museum: 3.1 mi
- Kenilworth Historical Society: 3.4 mi
- Shakespeare Garden: 0.5 mi
- Merrick Rose Garden: 0.8 mi
- Twiggs Canal Gardens: 1.4 mi
- McCormick Gardens: 1.5 mi
- Eggleston Park Food Forest: 1.6 mi
- Ackerman Park Picnic Tables: 2.0 mi
- Picnic: 2.8 mi
- Peterson Picnic Area: 4.9 mi
- Harms Woods Picnic Shelter Grove 1: 5.0 mi
- Harms Woods Picnic Shelter Grove 3: 5.0 mi
- Novelty Golf & Games: 4.3 mi
- Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom: 5.6 mi
- Leaning Tower of Niles: 6.2 mi
- Biograph Theatre: 8.6 mi
- Polar Bears: 8.9 mi
- Mount Trashmore: 2.4 mi
- Horner Park Hill: 6.3 mi
- Centennial Hill: 9.4 mi
- Schiller Woods-East Sledding Hill: 10.8 mi
- Hidden Hill: 11.2 mi
- Rain Garden Springs: 4.4 mi
- Rosemont Waterfall: 10.4 mi
- Covington Bluff: 14.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Clark Street Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Trashmore | SW 223° | 204 m | 2.4 mi |
| Players Hill | SSW 202° | 187 m | 12.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:55 | 18:26 | 19:03 |
| June solstice | 05:16 | 19:48 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:39 | 18:13 | 18:50 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 15:38 | 16:23 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 24 | 28 | 37 | 47 | 58 | 68 | 73 | 72 | 65 | 53 | 41 | 30 |
| Precip in | 2.1 | 2.0 | 2.3 | 4.0 | 4.8 | 4.3 | 3.7 | 4.2 | 3.6 | 3.6 | 2.6 | 2.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Chicago Botanic Garden, 9 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/3649582045
Day trips start here
- Chicago/Logan-Bucktown · 9 mi
- Chicago/Wicker Park · 10 mi
- Chicagoland · 10 mi
- Chicago/Far West Side · 11 mi
- Chicago/Near North · 11 mi
- Chicago · 12 mi
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