Belleville Heart Garden
Belleville Heart Garden is a garden in Illinois, at a modelled elevation of 146 m. Potato Hill stands 218 m to the southwest, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Herb Garden, a garden less than a tenth of a mile away. Great River Road passes 12 miles off. 19 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What to expect
- Operated by
- City of Belleville Parks & Recreation
- Access
- Yes
- Fee
- No
How to reach it
- 11.8 mi off the Great River Road, National
- 10.7 mi off the Historic National Road - Illinois, National
- 13.7 mi off the Historic Route 66 - MO
- 11.1 mi off the Historic Route 66, National
Overlooks nearby
- 7 Gates of Hell: Gate 1 · 12 mi
- 7 Gates of Hell: Gate 2 · 12 mi
- 7 Gates of Hell: Gates 3 and 4 · 12 mi
- 7 Gates of Hell: Gate 6 · 13 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Belle-Clair Speedway: 0.4 mi
- South Side Park: 0.4 mi
- Khoury League Park: 0.5 mi
- Ever and Anon Park: 0.6 mi
- East End Park: 0.6 mi
- Emma Kunz County Museum: 0.4 mi
- St. Clair County Historical Society: 0.6 mi
- Labor & Industrial Museum: 0.7 mi
- O'Fallon Historical Society: 7.1 mi
- Mascoutah Heritage Museum: 9.7 mi
- September 11 Memorial Walkway of Southern Illinois: 0.4 mi
- Transportation Plaza: 6.7 mi
- Historic Scott Gate: 6.8 mi
- Airlifter's Memorial: 6.9 mi
- O'Fallon Veterans Memorial: 7.9 mi
- Big Red Shoe: 0.8 mi
- Retro Tree: 2.0 mi
- Kinetic Sculpture: 2.1 mi
- Fox: 2.1 mi
- Radish: 13.0 mi
- Herb Garden: 0.0 mi
- Belleville Heart Garden Community Orchard: 0.0 mi
- Rain Garden: 5.8 mi
- Prairie in Progress: 11.1 mi
- Dupo Community Garden: 12.3 mi
- Scenic Red Caboose: 7.1 mi
- World's Largest Catsup Bottle: 10.9 mi
- Shoemaker School: 12.2 mi
- Gateway Arch Riverboats: 13.6 mi
- Budweiser Brewery Experience: 14.1 mi
- Turkey Hill: 5.1 mi
- Mt Millstadt: 6.5 mi
- Clarks Mound: 7.0 mi
- Haubers Hill: 9.7 mi
- Rattlesnake Mound: 10.5 mi
- Whispering Willow Picnic Area: 8.8 mi
- Concession Picnic Site: 16.6 mi
- Tunica Picnic Site: 16.6 mi
- Gurney Picnic Site: 16.7 mi
- Gus Fogt Picnic Site: 16.7 mi
- Stemler Cave Woods Nature Preserve: 10.0 mi
- Horseshoe Lake State Park: 13.8 mi
- GHV Terrace Garden: 16.3 mi
- Tweed Prairie: 16.9 mi
- Poag Sand Prairie: 19.8 mi
- Falling Spring: 11.0 mi
- Headwaters: 15.7 mi
- Caroline Loughlin Fountain: 16.9 mi
- Cabanne Spring: 18.0 mi
- Webster Retention Pond Seep: 20.3 mi
- Gateway Rest Area: 11.9 mi
- Silver Lake Rest Area - Eastbound: 24.5 mi
- Broadway: 15.4 mi
- Columbia Bottom Conservation Area: 22.8 mi
- Wise Falls: 17.8 mi
- Deer Lake Riffles: 18.5 mi
- Stone Arch: 19.6 mi
- Vilhauer Bluff: 24.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Belleville Heart Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Potato Hill | SW 228° | 218 m | 23.2 mi |
| Clarks Mound | NW 317° | 196 m | 7.0 mi |
| Turkey Hill | ESE 119° | 185 m | 5.1 mi |
| Fox Hill | N 354° | 182 m | 13.8 mi |
| Browns Mound | NNE 17° | 174 m | 14.3 mi |
| Berger Hill | ENE 59° | 171 m | 14.1 mi |
| Neudeckers Mountain | NNE 27° | 171 m | 22.1 mi |
| Haubers Hill | SE 138° | 166 m | 9.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:04 | 18:37 | 19:12 |
| June solstice | 05:37 | 19:48 | 20:28 |
| September equinox | 06:48 | 18:24 | 18:59 |
| December solstice | 07:15 | 16:01 | 16:43 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 34 | 38 | 48 | 58 | 68 | 76 | 79 | 77 | 70 | 60 | 48 | 37 |
| Precip in | 2.6 | 2.2 | 3.4 | 4.9 | 5.0 | 4.6 | 4.0 | 3.9 | 3.4 | 3.1 | 3.6 | 2.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Belleville SIU Rsch, 7 mi away.
- Northern Cardinal70 obs
- Common Eastern Bumble Bee37 obs
- Monarch28 obs
- Brown-belted Bumble Bee25 obs
- American Robin24 obs
- Black Swallowtail18 obs
- Mourning Dove17 obs
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail17 obs
Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element way/919236438
Day trips start here
- Belleville · 1 mi
- O'Fallon · 7 mi
- Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site · 11 mi
- Collinsville · 11 mi
- East St. Louis · 11 mi
- Lebanon · 11 mi
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