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Brickyard Garden

Brickyard Garden from directly overhead

Brickyard Garden is a garden in Illinois, at a modelled elevation of 180 m. Mount Lieber stands 214 m to the east-southeast, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Huckleberry Park, a park 0.1 miles away. Historic Route 66 passes 6.6 miles off. 23 named summits stand within 25 miles.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
25 families from Woodlawn and South Hyde Park

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Getting there

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Coordinates41.78362, -87.59594

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Huckleberry Park: 0.1 mi
  • Beehive Park: 0.2 mi
  • Park No. 326: 0.4 mi
  • Wadsworth Campus Park: 0.4 mi
  • Moccasin Ranch Park: 0.4 mi
Gardens
  • Midway Plaisance Park South Winter Garden: 0.2 mi
  • The Woodlawn: 0.2 mi
  • Midway Plaisance Park North Winter Garden: 0.3 mi
  • Readers' Garden: 0.3 mi
  • Hydy Park Academy Environmental Studies Nature Park: 0.5 mi
Historic sites
Artworks
  • Dialogo: 0.4 mi
  • Book Bird: 0.5 mi
  • Bending the Arc: 0.5 mi
  • Wonder of Woodlawn: 0.5 mi
  • Broken Men: 0.5 mi
Museums
Picnic sites
  • Jackson Park - Grove 10: 0.6 mi
  • Jackson Park - Grove 8: 0.7 mi
  • Jackson Park - Grove 9: 0.7 mi
  • Jackson Park - Grove 7: 0.7 mi
  • Jackson Park - Grove 6B: 0.8 mi
Attractions
  • Japanese Garden: 0.7 mi
  • Al Capone's House: 1.9 mi
  • Michelle Obama's Childhood Home: 1.9 mi
  • Doane Observatory: 5.7 mi
  • Beluga: 5.9 mi
Nature reserves
Beaches: 58
Peaks: 23
  • Obama Center Sled Hill: 0.5 mi
  • Mount Bridgeport: 4.9 mi
  • Soldier Field Sledding Hill: 5.2 mi
  • Players Hill: 10.9 mi
  • Horner Park Hill: 13.2 mi
Waterfalls: 4
Rest areas: 1
Springs: 1
  • Rain Garden Springs: 14.8 mi
Cliffs: 1
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Brickyard Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount LieberESE 122°214 m21.8 mi
Mount TrashmoreNNW 341°204 m17.5 mi
Chanute HillSE 124°195 m20.5 mi
Players HillNW 306°187 m10.9 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5518:2619:03
June solstice05:1619:4720:29
September equinox06:3818:1318:49
December solstice07:1515:3816:23

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F262938485868747467544331

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Chicago Northerly IS, 5 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Great Blue Heron852 obs
  • American Robin821 obs
  • Mallard817 obs
  • Monarch692 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel690 obs
  • American Herring Gull649 obs
  • Wood Duck595 obs
  • Ring-billed Gull584 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/405530368

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