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Sunken Gardens

Sunken Gardens from directly overhead

Sunken Gardens is a garden in Illinois, at a recorded elevation of 182 m. Mounded Landfill stands 259 m to the west-southwest, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Homan Square Park, a park 0.2 miles away. Historic Route 66 passes 0.9 miles off. 20 named summits stand within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
182 m
Visiting

What to expect

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates41.87031, -87.70969

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Homan Square Park: 0.2 mi
  • Magnolia Park: 0.2 mi
  • Park No. 422: 0.3 mi
  • Gladys Park: 0.4 mi
  • Boler Park: 0.4 mi
Historic sites
  • Norman Cornwall Memorial (WWI Obelisk): 0.6 mi
  • Vietnam Survivors Memorial: 1.4 mi
  • Ice=Cream Dream: 1.7 mi
  • M3 Stuart Tank: 1.8 mi
  • Louis Pasteur Monument: 1.9 mi
Artworks
Gardens
  • Music Court: 0.8 mi
  • Water Courts Formal Garden: 0.8 mi
  • Water Courts Formal Garden: 0.9 mi
  • Troy Community Garden: 1.0 mi
  • Sensory Garden: 1.2 mi
Nature reserves
Attractions
Museums
Picnic sites
  • Taylor Park Patio: 4.5 mi
  • Picnic Grove C: 4.8 mi
  • Picnic Grove B: 4.8 mi
  • Lincoln Park - Grove 5: 5.1 mi
  • Lincoln Park - Grove 2: 5.1 mi
Beaches: 58
Peaks: 20
  • Players Hill: 3.0 mi
  • Mount Bridgeport: 3.7 mi
  • Soldier Field Sledding Hill: 5.0 mi
  • Horner Park Hill: 6.2 mi
  • Obama Center Sled Hill: 8.7 mi
Waterfalls: 4
Springs: 1
  • Rain Garden Springs: 8.1 mi
Cliffs: 1
Ghost towns: 1
Rest areas: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mounded LandfillWSW 243°259 m21.3 mi
Mount HoyW 264°255 m24.4 mi
Mount TrashmoreN 1°204 m10.6 mi
Players HillW 277°187 m3.0 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5518:2619:03
June solstice05:1719:4820:30
September equinox06:3918:1318:50
December solstice07:1615:3916:24

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
  • Piping Plover66 obs
  • common milkweed59 obs
  • American Robin58 obs
  • Black Swallowtail56 obs
  • Monarch55 obs
  • Canada Goose46 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel40 obs
  • Red Admiral40 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/218923618

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