Carpenter Park
Carpenter Park is a nature reserve in Illinois, at a recorded elevation of 178 m. Elkhart Hill stands 221 m to the northeast, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Riverside Park, a nature reserve 0.3 miles away. Historic Route 66 passes 0.5 miles off. 8 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Built
- 1921
- Elevation
- 178 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- Springfield Park District
How to reach it
- 0.5 mi off the Historic Route 66, National
- 65.3 mi off the Great River Road, National
Overlooks nearby
- Capitol View · 5 mi
- Jake's Point Overlook · 28 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Village Park: 1.0 mi
- Indian Hills Park: 2.0 mi
- Kennedy Park: 2.2 mi
- Director's Lawn: 2.2 mi
- Conservation World: 2.2 mi
- Corn: 2.3 mi
- Cow: 2.3 mi
- Lincoln Statue: 2.5 mi
- Bust of Abraham Lincoln: 3.4 mi
- Crucixion with Mourning Women on pedestal: 3.5 mi
- Lincoln and the Talisman: 1.6 mi
- Fighter Jets: 2.7 mi
- AIDS Memorial Labyrinth: 2.9 mi
- First Comprehensive Highway Tree Planting: 3.0 mi
- Lincoln Belltower: 3.3 mi
- Illinois State Fair Museum: 2.2 mi
- Illinois Fire Museum: 2.3 mi
- Shea's Gas Station Museum: 2.7 mi
- Air Combat Museum: 2.7 mi
- Springfield and Central Illinois African-American History Museum: 3.5 mi
- Lorraine DeSouza Perennial Garden: 2.3 mi
- The Neighborhood Garden: 3.9 mi
- Enos Park Sculpture Garden: 4.0 mi
- Garden of Hope: 4.4 mi
- Climate Restoration Area: 4.4 mi
- High Dive Show: 2.4 mi
- Milk a Cow: 2.4 mi
- Route 66 Experience: 2.4 mi
- Lincoln's Home: 4.9 mi
- Shell Gas Station: 7.3 mi
- Riverside Park: 0.3 mi
- Gurgens Park: 1.0 mi
- Margery Adams Wildlife Sanctuary: 4.4 mi
- Sangamon River State Natural Area: 7.0 mi
- Wanless Park: 8.8 mi
- Walnut Hill: 8.8 mi
- Cotton Hill: 13.2 mi
- Elkhart Hill: 13.5 mi
- Yellow Hammer Knob: 16.9 mi
- Polecat Hill: 17.2 mi
- Iron Spring: 6.0 mi
- Hampton Bluff: 17.8 mi
- Gurney: 22.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Carpenter Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elkhart Hill | NE 37° | 221 m | 13.5 mi |
| Walnut Hill | NNE 28° | 197 m | 8.8 mi |
| Polecat Hill | NNE 15° | 187 m | 17.2 mi |
| Cotton Hill | SSE 168° | 186 m | 13.2 mi |
| Yellow Hammer Knob | ESE 105° | 183 m | 16.9 mi |
| Kingfisher Hill | NW 307° | 183 m | 23.8 mi |
| Lockenauer Hill | NE 41° | 180 m | 21.4 mi |
| Pool Hill | NNE 14° | 176 m | 21.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:03 | 18:35 | 19:11 |
| June solstice | 05:31 | 19:50 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:47 | 18:22 | 18:57 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 15:55 | 16:38 |
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 | 28 | 32 | 43 | 54 | 65 | 74 | 77 | 75 | 68 | 56 | 44 | 33 |
| Precip in | 2.0 | 1.9 | 2.8 | 4.0 | 4.5 | 4.6 | 3.9 | 3.4 | 2.9 | 3.3 | 2.7 | 2.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Springfield Abraham Lincoln CA, 4 mi away.
- Butterweed23 obs
- common pawpaw22 obs
- blue phlox20 obs
- mayapple19 obs
- White-tailed Deer16 obs
- Jack-in-the-Pulpit16 obs
- prairie trillium15 obs
- woodland stonecrop15 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.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/345143412
Day trips start here
- Petersburg · 16 mi
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