Moraine View State Recreation Area
Moraine View State Recreation Area is a nature reserve in Illinois, at a recorded elevation of 267 m. Blue Mound stands 258 m to the north-northwest, 7.4 miles off. The nearest named place is S.H. West County Park, a nature reserve 2.9 miles away. Historic Route 66 passes 14 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 267 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- Illinois Department of Natural Resources
How to reach it
- 13.5 mi off the Historic Route 66, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Bowman Park: 4.5 mi
- Howard Virgin Timber Park: 5.1 mi
- Brickyard Park: 6.0 mi
- Arrowsmith Park: 6.2 mi
- Dooley Park: 7.1 mi
- S.H. West County Park: 2.9 mi
- The Grove: 8.0 mi
- Kenneth L. Schroeder Wildlife Sanctuary: 11.6 mi
- Hedge Apple Woods Nature Preserve: 13.4 mi
- Hidden Creek Nature Sanctuary: 15.0 mi
- Woodland Garden: 13.3 mi
- Shakespeare Garden: 13.3 mi
- White Garden: 13.3 mi
- Moriyama Japanese Gardens: 13.4 mi
- Sarah's Garden: 13.7 mi
- Prairie Aviation Museum: 11.3 mi
- Simpkins Military History Museum: 14.0 mi
- McLean County Museum of History: 14.3 mi
- Children's Discovery Museum: 14.6 mi
- Eyestone School Museum: 15.5 mi
- Concrete Lady: 14.2 mi
- Lincoln-Fell-Davis Statue: 14.4 mi
- What's Your Passion?: 14.4 mi
- Triple Helix Sculpture: 14.4 mi
- Aspiration Fountain: 14.5 mi
- Bosarth Memorial: 9.7 mi
- David Davis Mansion: 13.7 mi
- The Sesquicentennial Gates: 14.3 mi
- Fell Park: 14.7 mi
- Sprague's Super Service: 14.8 mi
- Farmland Rest Area - Eastbound: 10.1 mi
- Farmland Rest Area - Westbound: 10.3 mi
- Funks Grove Rest Area: 19.9 mi
- Benjaminville: 5.8 mi
- Kumler: 11.4 mi
- Historic US Route 66 Sign: 14.6 mi
- Memory Lane: 16.4 mi
- Blue Mound: 7.4 mi
- F.R. Glasener Beach: 22.0 mi
- Old Faithful: 22.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Moraine View State Recreation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Mound | NNW 343° | 258 m | 7.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:59 | 18:31 | 19:07 |
| June solstice | 05:26 | 19:48 | 20:29 |
| September equinox | 06:43 | 18:18 | 18:54 |
| December solstice | 07:15 | 15:49 | 16:32 |
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 | 25 | 29 | 39 | 50 | 62 | 72 | 75 | 73 | 66 | 54 | 41 | 30 |
| Precip in | 2.4 | 2.0 | 2.6 | 3.7 | 4.8 | 4.1 | 4.1 | 3.8 | 3.2 | 3.5 | 2.8 | 2.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Normal 4NE, 15 mi away.
- prairie trillium35 obs
- sharp-lobed hepatica33 obs
- wild geranium32 obs
- Virginia Springbeauty32 obs
- bloodroot29 obs
- Jacob's ladder29 obs
- mayapple27 obs
- Virginia bluebells26 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.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/864494407
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