Babe Ruth Park
Babe Ruth Park is a park in Illinois, at a recorded elevation of 192 m. Mounded Landfill stands 259 m to the southwest, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Flippinger Park, a park 0.1 miles away. Historic Route 66 passes 4.5 miles off. 20 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 192 m
How to reach it
- 4.5 mi off the Historic Route 66, National
- 22.7 mi off the Lincoln Highway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Des Plaines River · 7 mi
- Fabyan Windmill · 23 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Flippinger Park: 0.1 mi
- Winfield Scott Park: 0.4 mi
- Lemm Park: 0.4 mi
- Beach Street Broadview Media Staging Area: 0.5 mi
- Bataan Park: 0.5 mi
- Kiddieland: 1.3 mi
- Veteran Memorial: 1.6 mi
- The Chase Rock: 1.6 mi
- Underground Railroad Memorial: 1.7 mi
- Kiwanis Club of Westchester: 1.8 mi
- Broadview Community Garden: 1.5 mi
- Sally Schulz Memorial Butterfly Garden: 2.7 mi
- Triton College Botanical Garden: 3.0 mi
- Healing Garden: 3.1 mi
- Lincoln School Garden: 3.5 mi
- Fred Hampton: 1.5 mi
- George Dilboy Memorial Statue: 1.6 mi
- Cougar Pride: 3.2 mi
- Tree: 3.2 mi
- Elephant: 3.2 mi
- Quercus Woods Family Picnic Area: 1.6 mi
- Miller Meadow-South Grove #1: 1.8 mi
- Maywood Grove Grove #1: 1.8 mi
- Miller Meadow-South Grove #2: 1.9 mi
- Miller Meadow-South Grove #3: 2.0 mi
- Quercus Woods Preserve: 1.6 mi
- Forest Preserve District of Cook County: 1.8 mi
- Maywood Grove: 1.8 mi
- Maywood Grove Preserve: 1.9 mi
- G.A.R. Woods: 1.9 mi
- Casa Italia: 1.9 mi
- Hal Tyrrell Trailside Museum of Natural History: 2.2 mi
- 16 Inch Softball Hall of Fame Museum: 2.5 mi
- Austin Gardens Environmental Education Center: 3.3 mi
- Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio: 3.5 mi
- Bishop's Mausoleum: 2.4 mi
- Al Capone's Gravesite: 2.4 mi
- Addax: 3.1 mi
- Grevy's Zebra: 3.2 mi
- Giraffe Feeding Area: 3.2 mi
- Westman Beach: 6.5 mi
- Humboldt Beach: 8.4 mi
- Oak Street Beach: 12.5 mi
- Ohio Street Beach: 12.9 mi
- Montrose Dog Beach: 13.0 mi
- Players Hill: 4.9 mi
- Hidden Hill: 5.2 mi
- Schiller Woods-East Sledding Hill: 5.6 mi
- Centennial Hill: 9.1 mi
- Horner Park Hill: 10.3 mi
- Rosemont Waterfall: 7.9 mi
- Sawmill Creek Waterfall: 12.9 mi
- Canyon Creek Cascade: 14.7 mi
- Canyon Creek Falls: 14.8 mi
- Rain Garden Springs: 11.8 mi
- Lake Strini: 20.0 mi
- Swallow Cliffs: 13.6 mi
- Covington Bluff: 24.4 mi
- Chicago Southland Lincoln Oasis: 24.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Babe Ruth Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mounded Landfill | SW 228° | 259 m | 15.0 mi |
| Mount Hoy | W 259° | 255 m | 16.6 mi |
| Mount Trashmore | NE 38° | 204 m | 13.0 mi |
| Players Hill | E 91° | 187 m | 4.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:56 | 18:27 | 19:04 |
| June solstice | 05:17 | 19:49 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:40 | 18:14 | 18:51 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 15:39 | 16:24 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 25 | 29 | 39 | 50 | 61 | 71 | 75 | 74 | 66 | 54 | 41 | 31 |
| Precip in | 2.0 | 2.0 | 2.5 | 3.8 | 4.5 | 4.1 | 3.7 | 4.2 | 3.2 | 3.4 | 2.4 | 2.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Chicago Ohare Intl AP, 7 mi away.
- Eastern Gray Squirrel78 obs
- House Sparrow46 obs
- Monarch38 obs
- Northern Cardinal34 obs
- White-tailed Deer33 obs
- Eastern Cottontail30 obs
- Dark-eyed Junco26 obs
- American Robin25 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/32334603
Day trips start here
- Berwyn · 4 mi
- Brookfield · 4 mi
- La Grange · 5 mi
- Oak Brook · 5 mi
- Western Springs · 5 mi
- Chicago/Far West Side · 6 mi
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