Bill Young Park
Bill Young Park is a park in Illinois, at a modelled elevation of 213 m. Mounded Landfill stands 259 m to the northwest, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Centennial Park, a park 0.2 miles away. Historic Route 66 passes 9.8 miles off. 18 named summits stand within 25 miles.
How to reach it
- 9.8 mi off the Historic Route 66, National
- 7.3 mi off the Lincoln Highway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Des Plaines River · 12 mi
- Viewing area · 22 mi
- Fabyan Windmill · 29 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Centennial Park: 0.2 mi
- Treetop Park: 0.4 mi
- Centennial Park: 0.4 mi
- Cameno Real Park: 0.6 mi
- Brown Park: 0.6 mi
- Nativity Scene: 1.3 mi
- Palos Park Veteran's Memorial: 4.1 mi
- Centennial Monument: 4.1 mi
- Piotr Przeslica: 6.1 mi
- Reggie Leslie: 6.1 mi
- Orland Grassland: 2.5 mi
- Tampier Lake: 3.1 mi
- Orland Grassland South: 3.6 mi
- Tinley Creek Woods: 4.2 mi
- Swallow Cliff Woods South: 4.4 mi
- Community Garden: 4.0 mi
- Wingren: 7.2 mi
- Oak Savanna: 13.3 mi
- Peirce Park Community Garden: 13.6 mi
- Kesman Garden: 13.7 mi
- Old Zion Museum: 5.2 mi
- Sagawau Environmental Learning Center: 6.1 mi
- Little Red Schoolhouse Nature Center: 6.7 mi
- Lemont Area Historical Society Museum: 8.0 mi
- Robbins Illinois History Museum: 8.3 mi
- Yugo Griffin: 6.9 mi
- Walking Stick: 8.7 mi
- Unknown: 8.7 mi
- Sister 2: 8.7 mi
- Balancing Beam: 8.7 mi
- The Forge: Lemont Quarries: 7.4 mi
- Schmuhl School: 7.6 mi
- The Grainery Building: 7.9 mi
- Homewood Railroad Viewing Platform: 10.9 mi
- Chinese House of Park Forest: 11.8 mi
- Michigan Beach: 12.0 mi
- Westman Beach: 14.6 mi
- Centennial Beach: 18.5 mi
- Munson Beach: 18.8 mi
- Calumet Beach: 18.9 mi
- Belly Button Hill: 7.2 mi
- Centennial Hill: 7.4 mi
- Signal Hill: 7.7 mi
- Mounded Landfill: 13.6 mi
- Spruce Hill: 17.8 mi
- Sawmill Creek Waterfall: 8.2 mi
- Canyon Creek Falls: 8.8 mi
- Canyon Creek Cascade: 8.8 mi
- Chicago Southland Lincoln Oasis: 14.1 mi
- Prairie View Rest Area - Southbound: 16.0 mi
- Prairie View Rest Area - Northbound: 16.1 mi
- Swallow Cliffs: 4.7 mi
- Lake Strini: 12.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Bill Young Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mounded Landfill | NW 307° | 259 m | 13.6 mi |
| Mount Hoy | NW 313° | 255 m | 22.1 mi |
| Players Hill | NNE 16° | 187 m | 18.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:56 | 18:27 | 19:04 |
| June solstice | 05:18 | 19:48 | 20:30 |
| September equinox | 06:40 | 18:14 | 18:51 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 15:40 | 16:25 |
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 | 24 | 27 | 38 | 51 | 62 | 72 | 77 | 75 | 67 | 54 | 41 | 30 |
| Precip in | 2.3 | 2.0 | 2.5 | 4.1 | 5.0 | 4.6 | 4.1 | 4.5 | 3.5 | 3.7 | 2.7 | 2.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Little RED School HSE, 7 mi away.
- Blue-spotted Salamander27 obs
- Great Blue Heron19 obs
- Mallard18 obs
- Canada Goose18 obs
- Killdeer14 obs
- Caspian Tern12 obs
- Common Garter Snake11 obs
- Great Egret11 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/551182216
Day trips start here
- Tinley Park · 4 mi
- Palos Heights · 5 mi
- Oak Forest · 6 mi
- Crestwood · 7 mi
- Alsip · 8 mi
- Lemont · 8 mi
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