Blackhawk Park
Blackhawk Park is a park in Illinois, at a modelled elevation of 196 m. Mounded Landfill stands 259 m to the south-southwest, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Northshire Park, a park 0.1 miles away. Historic Route 66 passes 17 miles off. 18 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Des Plaines Park District
How to reach it
- 16.7 mi off the Historic Route 66, National
- 22.8 mi off the Lincoln Highway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Des Plaines River · 19 mi
- Fabyan Windmill · 23 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Northshire Park: 0.1 mi
- Tomahawk Park: 0.4 mi
- Kutchen Park: 0.4 mi
- Sunrise Park: 0.4 mi
- Cumberland Terrace: 0.5 mi
- Mount Prospect Historical Society: 1.2 mi
- Des Plaines History Museum: 1.8 mi
- Kinder House: 1.8 mi
- River Trail Nature Center: 3.5 mi
- Robert Kennicott House: 3.7 mi
- 1000 gecs tree: 1.4 mi
- Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe: 1.8 mi
- Sugar Shack: 3.5 mi
- Plant identification trail: 3.5 mi
- Leaning Tower of Niles: 7.4 mi
- Maple Street Butterfly Waystation (#45081): 1.5 mi
- Frontier Park Gardens: 5.9 mi
- KE20: 6.2 mi
- KE19: 6.3 mi
- West Fork Corridor Native Rain Garden: 6.3 mi
- Lions Woods: 1.6 mi
- Hill Street Nature Center: 1.7 mi
- Kloempken Prairie: 1.9 mi
- Northwestern Woods: 2.2 mi
- Kloempken Prairie Preserve: 2.3 mi
- Lions Woods Grove #1: 1.8 mi
- Northwestern Woods Grove #1: 2.2 mi
- Big Bend Lake Grove #1: 2.4 mi
- Dam No. 2 Woods Grove #1: 2.7 mi
- Camp Ground Road Woods Grove #1: 2.8 mi
- Belleau Wood Memorial: 2.3 mi
- Flight 191 Memorial: 3.1 mi
- The Plank Road: 3.6 mi
- In Honor of Those Who Served: 4.9 mi
- Edward Butch O'Hare: 5.1 mi
- Statue of Liberty: 2.7 mi
- Wing: 3.1 mi
- William Dunton: 3.9 mi
- Donald E. Stephens: 4.7 mi
- City Windows: 4.8 mi
- Glencoe Beach: 10.6 mi
- Tower Road Beach: 10.6 mi
- Maple Street Beach: 10.7 mi
- Cherry Street Beach: 10.8 mi
- Elder Lane Beach: 11.0 mi
- Centennial Hill: 4.7 mi
- Schiller Woods-East Sledding Hill: 7.7 mi
- Hidden Hill: 7.9 mi
- Mount Trashmore: 11.1 mi
- sled hill: 11.8 mi
- Rosemont Waterfall: 5.1 mi
- Sawmill Creek Waterfall: 23.9 mi
- Rain Garden Springs: 12.6 mi
- Covington Bluff: 13.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Blackhawk Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mounded Landfill | SSW 200° | 259 m | 23.6 mi |
| Mount Hoy | SW 222° | 255 m | 20.2 mi |
| Mount Trashmore | E 100° | 204 m | 11.1 mi |
| Players Hill | SSE 147° | 187 m | 14.4 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 | 20:32 |
| 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 | 38 | 49 | 60 | 70 | 75 | 73 | 66 | 54 | 41 | 30 |
| Precip in | 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.8 | 3.3 | 3.8 | 4.0 | 3.2 | 3.7 | 3.0 | 3.1 | 2.1 | 1.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Chicago Palwaukee AP, 5 mi away.
- Western Honey Bee31 obs
- Black Swallowtail31 obs
- Monarch28 obs
- House Sparrow23 obs
- Red Admiral23 obs
- Common Eastern Bumble Bee23 obs
- Eastern Cottontail22 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel21 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/594381293
Day trips start here
- Chicago/Far West Side · 14 mi
- Chicago/Logan-Bucktown · 14 mi
- Oak Brook · 15 mi
- Berwyn · 16 mi
- Brookfield · 16 mi
- Chicago/Wicker Park · 16 mi
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