Boak Park
Boak Park is a park in Illinois, at a recorded elevation of 199 m. Gander Mountain stands 283 m to the west-northwest, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Vision Park, a park 0.7 miles away. 7 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 199 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Vision Park: 0.7 mi
- Foss Park: 0.7 mi
- Constitution Park: 0.8 mi
- Foss Park: 0.9 mi
- Coles Park: 0.9 mi
- National Museum of the American Sailor: 0.8 mi
- Waukegan History Museum at the Carnegie: 2.6 mi
- Lake Bluff History Museum: 3.1 mi
- The African American Museum at the England Manor: 3.1 mi
- Waukegan History Museum: 4.4 mi
- F-14 Tomcat: 1.1 mi
- Goliath: 5.2 mi
- Krazy Kars: 5.2 mi
- ZoomJets: 5.2 mi
- Sprocket Rockets: 5.2 mi
- Edison Court Station on the North Shore Line: 2.4 mi
- Veterans Memorial Plaza: 2.5 mi
- Ray Bradbury: 2.6 mi
- Soldiers and Sailors Monument: 2.6 mi
- Roundout Train Robbery: 3.9 mi
- Prairie Preserve on Belle Foret Drive: 2.6 mi
- Dwyer Woods: 2.9 mi
- Rockland Wetlands: 3.1 mi
- Beach Prairie Preserve: 3.3 mi
- Ravine Park: 3.3 mi
- Bowen Formal Garden: 4.4 mi
- Ed, Olga and JJ Rogan Tribute Garden: 4.6 mi
- Elawa Farm: 4.9 mi
- McClure Rain Garden: 5.2 mi
- Revery Prairie: 5.2 mi
- Picnic Grove: 5.3 mi
- Picnic Area: 10.5 mi
- Picnic Grove: 11.9 mi
- Turnbull Woods Picnic Shelter Grove 1: 12.6 mi
- Potawatomi Woods Grove #1: 12.9 mi
- Waukegan Municipal Beach: 3.1 mi
- Sunrise Beach: 3.3 mi
- Waukegan Beach: 3.5 mi
- Forest Park Beach: 5.1 mi
- Independence Grove Beach: 5.3 mi
- Leahy Hill: 7.7 mi
- sled hill: 7.9 mi
- Bald Knob: 18.9 mi
- Gander Mountain: 21.2 mi
- Centennial Hill: 21.9 mi
- Light 1: 1.7 mi
- Light 2: 1.7 mi
- Kenosha North Pierhead Light: 18.4 mi
- Kenosha Light: 18.4 mi
- Indian Spring: 22.3 mi
- Rain Garden Springs: 24.6 mi
- Covington Bluff: 6.9 mi
- Kenosha Rest Area 26 (I-94 WB): 14.7 mi
- Aurora: 17.9 mi
- Rosemont Waterfall: 23.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Boak Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gander Mountain | WNW 304° | 283 m | 21.2 mi |
| Hill Fifteen | WNW 293° | 276 m | 24.6 mi |
| Bald Knob | WNW 283° | 235 m | 18.9 mi |
| Leahy Hill | NNW 335° | 234 m | 7.7 mi |
| Mount Trashmore | SSE 161° | 204 m | 22.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:56 | 18:27 | 19:04 |
| June solstice | 05:16 | 19:50 | 20:32 |
| September equinox | 06:39 | 18:13 | 18:51 |
| December solstice | 07:18 | 15:37 | 16:23 |
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 | 23 | 26 | 36 | 45 | 57 | 67 | 72 | 71 | 64 | 52 | 40 | 29 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Waukegan, 3 mi away.
- Common Eastern Bumble Bee42 obs
- Brown-belted Bumble Bee33 obs
- Canada Goose19 obs
- American Robin16 obs
- European Starling16 obs
- Two-spotted Bumble Bee16 obs
- Golden Northern Bumble Bee15 obs
- Red-belted Bumble Bee15 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/966904879
Day trips start here
- Chicago/Logan-Bucktown · 29 mi
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