Carefree Park
Carefree Park is a park in Illinois, at a modelled elevation of 212 m. Mounded Landfill stands 259 m to the south-southwest, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Dunton School, a park 0.3 miles away. Historic Route 66 passes 18 miles off. 18 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Arlington Heights Park District
How to reach it
- 18.4 mi off the Historic Route 66, National
- 20.6 mi off the Lincoln Highway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Des Plaines River · 21 mi
- Fabyan Windmill · 21 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Dunton School: 0.3 mi
- Cypress Park: 0.3 mi
- Prairie Park: 0.4 mi
- Dryden Park: 0.7 mi
- Heritage Park: 0.7 mi
- Kingsbridge Arboretum: 1.0 mi
- Busse Forest Nature Preserve: 1.9 mi
- Hill Street Nature Center: 2.7 mi
- Busse Lake Boating Center Grove: 3.1 mi
- Lions Woods: 4.6 mi
- William Dunton: 1.6 mi
- First Iron Poured: 4.2 mi
- Heroic Encounter: 5.0 mi
- Thought - Rise in Vacuum I: 5.0 mi
- Touching Heaven: 5.0 mi
- Arlington Heights Historical Museum: 2.0 mi
- Mount Prospect Historical Society: 2.2 mi
- Rolling Meadows Historical Museum: 2.2 mi
- Farmhouse Museum: 4.3 mi
- Farmhouse Museum: 4.4 mi
- Busse Forest-North Grove 2: 2.0 mi
- Busse Forest-North Grove 1: 2.3 mi
- Busse Forest-South Grove 7: 2.6 mi
- Busse Forest-South Grove 8: 2.6 mi
- Busse Forest-South Grove 10: 2.7 mi
- Maple Street Butterfly Waystation (#45081): 2.2 mi
- Frontier Park Gardens: 3.9 mi
- Illinois Heritage Grove: 4.7 mi
- Bob Link Arboretum: 5.0 mi
- Native Prairie Wildflower Sanctuary: 5.9 mi
- K.A.M.P. Memorial: 3.5 mi
- Motorola Retirees Memorial: 3.9 mi
- Garden Gate: 4.1 mi
- Unknown Author Stone: 4.1 mi
- Belleau Wood Memorial: 5.3 mi
- 1000 gecs tree: 3.9 mi
- Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe: 4.2 mi
- Chicago Athenaeum International Sculpture Park: 5.1 mi
- Medieval Times: 5.1 mi
- Sugar Shack: 5.3 mi
- Whitney Shores Private Beach: 11.2 mi
- Glencoe Beach: 12.9 mi
- Rosewood Beach: 13.0 mi
- Lakeview Beach and Dock: 13.0 mi
- Millard Beach: 13.0 mi
- Centennial Hill: 7.6 mi
- Schiller Woods-East Sledding Hill: 10.0 mi
- Hidden Hill: 10.2 mi
- Heritage Park Sled Hill: 10.3 mi
- sled hill: 12.6 mi
- Rosemont Waterfall: 7.7 mi
- Sawmill Creek Waterfall: 24.5 mi
- Covington Bluff: 14.3 mi
- Rain Garden Springs: 15.6 mi
- Weston: 21.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Carefree Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mounded Landfill | SSW 193° | 259 m | 23.4 mi |
| Mount Hoy | SSW 214° | 255 m | 18.9 mi |
| Mount Trashmore | E 100° | 204 m | 14.1 mi |
| Players Hill | SE 140° | 187 m | 16.7 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 | 07:18 | 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, 6 mi away.
- Eastern Cottontail16 obs
- Asian Lady Beetle15 obs
- Common Garter Snake14 obs
- Monarch14 obs
- wild geranium13 obs
- common buckthorn13 obs
- eastern shooting star13 obs
- eastern prairie fringed orchid12 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/68732015
Day trips start here
- Chicago/Far West Side · 16 mi
- Oak Brook · 16 mi
- Wheaton · 16 mi
- Chicago/Logan-Bucktown · 17 mi
- Downers Grove · 17 mi
- Berwyn · 18 mi
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