Centennial Park
Centennial Park is a park in Illinois, at a recorded elevation of 193 m. Mount Trashmore stands 204 m to the south-southeast, 3.5 miles off. The nearest named place is Walter S. Lovelace Park, a park 0.4 miles away. Historic Route 66 passes 14 miles off. 11 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 193 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- Wilmette Park District
How to reach it
- 13.6 mi off the Historic Route 66, National
Overlooks nearby
- Des Plaines River · 21 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Walter S. Lovelace Park: 0.4 mi
- Community Park: 0.5 mi
- Horace E. Bent Park: 0.7 mi
- Shabonee Park: 0.8 mi
- Allen Weissburg Park: 0.8 mi
- Wilmette Historical Museum: 0.6 mi
- Gichigamiin Indigenous Nations Museum: 0.9 mi
- Kenilworth Historical Society: 1.4 mi
- Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center: 1.7 mi
- Evanston Ecology Center: 1.9 mi
- Picnic: 0.7 mi
- Ackerman Park Picnic Tables: 1.4 mi
- Harms Woods Picnic Grove 6: 2.0 mi
- Harms Woods Picnic Shelter Grove 3: 2.0 mi
- Harms Woods Picnic Grove 4: 2.1 mi
- Cartwright Mound: 0.9 mi
- Sculpture: 1.0 mi
- Viking: 1.3 mi
- Trunnion II: 2.4 mi
- La Souterraine: 2.4 mi
- Stephen R. Keay Nature Learning Center: 1.0 mi
- Perkins Woods Forest Preserve: 1.3 mi
- Harms Flatwoods Nature Preserve: 1.8 mi
- Calvin R. Sutker Grove: 1.8 mi
- Forest Preserve District of Cook County: 2.0 mi
- Sharp Corners: 1.3 mi
- Dr. Janusz Korczak: 1.7 mi
- Mahatma Gandhi: 2.1 mi
- Antoine Ouilmette: 2.3 mi
- Blue Star Memorial Highway: 2.3 mi
- Eggleston Park Food Forest: 1.8 mi
- McCormick Gardens: 1.9 mi
- Twiggs Canal Gardens: 2.0 mi
- Community garden: 2.7 mi
- Skokie Community Garden: 2.8 mi
- Kenilworth Beach: 2.0 mi
- Langdon Park Beach: 2.1 mi
- Langdon Beach: 2.2 mi
- Elder Lane Beach: 2.2 mi
- Cherry Street Beach: 2.4 mi
- Leaning Tower of Niles: 4.8 mi
- Novelty Golf & Games: 5.1 mi
- Model Railroad Garden: 6.1 mi
- Plant identification trail: 7.9 mi
- Sugar Shack: 8.0 mi
- Mount Trashmore: 3.5 mi
- Centennial Hill: 7.3 mi
- Horner Park Hill: 7.9 mi
- Schiller Woods-East Sledding Hill: 9.7 mi
- Hidden Hill: 10.1 mi
- Rain Garden Springs: 6.2 mi
- Rosemont Waterfall: 8.5 mi
- Covington Bluff: 11.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Centennial Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Trashmore | SSE 157° | 204 m | 3.5 mi |
| Players Hill | S 188° | 187 m | 13.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:55 | 18:26 | 19:03 |
| June solstice | 05:16 | 19:49 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:39 | 18:13 | 18:50 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 15:38 | 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 | 24 | 28 | 37 | 47 | 58 | 68 | 73 | 72 | 65 | 53 | 41 | 30 |
| Precip in | 2.1 | 2.0 | 2.3 | 4.0 | 4.8 | 4.3 | 3.7 | 4.2 | 3.6 | 3.6 | 2.6 | 2.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Chicago Botanic Garden, 6 mi away.
- American Robin116 obs
- Northern Cardinal110 obs
- Monarch100 obs
- House Sparrow96 obs
- Common Eastern Bumble Bee92 obs
- Eastern Cottontail86 obs
- Mourning Dove84 obs
- Western Honey Bee75 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/23609355
Day trips start here
- Chicago/Logan-Bucktown · 10 mi
- Chicago/Far West Side · 12 mi
- Chicago/Wicker Park · 12 mi
- Chicago/Near North · 13 mi
- Chicagoland · 13 mi
- Chicago/Loop · 14 mi
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