Centennial Park
Centennial Park is a park in Illinois, at a modelled elevation of 184 m. Elkhart Hill stands 221 m to the northeast, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Rotary Park, a park 1.6 miles away. Historic Route 66 passes 4.0 miles off. 6 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Built
- 1997
What to expect
- Operated by
- Springfield Park District
How to reach it
- 4.0 mi off the Historic Route 66, National
- 55.2 mi off the Great River Road, National
Overlooks nearby
- Capitol View · 6 mi
- Jake's Point Overlook · 26 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Rotary Park: 1.6 mi
- Vredenburg Park: 3.0 mi
- Lindbergh Park: 3.2 mi
- Patrick J. Cadigan Park: 3.3 mi
- Lewis Memorial Park: 3.4 mi
- Potawatomi Trail of Death - McCoys Mill Encampment: 1.8 mi
- Angel of Hope: 4.6 mi
- Washington Park: 4.9 mi
- 1908 Race Riot Tour Marker - Edwards School: 6.1 mi
- Illinois Firefighter Memorial: 6.2 mi
- White-tailed Deer: 6.1 mi
- Route 66 Mural: 6.1 mi
- Illinois Landscape #3: 6.1 mi
- Proud Raven Totem Pole: 6.1 mi
- Very Special Mosaic Mural: 6.2 mi
- Washington Park Botanical Garden: 4.5 mi
- Washington Park Rose Garden: 4.6 mi
- Sensory Garden: 5.8 mi
- Vinegar Hill Community Garden: 5.8 mi
- Tranquility Garden: 5.8 mi
- Illinois State Museum: 6.2 mi
- Vachel Lindsay Home: 6.4 mi
- Illinois State Military Museum: 6.4 mi
- Illinois State Museum Research and Collections Center: 6.4 mi
- Kidzeum of Health and Science: 6.5 mi
- Lauterbach Man Statue: 4.3 mi
- Selvaggio Historic Arches: 5.9 mi
- Rotary Sundial: 5.9 mi
- Lincoln's Home: 6.7 mi
- Milk a Cow: 8.1 mi
- Margery Adams Wildlife Sanctuary: 8.1 mi
- Nipper Wildlife Sanctuary: 8.3 mi
- Gurgens Park: 9.7 mi
- Riverside Park: 10.1 mi
- Wanless Park: 10.3 mi
- Cotton Hill: 11.4 mi
- Walnut Hill: 18.9 mi
- Elkhart Hill: 23.7 mi
- Yellow Hammer Knob: 23.8 mi
- Kingfisher Hill: 24.7 mi
- Rail Splitter Rest Area - Northbound: 11.4 mi
- Rail Splitter Rest Area - Southbound: 12.4 mi
- Cavanaugh Bluff: 20.0 mi
- Hampton Bluff: 24.4 mi
- Iron Spring: 4.9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elkhart Hill | NE 40° | 221 m | 23.7 mi |
| Walnut Hill | NE 37° | 197 m | 18.9 mi |
| Cotton Hill | ESE 119° | 186 m | 11.4 mi |
| Yellow Hammer Knob | E 83° | 183 m | 23.8 mi |
| Kingfisher Hill | NNW 331° | 183 m | 24.7 mi |
| Shick Shack Hill | NW 326° | 162 m | 25.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:03 | 18:36 | 19:11 |
| June solstice | 05:32 | 19:51 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:47 | 18:22 | 18:58 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 15:56 | 16:38 |
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 | 27 | 31 | 42 | 53 | 63 | 73 | 76 | 74 | 67 | 55 | 43 | 33 |
| Precip in | 2.2 | 2.2 | 3.0 | 4.1 | 5.1 | 5.0 | 4.4 | 2.9 | 3.1 | 3.1 | 3.1 | 2.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Springfield #2, 5 mi away.
- Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel30 obs
- prairie blazing star15 obs
- New England aster14 obs
- prairie false indigo14 obs
- Field Sparrow11 obs
- Red-winged Blackbird11 obs
- American Robin11 obs
- Eastern Forktail10 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/401681126
Day trips start here
- Petersburg · 18 mi
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