Central Park
Central Park is a park in Illinois, at a recorded elevation of 193 m. Mount Trashmore stands 204 m to the east-southeast, 5.7 miles off. The nearest named place is Judy Beck Park, a park 0.3 miles away. Historic Route 66 passes 15 miles off. 14 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 193 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- Glenview Park District
How to reach it
- 14.6 mi off the Historic Route 66, National
- 28.6 mi off the Lincoln Highway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Des Plaines River · 20 mi
- Fabyan Windmill · 29 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Judy Beck Park: 0.3 mi
- Johns Park: 0.5 mi
- Manor Park: 0.6 mi
- Diedrich Park: 0.7 mi
- Jackman Park: 0.7 mi
- West Fork Corridor Native Rain Garden: 0.4 mi
- Community garden: 1.6 mi
- Skokie Community Garden: 3.2 mi
- Niles Community Rain Garden: 3.7 mi
- Glencoe Community Garden: 5.0 mi
- Glenview History Center: 0.6 mi
- 1920s Wagner Farm House: 1.5 mi
- Wagner Farm Heritage Center: 1.5 mi
- Niles Historical Society: 2.1 mi
- Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center: 2.2 mi
- Glenview Bear: 0.7 mi
- Statue of Liberty: 1.9 mi
- Viking: 2.4 mi
- Undercover History: 2.8 mi
- Lincoln on a Bench: 3.7 mi
- Glenview Woods: 1.5 mi
- Forest Preserve District of Cook County: 1.5 mi
- Harms Woods-North: 1.6 mi
- Blue Star Memorial Woods: 1.6 mi
- Wayside Woods: 1.7 mi
- Blue Star Memorial Highway: 1.6 mi
- War Memorial: 2.1 mi
- Sharp Corners: 3.1 mi
- The Plank Road: 3.4 mi
- Iraq & Afghanistan Veterans Memorial: 3.4 mi
- Leaning Tower of Niles: 3.8 mi
- Plant identification trail: 4.7 mi
- Sugar Shack: 4.7 mi
- Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe: 4.8 mi
- Model Railroad Garden: 5.7 mi
- Cherry Street Beach: 4.9 mi
- Maple Street Beach: 4.9 mi
- Elder Lane Beach: 5.0 mi
- Tower Road Beach: 5.0 mi
- Kenilworth Beach: 5.2 mi
- Centennial Hill: 4.7 mi
- Mount Trashmore: 5.7 mi
- Schiller Woods-East Sledding Hill: 7.8 mi
- Hidden Hill: 8.3 mi
- Horner Park Hill: 9.1 mi
- Rosemont Waterfall: 5.9 mi
- Rain Garden Springs: 7.9 mi
- Covington Bluff: 11.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Central Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Trashmore | ESE 121° | 204 m | 5.7 mi |
| Players Hill | S 172° | 187 m | 13.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:55 | 18:27 | 19:04 |
| 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, 5 mi away.
- large white trillium191 obs
- prairie trillium179 obs
- Virginia Springbeauty170 obs
- White-tailed Deer161 obs
- wild geranium135 obs
- mayapple127 obs
- Dryad's Saddle117 obs
- cut-leaved toothwort116 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/1197593849
Day trips start here
- Chicago/Logan-Bucktown · 11 mi
- Chicago/Far West Side · 12 mi
- Chicago/Wicker Park · 13 mi
- Chicagoland · 14 mi
- Berwyn · 15 mi
- Chicago/Loop · 15 mi
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