Fitzsimons Park
Fitzsimons Park is a park in Illinois, at a recorded elevation of 183 m. Mount Trashmore stands 204 m to the southwest, 1.5 miles off. The nearest named place is Grey Park, a park 0.2 miles away. Historic Route 66 passes 11 miles off. 11 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 183 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- Evanston Parks & Recreation
How to reach it
- 10.9 mi off the Historic Route 66, National
Overlooks nearby
- Des Plaines River · 20 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Grey Park: 0.2 mi
- Eiden Park: 0.3 mi
- Jennifer Morris Park: 0.3 mi
- Larimer Park: 0.3 mi
- Trahan Park: 0.4 mi
- Merrick Rose Garden: 0.6 mi
- Elks Park Comunity Garden: 0.9 mi
- Howard Area Community Garden: 1.1 mi
- Hello! Howard Garden: 1.4 mi
- James Parks Gardens: 1.4 mi
- Evanston History Center: 0.7 mi
- Evanston Ecology Center: 1.7 mi
- Gichigamiin Indigenous Nations Museum: 2.7 mi
- Leather Archives and Museum: 2.7 mi
- Exploratorium: 3.2 mi
- Lee Street Beach: 0.7 mi
- Greenwood Street Beach: 0.7 mi
- Dog Beach: 0.9 mi
- South Boulevard Beach: 1.0 mi
- Clark Street Beach: 1.0 mi
- Sea of Ear: 0.7 mi
- Untitled, 1979: 1.2 mi
- Man Passing Through the Door, 1966: 1.2 mi
- Two Forms (Divided Circle), 1969: 1.2 mi
- Curved Form, 1961: 1.2 mi
- Veterans Memorial Wall: 0.7 mi
- Weber Arch: 1.1 mi
- Mahatma Gandhi: 1.5 mi
- Dr. Janusz Korczak: 2.1 mi
- Salvadoran Martyrs Memorial: 2.9 mi
- Clark Street Beach Bird Sanctuary: 1.0 mi
- Ladd Arboretum: 1.7 mi
- Indian Boundary Nature Play Center: 1.9 mi
- Perkins Woods Forest Preserve: 2.2 mi
- Loyola Dunes: 2.4 mi
- Ackerman Park Picnic Tables: 2.3 mi
- Picnic: 2.8 mi
- Peterson Picnic Area: 3.9 mi
- Lincoln Park - Grove 17: 4.6 mi
- Harms Woods Picnic Shelter Grove 1: 4.6 mi
- Novelty Golf & Games: 3.3 mi
- Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom: 4.8 mi
- Leaning Tower of Niles: 5.5 mi
- Biograph Theatre: 7.8 mi
- Polar Bears: 8.2 mi
- Mount Trashmore: 1.5 mi
- Horner Park Hill: 5.3 mi
- Centennial Hill: 8.7 mi
- Schiller Woods-East Sledding Hill: 9.9 mi
- Hidden Hill: 10.2 mi
- Rain Garden Springs: 3.4 mi
- Rosemont Waterfall: 9.6 mi
- Covington Bluff: 14.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Fitzsimons Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Trashmore | SW 232° | 204 m | 1.5 mi |
| Players Hill | SSW 201° | 187 m | 11.9 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 | 19:48 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:39 | 18:13 | 18:50 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 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, 9 mi away.
- Eastern Cottontail341 obs
- Red-winged Blackbird216 obs
- common milkweed184 obs
- American Robin181 obs
- Monarch179 obs
- Canada Goose166 obs
- Black Swallowtail144 obs
- House Sparrow140 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/166098816
Day trips start here
- Chicago/Logan-Bucktown · 8 mi
- Chicago/Wicker Park · 9 mi
- Chicago/Far West Side · 10 mi
- Chicago/Near North · 10 mi
- Chicagoland · 10 mi
- Chicago · 11 mi
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