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Forest Park

Forest Park from directly overhead

Forest Park is a park in Wisconsin, at a modelled elevation of 206 m. Buena Park Hill stands 290 m to the northwest, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Towerline Park, a park 0.6 miles away. 7 named summits stand within 25 miles.

How to reach it

Coordinates42.57874, -87.86588

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Towerline Park: 0.6 mi
  • Woodlawn Park: 0.8 mi
  • Carol Rikli Boys And Girls Park: 0.9 mi
  • Roosevelt Park: 1.0 mi
  • Endee Park: 1.0 mi
Historic sites
  • Civil War Memorial: 2.4 mi
  • Veterans Memorial: 2.4 mi
  • D-Day Memorial: 2.5 mi
  • Christopher Columbus: 2.9 mi
  • Thirty-Second Division Memorial Highway: 3.7 mi
Attractions
  • Wisconsin Welcome Sign: 3.7 mi
  • Laser Tag: 4.7 mi
  • The Vault: 4.7 mi
  • Ballocity: 4.7 mi
  • Bumper Cars: 4.7 mi
Nature reserves
Museums: 31
Beaches: 23
Gardens: 23
  • Sturtevant Community Gardens: 8.5 mi
  • Walden III Rain Garden: 10.5 mi
  • Racine Bicentennial Gardens: 10.9 mi
  • Walkabout Creek: 12.4 mi
  • Bowen Formal Garden: 13.4 mi
Picnic sites: 18
  • Picnic Area: 2.1 mi
  • Picnic Area 1: 6.6 mi
  • Picnic Area 2: 6.6 mi
  • Picnic Area 3: 6.6 mi
  • Picnic Area 4: 6.6 mi
Artworks: 15
  • Jockey International Globe: 1.4 mi
  • Abraham Lincoln: 2.4 mi
  • Ma Mère: 2.9 mi
  • Sphere: 2.9 mi
  • Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln Monument: 10.7 mi
Peaks: 7
Ghost towns: 4
Lighthouses: 4
Springs: 1
  • Indian Spring: 4.7 mi
Rest areas: 1
Cliffs: 1

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Forest Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Buena Park HillNW 309°290 m23.7 mi
Gander MountainWSW 251°283 m17.6 mi
Hill FifteenWSW 250°276 m23.1 mi
Mount TomWNW 288°265 m17.3 mi
Mount MoriahW 259°257 m20.8 mi
Bald KnobSW 233°235 m21.9 mi
Leahy HillSSW 192°234 m10.9 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5618:2719:04
June solstice05:1519:5020:33
September equinox06:3918:1318:51
December solstice07:1915:3616:22

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F242736455565727164524029
Precip in1.91.82.74.24.14.13.43.73.53.52.42.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Kenosha Wwtp, 3 mi away.

  • House Sparrow24 obs
  • Cross Orbweaver16 obs
  • greater fringed gentian15 obs
  • House Finch14 obs
  • inland ceanothus12 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee11 obs
  • Asian Lady Beetle10 obs
  • Chinese Mantis10 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/220680354

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