Gladstone Park
Gladstone Park is a park in Illinois, at a modelled elevation of 192 m. Mounded Landfill stands 259 m to the southwest, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Cernan Park, a park 0.4 miles away. Historic Route 66 passes 4.3 miles off. 20 named summits stand within 25 miles.
How to reach it
- 4.3 mi off the Historic Route 66, National
- 21.9 mi off the Lincoln Highway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Des Plaines River · 6 mi
- Fabyan Windmill · 22 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Cernan Park: 0.4 mi
- Norfolk Park: 0.4 mi
- Drury Lane Park: 0.7 mi
- Beach Street Broadview Media Staging Area: 0.7 mi
- Beach Street Broadview Media Staging Area: 0.7 mi
- Kiwanis Club of Westchester: 0.9 mi
- The Chase Rock: 1.1 mi
- Kiddieland: 2.3 mi
- Veteran Memorial: 2.7 mi
- Underground Railroad Memorial: 2.8 mi
- Westchester Woods Picnic Grove 1: 1.3 mi
- Brezina Woods Picnic Shelter Grove 3: 1.5 mi
- Brezina Woods Picnic Grove 1: 1.5 mi
- Brezina Woods Picnic Shelter Grove 2: 1.5 mi
- Little Broadview Bench: 1.9 mi
- Al Capone's Gravesite: 1.4 mi
- Bishop's Mausoleum: 1.4 mi
- Addax: 3.0 mi
- Saddle Billed Stork: 3.0 mi
- Red river hog: 3.0 mi
- Broadview Community Garden: 1.6 mi
- Sally Schulz Memorial Butterfly Garden: 1.6 mi
- Torin's: 3.1 mi
- Brookfield Library Pollinator Garden: 3.2 mi
- Family Garden: 3.4 mi
- George Dilboy Memorial Statue: 2.1 mi
- Fred Hampton: 2.6 mi
- Tree: 3.0 mi
- Elephant: 3.0 mi
- Tree: 3.1 mi
- Wolf Road Prairie Nature Preserve: 2.4 mi
- La Grange Park Woods: 2.4 mi
- Miller Meadow South: 2.4 mi
- Miller Meadow South: 2.5 mi
- Brookfield Woods Preserve: 2.6 mi
- Casa Italia: 2.4 mi
- La Grange Park Fire History Museum: 3.0 mi
- Hal Tyrrell Trailside Museum of Natural History: 3.3 mi
- 16 Inch Softball Hall of Fame Museum: 3.3 mi
- Brookfield Historical Society: 3.5 mi
- Westman Beach: 5.3 mi
- Humboldt Beach: 9.5 mi
- Oak Street Beach: 13.4 mi
- Ohio Street Beach: 13.8 mi
- 12th Street Beach: 14.0 mi
- Players Hill: 5.8 mi
- Hidden Hill: 6.1 mi
- Schiller Woods-East Sledding Hill: 6.5 mi
- Centennial Hill: 9.9 mi
- Spruce Hill: 11.0 mi
- Rosemont Waterfall: 8.7 mi
- Sawmill Creek Waterfall: 11.9 mi
- Canyon Creek Cascade: 13.7 mi
- Canyon Creek Falls: 13.7 mi
- Rain Garden Springs: 12.9 mi
- Lake Strini: 18.9 mi
- Swallow Cliffs: 12.9 mi
- Chicago Southland Lincoln Oasis: 24.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Gladstone Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mounded Landfill | SW 228° | 259 m | 13.9 mi |
| Mount Hoy | W 262° | 255 m | 15.7 mi |
| Mount Trashmore | NE 39° | 204 m | 14.1 mi |
| Players Hill | E 83° | 187 m | 5.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:56 | 18:27 | 19:04 |
| June solstice | 05:17 | 19:49 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:40 | 18:14 | 18:51 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 15:39 | 16:24 |
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 | 25 | 29 | 39 | 50 | 61 | 71 | 75 | 74 | 66 | 54 | 41 | 31 |
| Precip in | 2.0 | 2.0 | 2.5 | 3.8 | 4.5 | 4.1 | 3.7 | 4.2 | 3.2 | 3.4 | 2.4 | 2.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Chicago Ohare Intl AP, 7 mi away.
- Eastern Gray Squirrel91 obs
- White-tailed Deer60 obs
- House Sparrow36 obs
- Northern Cardinal33 obs
- Red-bellied Woodpecker32 obs
- Eastern Chipmunk32 obs
- American Robin29 obs
- Downy Woodpecker29 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/173076064
Day trips start here
- Brookfield · 3 mi
- Oak Brook · 3 mi
- La Grange · 4 mi
- Western Springs · 4 mi
- Berwyn · 5 mi
- Hinsdale · 5 mi
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