Glendale Park
Glendale Park is a park in Indiana, at a recorded elevation of 183 m. Mount Lieber stands 214 m to the east, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Wentworth Woods, a nature reserve 0.3 miles away. Lincoln Highway passes 7.4 miles off. 31 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 183 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- Hammond Parks & Recreation
How to reach it
- 7.4 mi off the Lincoln Highway, National
- 19.7 mi off the Historic Route 66, National
- 7.4 mi off the The Indiana Lincoln Highway Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Des Plaines River · 20 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Wentworth Woods: 0.3 mi
- Wentworth Prairie: 1.6 mi
- Sand Ridge Nature Preserve: 1.7 mi
- Camp Shabbona Woods: 1.9 mi
- Calumet City Prairie Nature Preserve: 2.2 mi
- Benjamin Harrison: 0.4 mi
- Small Stone Henge Monument: 0.8 mi
- Casimir Pulaski: 1.0 mi
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: 1.0 mi
- Lincoln Funeral Train Historic Marker: 1.4 mi
- Harrison Park: 0.4 mi
- Triangle Parkway: 0.5 mi
- Conkey Park: 0.7 mi
- Indi-Illi Park: 0.8 mi
- Finneran Park: 0.9 mi
- Calumet City Historical Society: 0.8 mi
- Sand Ridge Nature Center: 2.2 mi
- Schrage Mansion: 5.5 mi
- Mascot Hall of Fame: 5.7 mi
- Ford Calumet Environmental Center (FCEC): 6.3 mi
- City Hall Rose Garden: 0.8 mi
- HAST Garden: 1.1 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 2.2 mi
- Altgeld Gardens Community Farm: 5.1 mi
- Memorial Garden: 5.7 mi
- Calumet City (Yellow Smiley Face) Water Tower: 1.5 mi
- Calumet City (Pink Smiley Face) Water Tower: 3.0 mi
- Peteyville Christmas Lights: 3.5 mi
- Homewood Railroad Viewing Platform: 8.0 mi
- Genesis Convention Center: 9.5 mi
- Green Lake Woods Picnic Grove 4: 1.7 mi
- Green Lake Woods Picnic Grove 3: 1.7 mi
- Green Lake Woods Picnic Grove 2: 1.8 mi
- Green Lake Woods Picnic Grove 1: 1.8 mi
- Lansing Woods Picnic Grove 2: 3.4 mi
- United We Stand: 2.6 mi
- Flick Statue: 3.8 mi
- Prairie Boat: 4.9 mi
- Marshall Major Taylor: 6.8 mi
- Pride Of East Side: 7.7 mi
- Jeorse Park Beach: 5.7 mi
- Buffington Harbor Beach: 5.9 mi
- Whihala Beach: 6.0 mi
- Whihala Park West Beach: 6.2 mi
- Hammond Marina Beach: 6.8 mi
- Arbor Hill: 5.4 mi
- Sledding Hill: 5.9 mi
- Sled Hill: 9.0 mi
- Belly Button Hill: 10.7 mi
- Obama Center Sled Hill: 13.0 mi
- Chicago Southland Lincoln Oasis: 4.3 mi
- Prairie View Rest Area - Southbound: 19.5 mi
- Prairie View Rest Area - Northbound: 19.6 mi
- Swallow Cliffs: 18.4 mi
- Sawmill Creek Waterfall: 23.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Glendale Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Lieber | E 86° | 214 m | 14.8 mi |
| Chanute Hill | E 85° | 195 m | 13.3 mi |
| Mount Holden | E 80° | 194 m | 24.7 mi |
| Mount Tom | E 80° | 193 m | 24.5 mi |
| Mount Jackson | E 80° | 192 m | 24.8 mi |
| Players Hill | NNW 326° | 187 m | 22.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:54 | 18:26 | 19:02 |
| June solstice | 05:17 | 19:46 | 20:28 |
| September equinox | 06:38 | 18:13 | 18:49 |
| December solstice | 07:14 | 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 | 23 | 27 | 37 | 49 | 60 | 70 | 74 | 72 | 65 | 53 | 40 | 29 |
| Precip in | 2.5 | 2.1 | 2.6 | 4.0 | 4.6 | 4.9 | 4.7 | 4.0 | 3.4 | 3.6 | 3.0 | 2.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Park Forest, 11 mi away.
- common bracken31 obs
- azure bluet31 obs
- American Royal Fern31 obs
- yellow star grass27 obs
- Canada mayflower25 obs
- sensitive fern25 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel19 obs
- Canadian lousewort18 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/135920661
Day trips start here
- Hammond · 2 mi
- Lansing · 3 mi
- East Chicago · 4 mi
- Munster · 4 mi
- Chicago/Far Southeast Side · 6 mi
- Dyer · 7 mi
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