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Greenview Park

Greenview Park from directly overhead

Greenview Park is a park in Illinois, at a modelled elevation of 200 m. Leahy Hill stands 234 m to the north, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Glenbrook North High School Prairie Nature Preserve, a nature reserve 0.2 miles away. Historic Route 66 passes 18 miles off. 14 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What to expect

Operated by
Northbrook Park District

How to reach it

Coordinates42.10903, -87.83993

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Willow Park: 0.5 mi
  • Jennings Park: 0.8 mi
  • Wescott Park: 0.8 mi
  • Floral Park: 0.9 mi
  • Hawthorne Glen Park: 0.9 mi
Historic sites
Attractions
Artworks
Gardens
  • West Fork Corridor Native Rain Garden: 3.3 mi
  • Community garden: 3.5 mi
  • Moraine Township Food Pantry Garden: 3.6 mi
  • Mitsuzo and Kyoko Shida Evaluation Garden: 3.6 mi
  • Hilltop Garden: 3.6 mi
Beaches: 60
  • Glencoe Beach: 5.1 mi
  • Rosewood Beach: 5.4 mi
  • Tower Road Beach: 5.6 mi
  • Maple Street Beach: 5.7 mi
  • Millard Beach: 5.8 mi
Peaks: 14
  • sled hill: 7.0 mi
  • Centennial Hill: 7.0 mi
  • Mount Trashmore: 9.1 mi
  • Schiller Woods-East Sledding Hill: 10.6 mi
  • Hidden Hill: 11.0 mi
Lighthouses: 2
Waterfalls: 1
  • Rosemont Waterfall: 8.2 mi
Cliffs: 1
Springs: 1
  • Rain Garden Springs: 11.4 mi

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Leahy HillN 351°234 m22.2 mi
Mount TrashmoreSE 131°204 m9.1 mi
Players HillSSE 167°187 m16.6 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5618:2719:04
June solstice05:1619:4920:32
September equinox06:3918:1418:50
December solstice07:1715:3816:23

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F252938496070757366544130
Precip in1.31.31.83.33.84.03.23.73.03.12.11.6

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Chicago Palwaukee AP, 3 mi away.

  • Killdeer75 obs
  • Red-winged Blackbird70 obs
  • Least Sandpiper68 obs
  • Mallard65 obs
  • Great Blue Heron57 obs
  • Canada Goose54 obs
  • Black-crowned Night Heron51 obs
  • Great Egret51 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/804707667

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