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Horan Park

Horan Park from directly overhead

Horan Park is a park in Illinois, at a recorded elevation of 181 m. Mounded Landfill stands 259 m to the west-southwest, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Park No. 422, a park 0.2 miles away. Historic Route 66 passes 1.1 miles off. 20 named summits stand within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
181 m
Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Chicago Park District

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates41.87546, -87.70381

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Gardens
  • Sunken Gardens: 0.5 mi
  • Water Courts Formal Garden: 0.8 mi
  • Music Court: 0.8 mi
  • Water Courts Formal Garden: 0.9 mi
  • Garfield Produce Co.: 1.0 mi
Historic sites
  • Norman Cornwall Memorial (WWI Obelisk): 0.6 mi
  • Vietnam Survivors Memorial: 1.1 mi
  • M3 Stuart Tank: 1.3 mi
  • Chicago Stadium: 1.6 mi
  • Louis Pasteur Monument: 1.6 mi
Attractions
Artworks
  • Lincoln the Rail-Splitter: 0.8 mi
  • Robert Burns Memorial: 0.8 mi
  • Idyl: 1.0 mi
  • Persian Lilies: 1.1 mi
  • Bulls with Maidens (World's Fair Bulls): 1.1 mi
Nature reserves
Museums
Picnic sites
  • Picnic Grove C: 4.5 mi
  • Picnic Grove B: 4.5 mi
  • Lincoln Park - Grove 5: 4.6 mi
  • Taylor Park Patio: 4.6 mi
  • Lincoln Park - Grove 2: 4.6 mi
Beaches: 58
Peaks: 20
  • Players Hill: 3.3 mi
  • Mount Bridgeport: 3.7 mi
  • Soldier Field Sledding Hill: 4.8 mi
  • Horner Park Hill: 5.8 mi
  • Obama Center Sled Hill: 8.8 mi
Waterfalls: 4
Cliffs: 2
Springs: 1
  • Rain Garden Springs: 7.8 mi
Ghost towns: 1
Rest areas: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mounded LandfillWSW 243°259 m21.7 mi
Mount HoyW 263°255 m24.7 mi
Mount TrashmoreN 359°204 m10.2 mi
Players HillW 270°187 m3.3 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5518:2619:03
June solstice05:1719:4820:30
September equinox06:3918:1318:50
December solstice07:1615:3816:23

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F262938485868747467544331

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Chicago Northerly IS, 5 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • American Robin86 obs
  • Piping Plover75 obs
  • Black Swallowtail72 obs
  • Monarch70 obs
  • common milkweed65 obs
  • Red Admiral55 obs
  • Canada Goose49 obs
  • Northern Cardinal49 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/136453624

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