Jensen Park
Jensen Park is a park in Illinois, at a modelled elevation of 182 m. Mounded Landfill stands 259 m to the southwest, 25 miles off. The nearest named place is First Nations Community Garden, a garden 0.3 miles away. Historic Route 66 passes 6.6 miles off. 18 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Chicago Park District
How to reach it
- 6.6 mi off the Historic Route 66, National
Overlooks nearby
- Des Plaines River · 14 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- First Nations Community Garden: 0.3 mi
- La Guayabita Autonoma: 0.6 mi
- Turtle Park Community Garden: 0.8 mi
- NEIU Tennis Court Gardens: 0.8 mi
- Ke22-Gale Street Inn: 1.0 mi
- Spikings Farm Park: 0.4 mi
- Park No. 593: 0.6 mi
- Kiwanis Park: 0.7 mi
- Independence Park: 0.9 mi
- Ravenswood Manor Park: 1.0 mi
- Hope and Renewal: 0.5 mi
- Hope and Renewal: 0.5 mi
- Samuel Gompers Monument: 0.8 mi
- The Chicago Lincoln: 1.7 mi
- Lincoln Square Gateway: 1.7 mi
- National Cambodian Heritage Museum: 1.1 mi
- Irish American Heritage Center: 1.2 mi
- North Park Village Nature Center: 1.6 mi
- National Veterans Art Museum: 1.6 mi
- Edgewater Historical Society: 2.8 mi
- Iroquois Theatre Fire Memorial: 1.1 mi
- Governor Henry Horner Memorial: 1.2 mi
- The Shrine of Assyrian Patriarchs & Bishops: 1.2 mi
- Memorial of the Assyrian Martyrs: 1.2 mi
- Veterans Memorial: 1.3 mi
- Irene C. Hernandez Picnic Shelter Grove 1: 1.2 mi
- Horner Picnic Grove: 1.2 mi
- Horner Picnic Grove: 1.3 mi
- Peterson Picnic Area: 1.5 mi
- La Bagh Woods Picnic Shelter Grove 1: 1.6 mi
- Novelty Golf & Games: 2.2 mi
- Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom: 3.2 mi
- Biograph Theatre: 4.6 mi
- Leaning Tower of Niles: 4.6 mi
- Eastern Black Rhinoceros: 5.3 mi
- Ardmore Hollywood (Osterman) Beach: 3.8 mi
- Thorndale Avenue Beach: 3.8 mi
- Glenlake Avenue Beach: 3.9 mi
- Montrose Dog Beach: 4.0 mi
- Rosemont Avenue Beach: 4.0 mi
- Horner Park Hill: 1.3 mi
- Mount Trashmore: 4.1 mi
- Schiller Woods-East Sledding Hill: 6.2 mi
- Hidden Hill: 6.4 mi
- Players Hill: 6.7 mi
- Rosemont Waterfall: 7.3 mi
- Sawmill Creek Waterfall: 21.9 mi
- Canyon Creek Cascade: 23.9 mi
- Canyon Creek Falls: 23.9 mi
- Covington Bluff: 18.7 mi
- Swallow Cliffs: 21.1 mi
- Rain Garden Springs: 2.2 mi
- Tedens: 22.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Jensen Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mounded Landfill | SW 229° | 259 m | 24.5 mi |
| Mount Trashmore | NNE 11° | 204 m | 4.1 mi |
| Players Hill | SSW 201° | 187 m | 6.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:55 | 18:26 | 19:03 |
| June solstice | 05:16 | 19:48 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:39 | 18:13 | 18:50 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 15:38 | 16:23 |
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 | 26 | 29 | 38 | 48 | 58 | 68 | 74 | 74 | 67 | 54 | 43 | 31 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Chicago Northerly IS, 10 mi away.
- White-tailed Deer562 obs
- American Robin502 obs
- Great Blue Heron453 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel448 obs
- Black-crowned Night Heron427 obs
- Mallard401 obs
- Monarch348 obs
- Black Swallowtail342 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/145592982
Day trips start here
- Chicago/Logan-Bucktown · 3 mi
- Chicago/Far West Side · 5 mi
- Chicago/Wicker Park · 5 mi
- Chicagoland · 6 mi
- Chicago/Loop · 7 mi
- Chicago/Near North · 7 mi
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