Keys Park
Keys Park is a park in Illinois, at a modelled elevation of 141 m. Swallow Rock stands 198 m to the south-southwest, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Dutch Hill, a peak 8.3 miles away. Great River Road passes 21 miles off. 15 named summits stand within 25 miles.
How to reach it
- 21.3 mi off the Great River Road, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Pinckneyville Park: 9.6 mi
- Pinckneyville Park: 9.7 mi
- American Legion Park: 10.6 mi
- Totland Park: 10.9 mi
- Miners Park: 11.3 mi
- Flat Rock: 10.2 mi
- Hidden Cove: 10.6 mi
- Redbud: 10.6 mi
- Dogwood: 10.6 mi
- Twin Logs: 10.7 mi
- Statue of Custard Stand: 11.3 mi
- gym: 18.8 mi
- ps: 18.8 mi
- k: 21.0 mi
- Dragon: 22.8 mi
- Miner Memorial: 11.3 mi
- Veterans Memorial: 13.5 mi
- Veterans Memorial: 13.5 mi
- Old Train Depot: 13.5 mi
- Veterans Memorial: 13.6 mi
- Dutch Hill: 8.3 mi
- Moores Hill: 10.1 mi
- Grammer Hill: 12.4 mi
- Turkey Knob: 12.8 mi
- Sugar Hill: 13.4 mi
- Burning Star State Fish and Wildlife Area: 10.5 mi
- Lake Murphysboro State Park: 17.7 mi
- Johnson Creek Recreation Area: 19.1 mi
- Rend Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area: 19.3 mi
- Chautauqua Bottoms: 20.3 mi
- Illinois Rural Heritage Museum: 9.7 mi
- Franklin County 1910's Garage Museum: 17.3 mi
- Carterville Heritage Museum: 19.5 mi
- African American Museum of Southern Illinois: 19.8 mi
- The Carbondale Depot Museum: 19.9 mi
- Bluebell Bluff: 16.3 mi
- Abneyville Rock: 22.1 mi
- Shelter Bluff: 23.1 mi
- Shelter Bluff: 23.3 mi
- Chalk Bluff: 24.7 mi
- Flyover Public Garden: 19.7 mi
- Kaity's Garden: 19.9 mi
- Heritage Garden: 20.2 mi
- Kumakura Garden: 20.5 mi
- Student Center Garden: 20.8 mi
- Mystic Willow: 13.5 mi
- ps: 18.2 mi
- ps: 18.9 mi
- ps: 18.9 mi
- Rend Lake Rest Area - Northbound: 17.1 mi
- Rend Lake Rest Area (I57-SB): 18.5 mi
- Brownsville: 18.5 mi
- Halfway: 22.5 mi
- Kinkaid Lake Spillway Falls: 20.1 mi
- Falls-Shelter Bluff: 23.2 mi
- North Marcum Beach: 15.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Keys Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Swallow Rock | SSW 202° | 198 m | 24.0 mi |
| Sugar Hill | WSW 247° | 177 m | 13.4 mi |
| Tater Hill | WSW 249° | 174 m | 13.7 mi |
| Grammer Hill | E 82° | 168 m | 12.4 mi |
| Moores Hill | ENE 63° | 163 m | 10.1 mi |
| McKinney Hill | SSE 165° | 157 m | 18.5 mi |
| Webbs Hill | E 80° | 152 m | 23.2 mi |
| The Pinnacle | NNE 16° | 150 m | 24.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:01 | 18:34 | 19:09 |
| June solstice | 05:35 | 19:44 | 20:24 |
| September equinox | 06:45 | 18:21 | 18:56 |
| December solstice | 07:10 | 16:00 | 16:41 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 32 | 37 | 46 | 57 | 66 | 74 | 77 | 76 | 68 | 58 | 45 | 36 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 2.9 | 4.4 | 5.4 | 5.5 | 4.8 | 3.9 | 3.3 | 3.4 | 3.7 | 4.1 | 3.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — DU Quoin 4 SE, 3 mi away.
- purple passionflower3 obs
- Common Buckeye2 obs
- American pokeweed2 obs
- Fowler's Toad2 obs
- Green Cone-headed Planthopper2 obs
- Illinois bundleflower2 obs
- mock strawberry2 obs
- Wild Turkey1 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/546454649
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