Kirk Park
Kirk Park is a park in Illinois, at a modelled elevation of 199 m. Gander Mountain stands 283 m to the west-northwest, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Roosevelt Park, a park 0.3 miles away. 8 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Waukegan Park District
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Roosevelt Park: 0.3 mi
- Plonien Park: 0.3 mi
- Washington Park: 0.4 mi
- Besley Park: 0.4 mi
- Bedrosian Park: 0.5 mi
- Edison Court Station on the North Shore Line: 0.4 mi
- Veterans Memorial Plaza: 0.4 mi
- Ray Bradbury: 0.5 mi
- Soldiers and Sailors Monument: 0.6 mi
- Amos Bennett: First African American Settler in Lake County: 4.2 mi
- Abraham Lincoln: 0.6 mi
- Finger Sculpture: 0.6 mi
- Traveler: 0.7 mi
- Jack Benny Monument: 0.8 mi
- Round Entry Door: 10.0 mi
- Lyons Woods Forest Preserve: 3.2 mi
- Illinois Beach Nature Preserve: 4.0 mi
- Lake Carina Forest Preserve: 4.1 mi
- Lake Carina Forest Preserve: 4.6 mi
- Prairie Preserve on Belle Foret Drive: 4.7 mi
- F-14 Tomcat: 3.3 mi
- Goliath: 4.6 mi
- Sprocket Rockets: 4.6 mi
- Fiddler's Fling: 4.7 mi
- ZoomJets: 4.7 mi
- Picnic Grove: 4.7 mi
- Sun Garden: 11.6 mi
- The Buttery: 11.6 mi
- Fairie Glen: 11.6 mi
- Cotswold Commons: 11.7 mi
- Waukegan History Museum at the Carnegie: 0.7 mi
- The African American Museum at the England Manor: 1.1 mi
- Waukegan History Museum: 2.3 mi
- National Museum of the American Sailor: 2.9 mi
- Legacy Museum: 4.9 mi
- Waukegan Municipal Beach: 1.4 mi
- Waukegan Beach: 1.7 mi
- Sunrise Beach: 5.3 mi
- Illinois Beach State Park: 5.6 mi
- Independence Grove Beach: 6.2 mi
- Bowen Formal Garden: 2.3 mi
- Ed, Olga and JJ Rogan Tribute Garden: 6.4 mi
- Elawa Farm: 7.0 mi
- McClure Rain Garden: 7.2 mi
- Revery Prairie: 7.3 mi
- Leahy Hill: 6.1 mi
- sled hill: 9.9 mi
- Bald Knob: 18.8 mi
- Gander Mountain: 20.3 mi
- Mount Trashmore: 23.9 mi
- Light 2: 3.5 mi
- Light 1: 3.5 mi
- Kenosha North Pierhead Light: 16.3 mi
- Kenosha Light: 16.3 mi
- Covington Bluff: 8.8 mi
- Kenosha Rest Area 26 (I-94 WB): 12.8 mi
- Aurora: 15.9 mi
- Indian Spring: 20.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Kirk Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gander Mountain | WNW 298° | 283 m | 20.3 mi |
| Hill Fifteen | WNW 288° | 276 m | 24.1 mi |
| Mount Moriah | WNW 298° | 257 m | 24.5 mi |
| Bald Knob | W 277° | 235 m | 18.8 mi |
| Leahy Hill | NW 324° | 234 m | 6.1 mi |
| Mount Trashmore | SSE 163° | 204 m | 23.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:56 | 18:27 | 19:04 |
| June solstice | 05:15 | 19:50 | 20:32 |
| September equinox | 06:39 | 18:13 | 18:50 |
| December solstice | 07:18 | 15:37 | 16:22 |
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 | 26 | 36 | 45 | 57 | 67 | 72 | 71 | 64 | 52 | 40 | 29 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Waukegan, 2 mi away.
- American Herring Gull534 obs
- Ring-billed Gull424 obs
- Double-crested Cormorant146 obs
- Sanderling117 obs
- Mallard117 obs
- Red-breasted Merganser99 obs
- Canada Goose90 obs
- Common Goldeneye54 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/174248316
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