Lockwood Park
Lockwood Park is a park in Illinois, at a recorded elevation of 192 m. Mount Trashmore stands 204 m to the east-southeast, 2.9 miles off. The nearest named place is Gross Point Park, a park 0.3 miles away. Historic Route 66 passes 12 miles off. 15 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 192 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- Skokie Park District
How to reach it
- 12.0 mi off the Historic Route 66, National
- 30.0 mi off the Lincoln Highway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Des Plaines River · 19 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Gross Point Park: 0.3 mi
- Pawnee Park: 0.4 mi
- Carol Park: 0.5 mi
- Gross Point Park: 0.6 mi
- Lee Wright Park: 0.6 mi
- Skokie Community Garden: 0.5 mi
- James Parks Gardens: 2.9 mi
- Eggleston Park Food Forest: 3.0 mi
- West Fork Corridor Native Rain Garden: 3.0 mi
- Niles Community Rain Garden: 3.1 mi
- Iraq & Afghanistan Veterans Memorial: 0.8 mi
- World War II Memorial: 1.0 mi
- Holocaust Memorial: 1.0 mi
- Lincoln Arch: 1.2 mi
- Sharp Corners: 1.2 mi
- Skokie Heritage Museum: 0.9 mi
- Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center: 1.1 mi
- Exploratorium: 1.2 mi
- Emily Oak Nature Center: 1.4 mi
- Gichigamiin Indigenous Nations Museum: 2.6 mi
- Forest Preserve District of Cook County: 1.0 mi
- Calvin R. Sutker Grove: 1.1 mi
- Forest Preserve District of Cook County: 1.3 mi
- Harms Flatwoods Nature Preserve: 1.3 mi
- Harms Woods-South: 1.3 mi
- Statue of Liberty: 1.0 mi
- Viking: 1.3 mi
- Sculpture: 1.8 mi
- Cartwright Mound: 2.1 mi
- Trunnion II: 2.4 mi
- Leaning Tower of Niles: 2.4 mi
- Novelty Golf & Games: 3.5 mi
- Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom: 7.1 mi
- Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe: 7.3 mi
- Plant identification trail: 7.5 mi
- Clark Street Beach: 4.4 mi
- Dog Beach: 4.4 mi
- Langdon Park Beach: 4.4 mi
- Langdon Beach: 4.4 mi
- Kenilworth Beach: 4.5 mi
- Mount Trashmore: 2.9 mi
- Centennial Hill: 5.1 mi
- Horner Park Hill: 6.4 mi
- Schiller Woods-East Sledding Hill: 7.3 mi
- Hidden Hill: 7.7 mi
- Rain Garden Springs: 5.1 mi
- Rosemont Waterfall: 6.2 mi
- Covington Bluff: 13.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Lockwood Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Trashmore | ESE 114° | 204 m | 2.9 mi |
| Players Hill | S 183° | 187 m | 11.4 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 | 19:49 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:39 | 18:13 | 18:50 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 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 | 24 | 28 | 37 | 47 | 58 | 68 | 73 | 72 | 65 | 53 | 41 | 30 |
| Precip in | 2.1 | 2.0 | 2.3 | 4.0 | 4.8 | 4.3 | 3.7 | 4.2 | 3.6 | 3.6 | 2.6 | 2.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Chicago Botanic Garden, 7 mi away.
- lesser celandine221 obs
- White-tailed Deer176 obs
- prairie trillium158 obs
- large white trillium129 obs
- Virginia Springbeauty122 obs
- wild geranium112 obs
- mayapple91 obs
- Dryad's Saddle83 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/28755784
Day trips start here
- Chicago/Logan-Bucktown · 9 mi
- Chicago/Far West Side · 10 mi
- Chicago/Wicker Park · 10 mi
- Chicagoland · 11 mi
- Chicago/Near North · 12 mi
- Chicago · 13 mi
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