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Marquette Park

Marquette Park from directly overhead

Marquette Park is a park in Indiana, at a recorded elevation of 181 m. Mount Lieber stands 214 m to the east-southeast, 0.7 miles off. The nearest named place is Southernmost Point of Lake Michigan, a historic site 0.2 miles away. The Indiana Lincoln Highway Byway passes 9.1 miles off. 47 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What the record says

Elevation
181 m

What to expect

Operated by
City of Gary

Official site

How to reach it

Coordinates41.61872, -87.25144

Named places within 25 miles

Historic sites
Artworks
  • Tuskegee Airmen: 0.3 mi
  • Octave Chanute: 0.3 mi
  • Father Marquette Monument: 0.5 mi
  • Mayor Richard G. Hatcher Monuument: 4.5 mi
  • Elbert H. Gary Monument: 4.5 mi
Parks
  • Indian Boundary Park: 0.5 mi
  • Knox Park: 1.1 mi
  • Gibson Fields: 1.5 mi
  • Nelson Algren Pocket Park: 1.5 mi
  • Sunrise Playground: 1.9 mi
Nature reserves
Picnic sites
Gardens: 54
  • Entrance Garden: 3.2 mi
  • Memorial Garden: 11.0 mi
  • Formal Garden: 12.9 mi
  • Welcome Garden: 13.0 mi
  • Hitz Family Rose Garden: 13.1 mi
Peaks: 47
  • Mount Lieber: 0.7 mi
  • Chanute Hill: 0.8 mi
  • Mount Chicago: 1.6 mi
  • Scallop Dune: 2.3 mi
  • Smoking Dune: 2.5 mi
Beaches: 41
  • Marquette Beach: 0.3 mi
  • East Shoreline: 0.8 mi
  • Lake Street Beach: 0.9 mi
  • West Beach: 2.1 mi
  • Ogden Dunes Beach: 3.0 mi
Attractions: 40
Lighthouses: 5
Rest areas: 2
Ghost towns: 1
Waterfalls: 1
  • 1 Foot Falls: 15.0 mi

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount LieberESE 108°214 m0.7 mi
Chanute HillW 265°195 m0.8 mi
Mount HoldenENE 73°194 m10.7 mi
Mount TomENE 73°193 m10.5 mi
Mount JacksonENE 74°192 m10.8 mi
Mount BaldyENE 70°185 m17.8 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5318:2519:01
June solstice05:1619:4520:27
September equinox06:3718:1118:48
December solstice07:1315:3816:22

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F252838485969737265544231
Precip in2.22.02.33.64.34.34.04.13.63.82.82.3

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Indiana Dunes NP, 9 mi away.

  • Sundial Lupine181 obs
  • hairy puccoon125 obs
  • Eastern Pricklypear119 obs
  • Canadian lousewort107 obs
  • bird's foot violet103 obs
  • Six-lined Racerunner101 obs
  • red columbine99 obs
  • star-flowered lily-of-the-valley98 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.

OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/431436730

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