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Meadows Park

Meadows Park from directly overhead

Meadows Park is a park in Illinois, at a modelled elevation of 207 m. Mounded Landfill stands 259 m to the south-southwest, 25 miles off. The nearest named place is Melas Park, a park 0.3 miles away. Historic Route 66 passes 19 miles off. 17 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What to expect

Operated by
Mount Prospect Park District

How to reach it

Coordinates42.07278, -87.95454

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Gardens
  • Maple Street Butterfly Waystation (#45081): 1.1 mi
  • Frontier Park Gardens: 3.5 mi
  • Illinois Heritage Grove: 6.1 mi
  • Bob Link Arboretum: 6.4 mi
  • Garden: 6.7 mi
Museums
Artworks
Attractions
Historic sites
Beaches
  • Whitney Shores Private Beach: 11.3 mi
  • Glencoe Beach: 11.5 mi
  • Rosewood Beach: 11.5 mi
  • Millard Beach: 11.6 mi
  • Millard Beach: 11.6 mi
Peaks: 17
  • Centennial Hill: 7.1 mi
  • Schiller Woods-East Sledding Hill: 9.9 mi
  • Hidden Hill: 10.2 mi
  • sled hill: 11.3 mi
  • Heritage Park Sled Hill: 11.8 mi
Lighthouses: 2
Waterfalls: 1
  • Rosemont Waterfall: 7.4 mi
Cliffs: 1
Springs: 1
  • Rain Garden Springs: 14.9 mi
Ghost towns: 1

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mounded LandfillSSW 195°259 m24.5 mi
Mount HoySW 215°255 m20.3 mi
Leahy HillN 5°234 m24.5 mi
Mount TrashmoreESE 105°204 m13.2 mi
Players HillSE 145°187 m16.7 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5618:2719:04
June solstice05:1719:4920:32
September equinox06:4018:1418:51
December solstice07:1815:3916:24

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F252938496070757366544130
Precip in1.31.31.83.33.84.03.23.73.03.12.11.6

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Chicago Palwaukee AP, 4 mi away.

  • Eastern Cottontail30 obs
  • Black Swallowtail25 obs
  • American pokeweed23 obs
  • Mourning Dove21 obs
  • American Robin21 obs
  • Monarch21 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee21 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel20 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/602814621

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