Merchants Park
Merchants Park is a park in Illinois, at a recorded elevation of 200 m. Mounded Landfill stands 259 m to the west-northwest, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Millennium Park, a park 0.3 miles away. Lincoln Highway passes 3.4 miles off. 18 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 200 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- Homewood-Flossmoor Park District
How to reach it
- 3.4 mi off the Lincoln Highway, National
- 18.4 mi off the Historic Route 66, National
Overlooks nearby
- Des Plaines River · 18 mi
- Viewing area · 27 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Millennium Park: 0.3 mi
- Independence Park: 0.4 mi
- Richard D. Irwin Park: 0.6 mi
- Railroad Park: 0.6 mi
- Scandia Park: 0.6 mi
- Homewood Railroad Viewing Platform: 0.4 mi
- Chinese House of Park Forest: 3.6 mi
- Calumet City (Yellow Smiley Face) Water Tower: 6.7 mi
- Calumet City (Pink Smiley Face) Water Tower: 7.4 mi
- The Grainery Building: 10.1 mi
- Dixie Highway: 0.4 mi
- Camp Thornton: 3.7 mi
- Chicago Heights Veterans' Memorial: 3.7 mi
- Hoxie Farm / Wampum Lake: 4.1 mi
- Undergoroud Railroad Memorial: 4.7 mi
- Glenwood Woods North: 2.6 mi
- Willow Wood Park: 2.6 mi
- Glenwood Woods South: 2.9 mi
- Brownell Woods: 3.2 mi
- Joe Orr Woods: 3.4 mi
- Lincoln on the Road to Greatness: 3.8 mi
- Arche Fountain: 3.8 mi
- Marshall Major Taylor: 7.3 mi
- Bodark Arc: 7.5 mi
- Sisyphus’Aviary: 7.6 mi
- Old Zion Museum: 5.9 mi
- Robbins Illinois History Museum: 6.2 mi
- Sand Ridge Nature Center: 6.4 mi
- Calumet City Historical Society: 8.3 mi
- Historic Pullman Foundation Exhibit Hall: 9.9 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 6.5 mi
- Altgeld Gardens Community Farm: 8.0 mi
- HAST Garden: 8.7 mi
- City Hall Rose Garden: 9.1 mi
- Community Garden: 11.5 mi
- Whihala Park West Beach: 12.7 mi
- Whihala Beach: 12.8 mi
- Hammond Marina Beach: 12.8 mi
- Munson Beach: 13.0 mi
- Calumet Beach: 13.2 mi
- Belly Button Hill: 5.3 mi
- Sledding Hill: 8.7 mi
- Big Hill: 11.1 mi
- Arbor Hill: 11.7 mi
- Sled Hill: 14.5 mi
- Chicago Southland Lincoln Oasis: 4.0 mi
- Prairie View Rest Area - Southbound: 12.6 mi
- Prairie View Rest Area - Northbound: 12.6 mi
- Sawmill Creek Waterfall: 18.4 mi
- Canyon Creek Cascade: 19.5 mi
- Canyon Creek Falls: 19.5 mi
- Swallow Cliffs: 13.1 mi
- Tedens: 18.3 mi
- Lake Strini: 23.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Merchants Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mounded Landfill | WNW 300° | 259 m | 24.3 mi |
| Mount Lieber | E 79° | 214 m | 22.7 mi |
| Chanute Hill | ENE 78° | 195 m | 21.3 mi |
| Players Hill | NNW 347° | 187 m | 22.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:55 | 18:26 | 19:03 |
| June solstice | 05:18 | 19:47 | 20:29 |
| September equinox | 06:39 | 18:13 | 18:50 |
| December solstice | 07:15 | 15:40 | 16:24 |
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 | 27 | 37 | 49 | 60 | 70 | 74 | 72 | 65 | 53 | 40 | 29 |
| Precip in | 2.5 | 2.1 | 2.6 | 4.0 | 4.6 | 4.9 | 4.7 | 4.0 | 3.4 | 3.6 | 3.0 | 2.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Park Forest, 4 mi away.
- Mallard30 obs
- American jumpseed22 obs
- Monarch19 obs
- American Toad19 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel18 obs
- garlic mustard18 obs
- lesser celandine18 obs
- common milkweed17 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/660401488
Day trips start here
- Chicago Heights · 4 mi
- Harvey · 4 mi
- Oak Forest · 5 mi
- Lansing · 6 mi
- Midlothian · 6 mi
- South Suburbs · 6 mi
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