Needles Park
Needles Park is a park in Illinois, at a recorded elevation of 179 m. Mount Lieber stands 214 m to the east, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is Kandy Kane Park, a park 0.6 miles away. Lincoln Highway passes 9.5 miles off. 22 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 179 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- Dolton Park District
How to reach it
- 9.5 mi off the Lincoln Highway, National
- 16.3 mi off the Historic Route 66, National
Overlooks nearby
- Des Plaines River · 16 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Kandy Kane Park: 0.6 mi
- Blackstone Park: 0.7 mi
- Downey Park: 1.0 mi
- Dolton Park: 1.0 mi
- Sunshine Park: 1.1 mi
- Beaubien Woods Picnic Shelter Grove 1: 0.9 mi
- Green Lake Woods Picnic Grove 1: 2.7 mi
- Green Lake Woods Picnic Grove 2: 2.8 mi
- Green Lake Woods Picnic Grove 3: 2.8 mi
- Whistler Woods Picnic Grove 1: 2.8 mi
- Former Lincoln School Entrance: 0.9 mi
- Ton Farm Underground Railroad Site: 1.3 mi
- Altgeld Gardens Memorial Wall: 1.4 mi
- Riverdale Veterans Memorial: 2.1 mi
- Hegewisch Veterans Memorial: 2.3 mi
- Prairie Boat: 0.9 mi
- Marshall Major Taylor: 2.6 mi
- Marshall Major Taylor: 4.9 mi
- United We Stand: 5.2 mi
- Pride Of East Side: 5.9 mi
- Calumet City (Pink Smiley Face) Water Tower: 1.2 mi
- Calumet City (Yellow Smiley Face) Water Tower: 3.5 mi
- Homewood Railroad Viewing Platform: 6.8 mi
- Peteyville Christmas Lights: 7.3 mi
- Michelle Obama's Childhood Home: 8.4 mi
- Altgeld Gardens Community Farm: 1.2 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 2.5 mi
- HAST Garden: 3.6 mi
- City Hall Rose Garden: 4.7 mi
- Formal Garden: 6.2 mi
- Hegewisch Marsh: 1.6 mi
- Burnham Prairie: 2.0 mi
- Calumet City Prairie Nature Preserve: 2.3 mi
- Sand Ridge Nature Preserve: 2.5 mi
- Wentworth Prairie: 2.6 mi
- Sand Ridge Nature Center: 2.5 mi
- Ford Calumet Environmental Center (FCEC): 3.4 mi
- Calumet City Historical Society: 3.5 mi
- Historic Pullman Foundation Exhibit Hall: 3.8 mi
- A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum: 4.7 mi
- Whihala Park West Beach: 5.7 mi
- Hammond Marina Beach: 5.7 mi
- Whihala Beach: 5.8 mi
- Munson Beach: 5.9 mi
- Calumet Beach: 6.1 mi
- Belly Button Hill: 7.4 mi
- Sledding Hill: 9.2 mi
- Arbor Hill: 9.5 mi
- Obama Center Sled Hill: 10.1 mi
- Sled Hill: 13.1 mi
- Chicago Southland Lincoln Oasis: 4.1 mi
- Prairie View Rest Area - Southbound: 19.6 mi
- Prairie View Rest Area - Northbound: 19.6 mi
- Sawmill Creek Waterfall: 20.0 mi
- Canyon Creek Cascade: 21.7 mi
- Canyon Creek Falls: 21.7 mi
- Swallow Cliffs: 14.5 mi
- Tedens: 20.2 mi
- Rain Garden Springs: 24.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Needles Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Lieber | E 95° | 214 m | 18.1 mi |
| Chanute Hill | E 95° | 195 m | 16.7 mi |
| Players Hill | NNW 331° | 187 m | 18.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:55 | 18:26 | 19:03 |
| June solstice | 05:17 | 19:47 | 20:29 |
| September equinox | 06:38 | 18:13 | 18:49 |
| December solstice | 07:15 | 15:39 | 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, 11 mi away.
- Bald Eagle63 obs
- Red-tailed Hawk61 obs
- American Herring Gull50 obs
- Great Egret44 obs
- Painted Turtle35 obs
- Monarch34 obs
- Great Blue Heron28 obs
- Mute Swan28 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/176597469
Day trips start here
- Chicago/Far Southeast Side · 3 mi
- Harvey · 4 mi
- Blue Island · 5 mi
- Hammond · 5 mi
- Lansing · 5 mi
- Chicago/Far Southwest Side · 7 mi
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