Petrarca Park
Petrarca Park is a park in Illinois, at a recorded elevation of 210 m. Mount Lieber stands 214 m to the east-northeast, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Jirtle Park, a park 0.3 miles away. Lincoln Highway passes 0.5 miles off. 17 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 210 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- Chicago Heights Park District
How to reach it
- 0.5 mi off the Lincoln Highway, National
- 23.1 mi off the Historic Route 66, National
- 5.4 mi off the The Indiana Lincoln Highway Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Des Plaines River · 22 mi
- Viewing area · 27 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Jirtle Park: 0.3 mi
- Jackson Park: 0.6 mi
- Jones Center Family Play Lot: 0.6 mi
- Seiter Park: 0.7 mi
- King Park: 0.8 mi
- Arche Fountain: 0.9 mi
- Lincoln on the Road to Greatness: 0.9 mi
- Illinois Landscape N 5: 5.4 mi
- Windwaves: 5.4 mi
- Bodark Arc: 5.4 mi
- Chicago Heights Veterans' Memorial: 1.0 mi
- Steger Veteran's Memorial: 1.9 mi
- Indian & Pioneer Campground: 2.2 mi
- Camp Thornton: 4.5 mi
- Dixie Highway: 4.8 mi
- Woodrow Wilson Woods Picnic Shelter Grove 1: 1.0 mi
- Sauk Trial Woods Grove 1: 1.1 mi
- Sauk Trail Woods Grove 2: 1.1 mi
- Sauk Trail Woods Grove 3: 1.3 mi
- Sauk Trail Woods Grove 5: 1.4 mi
- Sauk Trail Woods: 1.1 mi
- Halsted Woods: 1.2 mi
- Joe Orr Woods: 1.4 mi
- King's Grove: 2.0 mi
- Glenwood Woods South: 3.0 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 8.3 mi
- City Hall Rose Garden: 9.9 mi
- HAST Garden: 10.1 mi
- Memorial Garden: 10.3 mi
- Altgeld Gardens Community Farm: 11.2 mi
- Sand Ridge Nature Center: 8.3 mi
- Old Zion Museum: 9.6 mi
- Calumet City Historical Society: 9.6 mi
- Robbins Illinois History Museum: 10.9 mi
- Ford Calumet Environmental Center (FCEC): 13.4 mi
- Ceadar Lake Beach: 13.8 mi
- Buffington Harbor Beach: 14.7 mi
- Jeorse Park Beach: 14.7 mi
- Whihala Beach: 14.9 mi
- Whihala Park West Beach: 15.0 mi
- Sledding Hill: 6.4 mi
- Big Hill: 6.5 mi
- Belly Button Hill: 10.0 mi
- Arbor Hill: 10.4 mi
- Sled Hill: 12.2 mi
- Chinese House of Park Forest: 3.1 mi
- Homewood Railroad Viewing Platform: 4.9 mi
- Calumet City (Yellow Smiley Face) Water Tower: 8.0 mi
- Calumet City (Pink Smiley Face) Water Tower: 9.9 mi
- The Grainery Building: 11.4 mi
- Chicago Southland Lincoln Oasis: 6.0 mi
- Prairie View Rest Area - Southbound: 10.4 mi
- Prairie View Rest Area - Northbound: 10.4 mi
- Sawmill Creek Waterfall: 22.6 mi
- Canyon Creek Falls: 23.5 mi
- Canyon Creek Cascade: 23.5 mi
- Swallow Cliffs: 17.6 mi
- Tedens: 22.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Petrarca Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Lieber | ENE 68° | 214 m | 21.9 mi |
| Chanute Hill | ENE 66° | 195 m | 20.6 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 | 07:14 | 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, 3 mi away.
- Virginia Springbeauty24 obs
- lesser celandine20 obs
- Wild Turkey18 obs
- cut-leaved toothwort12 obs
- white fawnlily11 obs
- rue anemone10 obs
- prairie trillium10 obs
- Asian Lady Beetle9 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/454595898
Day trips start here
- Chicago Heights · 1 mi
- Dyer · 6 mi
- South Suburbs · 6 mi
- Lansing · 7 mi
- Harvey · 8 mi
- Munster · 8 mi
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