Playtime Park
Playtime Park is a park in Illinois, at a recorded elevation of 183 m. Mount Trashmore stands 204 m to the southeast, 1.3 miles off. The nearest named place is Shawnee Park, a park 0.2 miles away. Historic Route 66 passes 11 miles off. 14 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 183 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- Skokie Park District
How to reach it
- 11.3 mi off the Historic Route 66, National
Overlooks nearby
- Des Plaines River · 19 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Shawnee Park: 0.2 mi
- Navajo Park: 0.2 mi
- Main - Hamlin Tennis Center: 0.3 mi
- Onöndowa’ga Park: 0.4 mi
- McNally Park: 0.4 mi
- Trunnion II: 0.6 mi
- La Souterraine: 0.6 mi
- Sculpture: 1.3 mi
- Cartwright Mound: 1.4 mi
- Sea of Ear: 2.2 mi
- Dr. Janusz Korczak: 0.7 mi
- Mahatma Gandhi: 0.8 mi
- Vietnam Veterans Memorial: 1.4 mi
- Sharp Corners: 1.5 mi
- Iraq & Afghanistan Veterans Memorial: 1.8 mi
- James Parks Gardens: 1.2 mi
- Eggleston Park Food Forest: 1.5 mi
- McCormick Gardens: 1.7 mi
- Twiggs Canal Gardens: 1.7 mi
- Skokie Community Garden: 1.8 mi
- Exploratorium: 1.4 mi
- Emily Oak Nature Center: 1.7 mi
- Evanston Ecology Center: 1.7 mi
- Gichigamiin Indigenous Nations Museum: 1.8 mi
- Skokie Heritage Museum: 1.9 mi
- Perkins Woods Forest Preserve: 1.6 mi
- Emily Oaks Nature Center: 1.6 mi
- Ladd Arboretum: 1.9 mi
- Calvin R. Sutker Grove: 2.4 mi
- Indian Boundary Nature Play Center: 2.4 mi
- Picnic: 1.7 mi
- Ackerman Park Picnic Tables: 1.9 mi
- Harms Woods Picnic Shelter Grove 1: 2.7 mi
- Harms Woods Picnic Shelter Grove 3: 2.8 mi
- Harms Woods Picnic Grove 2: 2.8 mi
- Dog Beach: 2.6 mi
- Clark Street Beach: 2.6 mi
- Greenwood Street Beach: 2.7 mi
- Lee Street Beach: 2.7 mi
- South Boulevard Beach: 2.9 mi
- Novelty Golf & Games: 2.8 mi
- Leaning Tower of Niles: 3.6 mi
- Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom: 5.8 mi
- Model Railroad Garden: 8.3 mi
- Biograph Theatre: 8.6 mi
- Mount Trashmore: 1.3 mi
- Horner Park Hill: 5.6 mi
- Centennial Hill: 6.8 mi
- Schiller Woods-East Sledding Hill: 8.4 mi
- Hidden Hill: 8.8 mi
- Rain Garden Springs: 3.9 mi
- Rosemont Waterfall: 7.8 mi
- Covington Bluff: 13.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Playtime Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Trashmore | SE 140° | 204 m | 1.3 mi |
| Players Hill | SSW 192° | 187 m | 11.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:55 | 18:26 | 19:03 |
| June solstice | 05:16 | 19:48 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:39 | 18:13 | 18:50 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 15:38 | 16:23 |
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 | 24 | 28 | 37 | 47 | 58 | 68 | 73 | 72 | 65 | 53 | 41 | 30 |
| Precip in | 2.1 | 2.0 | 2.3 | 4.0 | 4.8 | 4.3 | 3.7 | 4.2 | 3.6 | 3.6 | 2.6 | 2.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Chicago Botanic Garden, 8 mi away.
- Common Eastern Bumble Bee119 obs
- common milkweed108 obs
- Black Swallowtail99 obs
- Monarch98 obs
- Western Honey Bee96 obs
- prairie trillium77 obs
- star-flowered lily-of-the-valley73 obs
- Eastern Cottontail72 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/183521759
Day trips start here
- Chicago/Logan-Bucktown · 8 mi
- Chicago/Far West Side · 10 mi
- Chicago/Wicker Park · 10 mi
- Chicagoland · 10 mi
- Chicago/Near North · 11 mi
- Chicago · 12 mi
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