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Roth Park

Roth Park from directly overhead

Roth Park is a park in Illinois, at a recorded elevation of 202 m. Mount Hoy stands 255 m to the southwest, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Jaycee Park, a park 0.2 miles away. Historic Route 66 passes 19 miles off. 17 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What the record says

Elevation
202 m

What to expect

Operated by
Mount Prospect Park District

How to reach it

Coordinates42.09009, -87.93309

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Jaycee Park: 0.2 mi
  • East Wedgewood Park: 0.4 mi
  • Evergreen Trails Park: 0.4 mi
  • Lions Park: 0.6 mi
  • Isaak Walton Park: 0.6 mi
Gardens
  • Maple Street Butterfly Waystation (#45081): 1.5 mi
  • Frontier Park Gardens: 3.5 mi
  • Garden: 5.8 mi
  • West Fork Corridor Native Rain Garden: 6.9 mi
  • Illinois Heritage Grove: 7.7 mi
Museums
Artworks
Attractions
Historic sites
Beaches
  • Rosewood Beach: 10.0 mi
  • Millard Beach: 10.0 mi
  • Glencoe Beach: 10.0 mi
  • Millard Beach: 10.0 mi
  • Park Avenue Boating/Fishing Beach: 10.2 mi
Peaks: 17
  • Centennial Hill: 7.2 mi
  • sled hill: 9.7 mi
  • Schiller Woods-East Sledding Hill: 10.4 mi
  • Hidden Hill: 10.7 mi
  • Mount Trashmore: 12.5 mi
Lighthouses: 2
Waterfalls: 1
  • Rosemont Waterfall: 7.8 mi
Cliffs: 1
Springs: 1
  • Rain Garden Springs: 14.4 mi
Ghost towns: 1

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount HoySW 216°255 m21.9 mi
Bald KnobNW 326°235 m24.8 mi
Leahy HillN 3°234 m23.2 mi
Mount TrashmoreESE 111°204 m12.5 mi
Players HillSSE 150°187 m17.1 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 solstice07:1815:3816:24

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, 3 mi away.

  • Eastern Cottontail29 obs
  • Northern Cardinal27 obs
  • Mourning Dove24 obs
  • American pokeweed23 obs
  • American black elderberry23 obs
  • American Robin20 obs
  • Monarch20 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee20 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/187630644

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