Santa Fe Park
Santa Fe Park is a park in Illinois, at a modelled elevation of 158 m. Nichols Mound stands 205 m to the southeast, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Santa Fe Train Mural, a historic site less than a tenth of a mile away. Illinois River Road passes 0.3 miles off. 2 named summits stand within 25 miles.
How to reach it
- 0.3 mi off the Illinois River Road, National
- 38.4 mi off the Historic Route 66, National
- 63.4 mi off the Great River Road, National
Overlooks nearby
- Fondulac Drive Lookout 1 · 18 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- R. Paul Gollnitze City Park: 0.3 mi
- City Park: 0.6 mi
- Moffitt Nature Park: 0.8 mi
- Cutright Community Park: 0.8 mi
- Shore Acres Park: 1.4 mi
- Dr. Frank & Aagot Green Wildlife Sanctuary: 2.2 mi
- Coal Hollow Park: 2.2 mi
- Messerling Wildlife Preserve: 3.0 mi
- Shawl Wildlife Preserve: 4.2 mi
- Young Wildlife Preserve: 4.8 mi
- Hopewell Peter Toth sculpture: 5.1 mi
- Changes: 10.0 mi
- Out of Court: 11.5 mi
- Sweet Like Lemonade: 12.6 mi
- Here and There: 12.6 mi
- Santa Fe Train Mural: 0.0 mi
- Veterans Memorial Park: 0.3 mi
- Lacroix Rock: 10.4 mi
- Gold Star Memorial: 13.0 mi
- Ironworkers Memorial: 14.1 mi
- Rock Island Depot Museum: 0.5 mi
- Chillicothe Area History Museum: 0.6 mi
- Hasselberg Ag Museum: 2.2 mi
- Wheels O' Time Museum: 9.0 mi
- Illinois Mennonite Heritage Center: 11.0 mi
- The Marble Garden: 1.1 mi
- ICC Horticulture Garden: 14.8 mi
- Luthy Botanical Garden: 14.8 mi
- Dayspring Community Park 4-H Community Garden: 16.2 mi
- Skip Snyder Garden: 17.0 mi
- Luthy Botanical Gardens greenhouse: 14.8 mi
- The Doug Oberhelman Caterpillar Visitors Center: 16.9 mi
- Lake WIldwood Beach 2: 14.8 mi
- Lake Wildwood Beach 1: 15.0 mi
- Hazel's Hill: 18.8 mi
- Nichols Mound: 24.1 mi
- Walnut Grove: 7.7 mi
- High Point: 11.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Santa Fe Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nichols Mound | SE 145° | 205 m | 24.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:02 | 18:34 | 19:10 |
| June solstice | 05:27 | 19:53 | 20:34 |
| September equinox | 06:46 | 18:21 | 18:57 |
| December solstice | 07:20 | 15:50 | 16:34 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 26 | 30 | 41 | 53 | 63 | 73 | 76 | 74 | 67 | 55 | 42 | 31 |
| Precip in | 2.1 | 2.1 | 2.6 | 4.0 | 4.8 | 4.3 | 4.0 | 3.3 | 3.3 | 3.2 | 2.6 | 2.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Lacon, 8 mi away.
- Yellow-rumped Warbler63 obs
- Common Eastern Bumble Bee60 obs
- Silver-spotted Skipper57 obs
- Ring-billed Gull49 obs
- Baltimore Oriole36 obs
- Indigo Bunting34 obs
- American Robin33 obs
- Brown-belted Bumble Bee32 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/201715383
Day trips start here
- Bradford · 19 mi
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