Thomas Eddy Tallmadge Park
Thomas Eddy Tallmadge Park is a park in Illinois, at a recorded elevation of 186 m. Mount Trashmore stands 204 m to the south-southwest, 2.7 miles off. The nearest named place is Fullerton Park, a park 0.2 miles away. Historic Route 66 passes 12 miles off. 11 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 186 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- Evanston Parks & Recreation
How to reach it
- 12.5 mi off the Historic Route 66, National
Overlooks nearby
- Des Plaines River · 21 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Fullerton Park: 0.2 mi
- Leahy Park: 0.2 mi
- Philbrick Park: 0.2 mi
- Ingraham Park: 0.3 mi
- Chandler Park: 0.3 mi
- Shakespeare Garden: 0.5 mi
- Twiggs Canal Gardens: 0.8 mi
- McCormick Gardens: 0.9 mi
- Eggleston Park Food Forest: 1.0 mi
- Merrick Rose Garden: 1.1 mi
- North Beach: 0.6 mi
- Clark Street Beach: 0.9 mi
- Dog Beach: 1.0 mi
- Aquatics Beach: 1.3 mi
- Greenwood Street Beach: 1.4 mi
- Weber Arch: 0.7 mi
- Veterans Memorial Wall: 0.9 mi
- Antoine Ouilmette: 1.5 mi
- Mahatma Gandhi: 1.7 mi
- Dr. Janusz Korczak: 2.0 mi
- Ladd Arboretum: 0.7 mi
- Clark Street Beach Bird Sanctuary: 0.9 mi
- Perkins Woods Forest Preserve: 1.4 mi
- Elmwood Dunes Preserve: 1.7 mi
- Indian Boundary Nature Play Center: 3.4 mi
- Small Twist II, 1978: 0.7 mi
- Interior Form, 1981: 0.7 mi
- Resting Leaf, 1959: 0.7 mi
- Two Forms (Divided Circle), 1969: 0.7 mi
- Curved Form, 1961: 0.7 mi
- Evanston Ecology Center: 0.9 mi
- Evanston History Center: 1.3 mi
- Gichigamiin Indigenous Nations Museum: 1.8 mi
- Wilmette Historical Museum: 2.3 mi
- Kenilworth Historical Society: 2.5 mi
- Ackerman Park Picnic Tables: 1.2 mi
- Picnic: 2.0 mi
- Harms Woods Picnic Shelter Grove 1: 4.4 mi
- Harms Woods Picnic Shelter Grove 3: 4.4 mi
- Harms Woods Picnic Grove 6: 4.4 mi
- Novelty Golf & Games: 4.7 mi
- Leaning Tower of Niles: 6.1 mi
- Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom: 6.4 mi
- Model Railroad Garden: 8.2 mi
- Biograph Theatre: 9.4 mi
- Mount Trashmore: 2.7 mi
- Horner Park Hill: 6.9 mi
- Centennial Hill: 9.1 mi
- Schiller Woods-East Sledding Hill: 10.8 mi
- Hidden Hill: 11.2 mi
- Rain Garden Springs: 5.0 mi
- Rosemont Waterfall: 10.2 mi
- Covington Bluff: 13.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Thomas Eddy Tallmadge Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Trashmore | SSW 204° | 204 m | 2.7 mi |
| Players Hill | SSW 199° | 187 m | 13.4 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 | 07:16 | 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.
- Eastern Cottontail272 obs
- Red-winged Blackbird210 obs
- common milkweed172 obs
- Monarch163 obs
- American Robin161 obs
- Canada Goose136 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel130 obs
- Mallard128 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/162474157
Day trips start here
- Chicago/Logan-Bucktown · 9 mi
- Chicago/Near North · 11 mi
- Chicago/Wicker Park · 11 mi
- Chicagoland · 11 mi
- Chicago/Far West Side · 12 mi
- Chicago/Loop · 12 mi
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