Watts Park
Watts Park is a park in Illinois, at a recorded elevation of 203 m. Leahy Hill stands 234 m to the north-northwest, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Vernon Playground Park, a park 0.1 miles away. Historic Route 66 passes 18 miles off. 11 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 203 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- Glencoe Park District
How to reach it
- 17.6 mi off the Historic Route 66, National
Overlooks nearby
- Des Plaines River · 24 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Vernon Playground Park: 0.1 mi
- Shelton Park: 0.3 mi
- Robert Everly Wildflower Sanctuary: 0.4 mi
- Woodlawn Park: 0.4 mi
- Glencoe Park: 0.5 mi
- Glencoe Community Garden: 0.3 mi
- Eklund Garden: 0.6 mi
- Mitsuzo and Kyoko Shida Evaluation Garden: 1.9 mi
- Kieunto Dry Garden: 2.1 mi
- Hilltop Garden: 2.2 mi
- Glencoe Historical Society: 0.6 mi
- Glencoe Historical Society: 0.7 mi
- Anita Willets Burnham Log House: 1.8 mi
- Winnetka Historical Society: 2.0 mi
- Wagner Farm Heritage Center: 3.3 mi
- Clara Dietz Bird Sanctuary: 0.6 mi
- Tower Road: 1.0 mi
- Forest Way Grove: 1.0 mi
- Tower Road Boat Launch: 1.2 mi
- Erickson Woods: 1.7 mi
- Glencoe Beach: 1.0 mi
- Tower Road Beach: 1.4 mi
- Maple Street Beach: 1.7 mi
- Cherry Street Beach: 2.3 mi
- Elder Lane Beach: 2.7 mi
- Forest Way Grove Picnic Shelter: 1.0 mi
- Erickson Woods Picnic Shelter Grove 1: 1.6 mi
- Turnbull Woods Picnic Shelter Grove 1: 1.9 mi
- Picnic Grove: 2.6 mi
- Blue Star Memorial Woods Picnic Shelter Grove 1: 3.5 mi
- Ravine Bluffs Street Markers: 1.2 mi
- Ravine Bluffs Street Markers: 1.4 mi
- Ravine Bluffs Street Markers: 1.4 mi
- The Rookery: 2.1 mi
- Stone Lantern: 2.1 mi
- Henry Demarest Lloyd: 1.4 mi
- Site of First Public School House in Winnetka: 1.9 mi
- Cenotaph: 1.9 mi
- 1965/7/25 MLK Visit: 2.0 mi
- Dixon Prairie: 2.1 mi
- Model Railroad Garden: 2.4 mi
- The Magic Rock: 4.8 mi
- Plant identification trail: 6.9 mi
- Sugar Shack: 7.0 mi
- Leaning Tower of Niles: 8.0 mi
- sled hill: 7.2 mi
- Mount Trashmore: 7.5 mi
- Centennial Hill: 9.4 mi
- Horner Park Hill: 11.9 mi
- Schiller Woods-East Sledding Hill: 12.5 mi
- Covington Bluff: 7.7 mi
- Rain Garden Springs: 10.2 mi
- Rosemont Waterfall: 10.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Watts Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leahy Hill | NNW 339° | 234 m | 22.2 mi |
| Mount Trashmore | SSE 160° | 204 m | 7.5 mi |
| Players Hill | S 182° | 187 m | 17.3 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 | 19:49 | 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, 2 mi away.
- Great Blue Heron111 obs
- White-tailed Deer93 obs
- Black-crowned Night Heron78 obs
- common buckthorn73 obs
- Dryad's Saddle73 obs
- American pokeweed67 obs
- American Robin61 obs
- common milkweed56 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/468928905
Day trips start here
- Chicago/Logan-Bucktown · 14 mi
- Chicago/Far West Side · 16 mi
- Chicago/Wicker Park · 16 mi
- Chicago/Near North · 17 mi
- Chicagoland · 17 mi
- Chicago · 18 mi
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