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Willow Park

Willow Park from directly overhead

Willow Park is a park in Illinois, at a modelled elevation of 193 m. Mounded Landfill stands 259 m to the south-southwest, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Menominee Park, a park 0.2 miles away. Historic Route 66 passes 16 miles off. 19 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What to expect

Operated by
Des Plaines Park District

Official site

How to reach it

Coordinates42.04879, -87.89124

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Menominee Park: 0.2 mi
  • Sesquicentennial Park: 0.5 mi
  • South Golf Cul de Sac Park: 0.6 mi
  • Potawatomie Park: 0.6 mi
  • James Paroubek Park: 0.6 mi
Picnic sites
Museums
Historic sites
Attractions
Artworks
  • Statue of Liberty: 2.1 mi
  • Wing: 2.7 mi
  • Undercover History: 3.8 mi
  • Donald E. Stephens: 3.9 mi
  • Glenview Bear: 4.7 mi
Gardens
Beaches
Peaks: 19
  • Centennial Hill: 3.6 mi
  • Schiller Woods-East Sledding Hill: 6.9 mi
  • Hidden Hill: 7.2 mi
  • Mount Trashmore: 9.7 mi
  • sled hill: 11.5 mi
Waterfalls: 2
Lighthouses: 2
Ghost towns: 2
Springs: 1
  • Rain Garden Springs: 11.2 mi
Cliffs: 1

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mounded LandfillSSW 204°259 m24.0 mi
Mount HoySW 225°255 m21.1 mi
Mount TrashmoreE 100°204 m9.7 mi
Players HillSSE 152°187 m13.5 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 solstice07:1715:3816:24

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, 5 mi away.

  • Black Swallowtail40 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee35 obs
  • Western Honey Bee33 obs
  • Monarch33 obs
  • Two-spotted Bumble Bee33 obs
  • Common Watersnake22 obs
  • common milkweed21 obs
  • Virginia Springbeauty20 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 site

OpenStreetMap element way/42310495

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