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Willow Park

Willow Park from directly overhead

Willow Park is a park in Illinois, at a modelled elevation of 191 m. Leahy Hill stands 234 m to the north-northwest, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Clarkson Park, a park 0.2 miles away. Historic Route 66 passes 16 miles off. 12 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What to expect

Operated by
Northfield Park District

Official site

How to reach it

Coordinates42.10301, -87.77827

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Gardens
  • Community garden: 1.4 mi
  • Glencoe Community Garden: 2.2 mi
  • Eklund Garden: 2.3 mi
  • West Fork Corridor Native Rain Garden: 2.4 mi
  • Mitsuzo and Kyoko Shida Evaluation Garden: 2.8 mi
Historic sites
Artworks
Beaches
Attractions
Peaks: 12
  • Mount Trashmore: 6.6 mi
  • Centennial Hill: 7.5 mi
  • sled hill: 8.0 mi
  • Schiller Woods-East Sledding Hill: 10.7 mi
  • Horner Park Hill: 10.8 mi
Lighthouses: 2
Waterfalls: 1
  • Rosemont Waterfall: 8.8 mi
Cliffs: 1
Springs: 1
  • Rain Garden Springs: 9.2 mi

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
Leahy HillNNW 343°234 m23.3 mi
Mount TrashmoreSE 146°204 m6.6 mi
Players HillS 178°187 m15.7 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5518:2719:03
June solstice05:1619:4920:31
September equinox06:3918:1318:50
December solstice07:1715:3816:23

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F242837475868737265534130
Precip in2.12.02.34.04.84.33.74.23.63.62.62.3

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Chicago Botanic Garden, 3 mi away.

  • American pokeweed180 obs
  • Great Blue Heron153 obs
  • White-tailed Deer118 obs
  • Black-crowned Night Heron115 obs
  • Mallard96 obs
  • common buckthorn93 obs
  • cutleaf teasel77 obs
  • Least Sandpiper70 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/37617561

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