Wrightwood Park
Wrightwood Park is a park in Illinois, at a recorded elevation of 181 m. Mount Trashmore stands 204 m to the north-northwest, 6.9 miles off. The nearest named place is Schaefer Park, a park 0.2 miles away. Historic Route 66 passes 3.4 miles off. 17 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 181 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- Chicago Park District
How to reach it
- 3.4 mi off the Historic Route 66, National
- 29.1 mi off the Lincoln Highway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Des Plaines River · 14 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Schaefer Park: 0.2 mi
- Hartland Park: 0.4 mi
- Supera Park: 0.4 mi
- Clover Park: 0.4 mi
- Chi Che Wang Park: 0.5 mi
- Webster Wildlife Site: 0.5 mi
- North Pond Nature Sanctuary: 1.5 mi
- Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool: 1.7 mi
- Diversey Natural Area: 1.7 mi
- South Pond Natural Area: 1.9 mi
- Vincent de Paul with two students: 0.6 mi
- Eagle Columns: 0.7 mi
- Landslide: 0.8 mi
- Monsignor John Egan: 0.8 mi
- Doors Open Everywhere at Fullerton: 0.8 mi
- Vincentian Bicentennial Memorial: 0.7 mi
- Martha Wilson Memorial: 1.1 mi
- Freddie Mercury & Sylvester: 1.3 mi
- The Pink Triangle & The Harlem Renaissance: 1.3 mi
- Bayard Rustin & Sally Ride: 1.3 mi
- Panzer Garden: 0.8 mi
- DePaul Urban Garden: 0.8 mi
- Oz Park Garden: 1.2 mi
- Space Park: 1.4 mi
- Lane Tech Memorial Garden: 1.7 mi
- Biograph Theatre: 0.9 mi
- Red Wolf: 1.7 mi
- Eastern Black Rhinoceros: 1.7 mi
- River Otter: 1.7 mi
- Baby Eastern Black Rhinoceros: 1.7 mi
- Lincoln Park - Grove 10: 1.5 mi
- Lincoln Park - Grove 8: 1.6 mi
- Lincoln Park - Grove 13: 1.7 mi
- Lincoln Park - Grove 6: 1.8 mi
- Lincoln Park - Grove 5: 1.8 mi
- The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum: 1.6 mi
- Polish Museum of America: 2.0 mi
- Chicago History Museum: 2.1 mi
- Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art: 2.3 mi
- The Haitian American Museum of Chicago: 2.3 mi
- Humboldt Beach: 2.4 mi
- Oak Street Beach: 2.9 mi
- Montrose Dog Beach: 3.0 mi
- Ohio Street Beach: 3.7 mi
- Ardmore Hollywood (Osterman) Beach: 4.1 mi
- Horner Park Hill: 2.7 mi
- Soldier Field Sledding Hill: 5.5 mi
- Mount Bridgeport: 6.0 mi
- Players Hill: 6.3 mi
- Mount Trashmore: 6.9 mi
- Rosemont Waterfall: 10.8 mi
- Sawmill Creek Waterfall: 21.7 mi
- Canyon Creek Cascade: 23.8 mi
- Canyon Creek Falls: 23.8 mi
- Swallow Cliffs: 19.9 mi
- Covington Bluff: 22.0 mi
- Rain Garden Springs: 4.2 mi
- Tedens: 22.6 mi
- Chicago Southland Lincoln Oasis: 24.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Wrightwood Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Trashmore | NNW 343° | 204 m | 6.9 mi |
| Players Hill | SW 235° | 187 m | 6.3 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 | 19:48 | 20:30 |
| 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 | 26 | 29 | 38 | 48 | 58 | 68 | 74 | 74 | 67 | 54 | 43 | 31 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Chicago Northerly IS, 6 mi away.
- Mallard1,030 obs
- Canada Goose986 obs
- Black-crowned Night Heron854 obs
- House Sparrow800 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel710 obs
- Red-winged Blackbird526 obs
- Pond Slider468 obs
- Rock Pigeon461 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/28206546
Day trips start here
- Chicago/Logan-Bucktown · 2 mi
- Chicago/Wicker Park · 2 mi
- Chicagoland · 2 mi
- Chicago/Near North · 3 mi
- Chicago · 4 mi
- Chicago/Loop · 4 mi
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