Akin Park Picnic Area
Akin Park Picnic Area is a picnic site in Illinois, at a modelled elevation of 168 m. Mounded Landfill stands 259 m to the north, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Akin Park, a park less than a tenth of a mile away. Lincoln Highway passes 0.3 miles off. 9 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Joliet Park District
- Access
- Yes
How to reach it
- 0.3 mi off the Lincoln Highway, National
- 0.9 mi off the Historic Route 66, National
Overlooks nearby
- Viewing area · 11 mi
- Des Plaines River · 21 mi
- Fabyan Windmill · 27 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Akin Park: 0.0 mi
- Gottschlag Park: 0.3 mi
- Gottschlag Park: 0.3 mi
- Gutierrez Park: 0.4 mi
- Joliet East Side Historic District: 0.8 mi
- Louis Jolliet: 0.6 mi
- Mary Alfred Moes 1828-1899: 2.0 mi
- Yugo Griffin: 10.7 mi
- Balancing Beam: 13.5 mi
- Unknown: 13.5 mi
- Illinois Rock & Roll Museum on Route 66: 1.1 mi
- Joliet Area Historical Society Museum: 1.1 mi
- Slovenian Women's Union and Heritage Museum: 1.2 mi
- Gladys Fox Museum: 4.5 mi
- Will County Historical Museum and Research Center: 4.6 mi
- Joliet Iron Works Historic Site: 1.5 mi
- Lambs Woods: 3.6 mi
- Lockport Praire East Preserve: 3.8 mi
- Lockport Prairie Nature Preserve: 4.1 mi
- Lake Renwick Preserve - Turtle Lake Access: 7.8 mi
- Old telephone poles: 3.9 mi
- Schmuhl School: 7.1 mi
- The Grainery Building: 11.1 mi
- The Forge: Lemont Quarries: 11.8 mi
- Ellis House and Equestrian Center: 13.2 mi
- Dreams: 4.5 mi
- Illinois & Michigan Canal Office: 4.6 mi
- Plainfield Tornado Memorial: 9.0 mi
- Nativity Scene: 10.8 mi
- A. C. Sanders Memorial Stone: 13.5 mi
- Hickory Creek Barrens Nature Preserve: 7.1 mi
- Tampier Lake Picnic Shelter Grove 1: 11.8 mi
- Tampier Greenway Family Picnic Area Picnic Shelter Grove 1: 12.1 mi
- Cherry Hill Woods Picnic Shelter Grove 1: 14.4 mi
- Swallow Cliff Woods Picnic Shelter Grove 2: 14.8 mi
- Wingren: 7.0 mi
- Sandy Dawe Memorial Butterfly Garden: 14.0 mi
- Sensory Garden: 14.0 mi
- Lenore's Backyard Garden: 14.0 mi
- Herb Garden: 14.0 mi
- Signal Hill: 13.6 mi
- Mounded Landfill: 14.3 mi
- Centennial Hill: 14.4 mi
- Rotary Hill: 17.6 mi
- Belly Button Hill: 18.4 mi
- Three Rivers Rest Area (Westbound): 14.7 mi
- Three Rivers Rest Area (Eastbound): 16.0 mi
- Prairie View Rest Area - Southbound: 17.5 mi
- Prairie View Rest Area - Northbound: 17.6 mi
- Chicago Southland Lincoln Oasis: 24.2 mi
- Michigan Beach: 0.6 mi
- Centennial Beach: 17.7 mi
- Westman Beach: 20.8 mi
- Canyon Creek Falls: 11.9 mi
- Canyon Creek Cascade: 11.9 mi
- Sawmill Creek Waterfall: 13.5 mi
- Kankakee Bluffs: 13.4 mi
- Swallow Cliffs: 14.9 mi
- Lake Strini: 8.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Akin Park Picnic Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mounded Landfill | N 357° | 259 m | 14.3 mi |
| Mount Hoy | NNW 344° | 255 m | 22.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:57 | 18:28 | 19:05 |
| June solstice | 05:19 | 19:48 | 20:30 |
| September equinox | 06:40 | 18:15 | 18:51 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 15:41 | 16:26 |
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 | 38 | 49 | 60 | 70 | 74 | 72 | 66 | 53 | 40 | 29 |
| Precip in | 2.0 | 1.8 | 2.3 | 3.9 | 4.5 | 4.3 | 4.6 | 4.0 | 3.2 | 3.1 | 2.5 | 1.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Joliet Brandon RD DAM, 3 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element way/1147522975
Day trips start here
- Joliet · 4 mi
- Lemont · 11 mi
- Bolingbrook · 12 mi
- Tinley Park · 14 mi
- Woodridge · 15 mi
- Naperville · 16 mi
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