Big Bend Lake Grove #1
Big Bend Lake Grove #1 is a picnic site in Illinois, at a modelled elevation of 194 m. Mounded Landfill stands 259 m to the south-southwest, 25 miles off. The nearest named place is Kloempken Prairie Preserve, a nature reserve 0.5 miles away. Historic Route 66 passes 16 miles off. 19 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Forest Preserve District of Cook County
How to reach it
- 15.8 mi off the Historic Route 66, National
- 25.0 mi off the Lincoln Highway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Des Plaines River · 19 mi
- Fabyan Windmill · 26 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Kloempken Prairie Preserve: 0.5 mi
- Kloempken Prairie: 0.7 mi
- Belleau Wood Preserve: 0.7 mi
- Lions Woods: 0.8 mi
- Beck Lake: 1.0 mi
- Sesquicentennial Park: 0.6 mi
- Dee Park: 0.8 mi
- Rand Park: 1.0 mi
- Willow Park: 1.0 mi
- Menominee Park: 1.2 mi
- Belleau Wood Memorial: 0.6 mi
- The Plank Road: 2.1 mi
- Flight 191 Memorial: 3.2 mi
- War Memorial: 3.6 mi
- World War I Memorial: 4.4 mi
- Lions Woods Grove #1: 0.7 mi
- Northwestern Woods Grove #1: 1.2 mi
- Camp Ground Road Woods Grove #1: 1.6 mi
- Camp Pine Woods Grove #1: 2.3 mi
- Dam No. 2 Woods Grove #1: 2.4 mi
- Des Plaines History Museum: 1.2 mi
- Kinder House: 1.2 mi
- Robert Kennicott House: 2.2 mi
- Niles Historical Society: 2.3 mi
- Wildwood Nature Center: 2.5 mi
- Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe: 1.6 mi
- 1000 gecs tree: 2.6 mi
- Sugar Shack: 3.0 mi
- Plant identification trail: 3.0 mi
- Leaning Tower of Niles: 5.3 mi
- Statue of Liberty: 2.5 mi
- Undercover History: 3.1 mi
- Wing: 3.2 mi
- Glenview Bear: 3.7 mi
- Donald E. Stephens: 3.9 mi
- Maple Street Butterfly Waystation (#45081): 3.4 mi
- West Fork Corridor Native Rain Garden: 3.9 mi
- Niles Community Rain Garden: 4.4 mi
- KE20: 5.0 mi
- KE19: 5.0 mi
- Maple Street Beach: 8.4 mi
- Tower Road Beach: 8.4 mi
- Cherry Street Beach: 8.5 mi
- Elder Lane Beach: 8.6 mi
- Glencoe Beach: 8.7 mi
- Centennial Hill: 3.3 mi
- Schiller Woods-East Sledding Hill: 6.8 mi
- Hidden Hill: 7.2 mi
- Mount Trashmore: 8.7 mi
- Horner Park Hill: 11.0 mi
- Rosemont Waterfall: 4.3 mi
- Sawmill Creek Waterfall: 24.4 mi
- Rain Garden Springs: 10.4 mi
- Covington Bluff: 12.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Big Bend Lake Grove #1. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mounded Landfill | SSW 206° | 259 m | 24.7 mi |
| Mount Hoy | SW 226° | 255 m | 22.0 mi |
| Mount Trashmore | ESE 103° | 204 m | 8.7 mi |
| Players Hill | SSE 156° | 187 m | 13.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:56 | 18:27 | 19:04 |
| June solstice | 05:17 | 19:49 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:40 | 18:14 | 18:51 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 15:38 | 16:24 |
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 | 25 | 29 | 38 | 49 | 60 | 70 | 75 | 73 | 66 | 54 | 41 | 30 |
| Precip in | 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.8 | 3.3 | 3.8 | 4.0 | 3.2 | 3.7 | 3.0 | 3.1 | 2.1 | 1.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Chicago Palwaukee AP, 5 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element way/180622921
Day trips start here
- Chicago/Logan-Bucktown · 12 mi
- Chicago/Far West Side · 13 mi
- Chicago/Wicker Park · 14 mi
- Berwyn · 15 mi
- Chicagoland · 15 mi
- Cicero · 15 mi
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