Canyon Creek Falls
Canyon Creek Falls is a waterfall in Illinois, at a modelled elevation of 191 m. Mounded Landfill stands 259 m to the northwest, 4.8 miles off. The nearest named place is Canyon Creek Cascade, a waterfall less than a tenth of a mile away. Historic Route 66 passes 1.7 miles off. 18 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Height
- 2.5 m
How to reach it
- 1.7 mi off the Historic Route 66, National
- 11.0 mi off the Lincoln Highway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Des Plaines River · 10 mi
- Fabyan Windmill · 20 mi
- Viewing area · 23 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Internationale Estates Park: 0.4 mi
- Forest View Park: 0.5 mi
- Eight-Towers Climbing & Zipline Adventure: 1.3 mi
- Boy Scouts Training Field: 1.3 mi
- Brown Park: 1.3 mi
- Black Partridge Woods: 1.0 mi
- Black Partridge Woods Nature Preserve: 1.2 mi
- Romeoville Prairie County Forest Preserve: 2.7 mi
- Gateway Wetlands: 3.3 mi
- Veteran Woods County Forest Preserve: 3.3 mi
- Lemont Area Historical Society Museum: 1.2 mi
- Nuclear Energy Exhibition Hall: 1.9 mi
- National Shrine Museum of St. Thesese: 3.3 mi
- Sagawau Environmental Learning Center: 3.9 mi
- Old Lace School Museum: 4.5 mi
- The Forge: Lemont Quarries: 1.4 mi
- Mayslake Peabody Estate: 9.8 mi
- GoApe Ropes Course: 10.4 mi
- Mexican Gray Wolf: 12.9 mi
- Schmuhl School: 12.9 mi
- Unknown: 1.7 mi
- Balancing Beam: 1.8 mi
- Sister 1: 1.8 mi
- Unknown: 1.8 mi
- Four Corners: 1.8 mi
- ZGS Piston: 2.3 mi
- Chicago Pile 1 Site A: 4.7 mi
- Chicago Pile 1 Plot M: 4.9 mi
- Reggie Leslie: 5.6 mi
- Piotr Przeslica: 5.6 mi
- Oak Savanna: 4.5 mi
- Wingren: 5.1 mi
- Hurwitz Memorial Garden: 6.7 mi
- Sandy Dawe Memorial Butterfly Garden: 7.5 mi
- Herb Garden: 7.5 mi
- Red Gate Woods: 4.8 mi
- Wolf Road Woods: 5.6 mi
- Tampier Lake Picnic Shelter Grove 1: 5.6 mi
- Pulaski Woods: 5.6 mi
- Columbia Woods Picnic Shelter Grove 1: 6.3 mi
- Signal Hill: 2.7 mi
- Centennial Hill: 3.8 mi
- Mounded Landfill: 4.8 mi
- Spruce Hill: 9.6 mi
- Hemlock Hill: 9.6 mi
- Westman Beach: 8.9 mi
- Centennial Beach: 9.7 mi
- Michigan Beach: 12.4 mi
- Humboldt Beach: 21.4 mi
- 41st Street Beach: 22.8 mi
- Chicago Southland Lincoln Oasis: 22.2 mi
- Prairie View Rest Area - Southbound: 23.8 mi
- Three Rivers Rest Area (Westbound): 23.8 mi
- Prairie View Rest Area - Northbound: 23.9 mi
- Canyon Creek Cascade: 0.0 mi
- Sawmill Creek Waterfall: 2.2 mi
- Rosemont Waterfall: 22.1 mi
- Swallow Cliffs: 7.2 mi
- Kankakee Bluffs: 24.1 mi
- Lake Strini: 5.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Canyon Creek Falls. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mounded Landfill | NW 305° | 259 m | 4.8 mi |
| Mount Hoy | NW 317° | 255 m | 13.4 mi |
| Players Hill | NE 43° | 187 m | 17.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:56 | 18:28 | 19:04 |
| June solstice | 05:18 | 19:49 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:40 | 18:14 | 18:51 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 15:40 | 16:25 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 24 | 27 | 38 | 51 | 62 | 72 | 77 | 75 | 67 | 54 | 41 | 30 |
| Precip in | 2.3 | 2.0 | 2.5 | 4.1 | 5.0 | 4.6 | 4.1 | 4.5 | 3.5 | 3.7 | 2.7 | 2.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Little RED School HSE, 7 mi away.
Months at or above the year’s average flow: Mar–Jul — fullest in Apr, leanest in Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean cfs | 785 | 918 | 1,284 | 1,544 | 1,496 | 1,022 | 1,059 | 608 | 618 | 737 | 591 | 685 |
USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge Des Plaines River Near Lemont, IL, 2 mi away — the nearest gauge, which can sit on a different stream.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/414848698
Day trips start here
- Lemont · 1 mi
- Bolingbrook · 4 mi
- Woodridge · 4 mi
- Downers Grove · 8 mi
- Lisle · 8 mi
- Hinsdale · 9 mi
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