Sawmill Creek Waterfall
Sawmill Creek Waterfall is a waterfall in Illinois, at a modelled elevation of 192 m. Mounded Landfill stands 259 m to the west-northwest, 6.1 miles off. The nearest named place is Walking Stick, a artwork 0.5 miles away. Historic Route 66 passes 1.8 miles off. 18 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Height
- 3 m
How to reach it
- 1.8 mi off the Historic Route 66, National
- 12.5 mi off the Lincoln Highway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Des Plaines River · 8 mi
- Fabyan Windmill · 21 mi
- Viewing area · 25 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Walking Stick: 0.5 mi
- Sister 2: 0.6 mi
- Unknown: 0.6 mi
- Jet Era: 0.6 mi
- Balancing Beam: 0.7 mi
- ZGS Piston: 1.1 mi
- Chicago Pile 1 Site A: 2.7 mi
- Chicago Pile 1 Plot M: 2.8 mi
- Pulaski Woods: 3.7 mi
- Reggie Leslie: 3.7 mi
- Nuclear Energy Exhibition Hall: 1.3 mi
- National Shrine Museum of St. Thesese: 2.0 mi
- Sagawau Environmental Learning Center: 2.3 mi
- Lemont Area Historical Society Museum: 2.9 mi
- Old Lace School Museum: 3.2 mi
- The Forge: Lemont Quarries: 1.7 mi
- Mayslake Peabody Estate: 8.5 mi
- GoApe Ropes Course: 8.6 mi
- Mexican Gray Wolf: 10.9 mi
- Andean Condor: 10.9 mi
- Timberlake Park: 1.8 mi
- Eight-Towers Climbing & Zipline Adventure: 1.8 mi
- Smart Oaks Park: 1.9 mi
- Citizens Parks: 1.9 mi
- Internationale Estates Park: 2.2 mi
- Des Plaines Riverway Forest Preserve: 2.2 mi
- Black Partridge Woods: 3.2 mi
- Black Partridge Woods Nature Preserve: 3.4 mi
- John Husar I&M Canal: 3.6 mi
- Fox Hollow Forest Preserve: 3.6 mi
- Red Gate Woods: 2.7 mi
- Pulaski Woods: 3.5 mi
- Wolf Road Woods: 3.6 mi
- Columbia Woods Picnic Shelter Grove 1: 4.2 mi
- Maple Lake: 4.3 mi
- Oak Savanna: 5.8 mi
- Hurwitz Memorial Garden: 5.9 mi
- Wingren: 6.5 mi
- Community Garden: 7.1 mi
- Peirce Park Community Garden: 7.3 mi
- Westman Beach: 7.5 mi
- Centennial Beach: 10.9 mi
- Michigan Beach: 14.0 mi
- Humboldt Beach: 19.3 mi
- 41st Street Beach: 20.6 mi
- Signal Hill: 0.6 mi
- Centennial Hill: 1.7 mi
- Mounded Landfill: 6.1 mi
- Spruce Hill: 9.7 mi
- Hemlock Hill: 9.7 mi
- Canyon Creek Cascade: 2.2 mi
- Canyon Creek Falls: 2.2 mi
- Rosemont Waterfall: 20.5 mi
- Chicago Southland Lincoln Oasis: 20.8 mi
- Prairie View Rest Area - Southbound: 23.8 mi
- Prairie View Rest Area - Northbound: 24.0 mi
- Lake Strini: 8.0 mi
- Rain Garden Springs: 24.1 mi
- Swallow Cliffs: 5.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Sawmill Creek Waterfall. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mounded Landfill | WNW 286° | 259 m | 6.1 mi |
| Mount Hoy | NW 308° | 255 m | 14.1 mi |
| Players Hill | NE 41° | 187 m | 15.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:56 | 18:27 | 19:04 |
| June solstice | 05:18 | 19:48 | 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, 5 mi away.
Months at or above the year’s average flow: Feb–Jun — fullest in Apr, leanest in Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean cfs | 11.3 | 14.6 | 17.6 | 19.0 | 18.9 | 13.1 | 11.0 | 9.1 | 7.0 | 8.7 | 9.3 | 10.5 |
USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge Sawmill Creek Near Lemont, IL, under a mile away — the nearest gauge, which can sit on a different stream.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/2595738546
Day trips start here
- Lemont · 2 mi
- Woodridge · 5 mi
- Bolingbrook · 6 mi
- Hinsdale · 7 mi
- Downers Grove · 8 mi
- Burbank · 9 mi
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