Chicago Parks by Radius

National Park Service

Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park
Dayton Aviation Heritage commemorates three exceptional men - Wilbur Wright, Orville Wright, and Paul Laurence Dunbar - and their work in the Miami Valley. Through the invention of powered flight, Wilbur and Orville made significant contributions to human history. Paul Laurence Dunbar, an African-American, achieved national and international acclaim in a literary world that was almost exclusively reserved for whites.

Effigy Mounds National Monument
The monument contains 2,526 acres with 195 mounds of which 31 are effigies. The others are conical, linear and compound. Natural features in the monument include forests, tallgrass prairies, wetlands and rivers.

Father Marquette National Memorial
Father Jacques Marquette, a French Jesuit missionary, established Michigan's earliest European settlements at Sault Ste. Marie and St. Ignace. Father Marquette helped Louis Jolliet map the Mississippi River.

George Rogers Clark National Historical Park
The heroic march of Clark's men from Kaskaskia on the Mississippi in mid-winter and the subsequent victory over the British remains one of the great feats of the American Revolution.

Gettysburg National Cemetery
It was here during the dedication ceremony on November 19, 1863, that President Abraham Lincoln spoke of "these honored dead..." and renewed the Union cause to reunite the war-torn nation with his most famous speech, the "Gettysburg Address". Today, the Gettysburg National Cemetery is the final resting place for American veterans from all of this country's major wars and conflicts.

Green Springs
Green Springs is a natural basin caused by erosion of a volcanic intrusion resulting in particularly fertile soil.

Herbert Hoover National Historic Site
The Herbert Hoover National Historic Site buildings and grounds are preserved to commemorate the life of the 31st President of the United States.

Hopewell Culture National Historical Park
The park contains nationally significant archeological resources including large earthwork and mound complexes that provide an insight into the social, ceremonial, political, and economic life of the Hopewell people.

Ice Age National Scenic Trail
The Ice Age National Scenic Trail travels through the edges of the glacier that passed into Wisconsin.

Illinois and Michigan Canal National Heritage Corridor
The Illinois and Michigan Canal, completed in 1848, connected the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River watershed along a longstanding Indian portage route. It rapidly transformed Chicago from a small settlement to a critical transportation hub between the East and the developing Midwest.

Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore
The national lakeshore runs for nearly 25 miles along southern Lake Michigan, bordered by Michigan City, Indiana on the east, and Gary on the west. Miles of beaches, sand dunes, bog, wetlands, woodland forests, an 1830's French Canadian homestead, and a working 1900 era farm combine to make the national lakeshore a unique setting for studying humans and their impact on the environment.

Jefferson National Expansion Memorial
Jefferson National Expansion Memorial consists of the Gateway Arch, the Museum of Westward Expansion, and St. Louis' Old Courthouse.

Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial
Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial preserves the site of the farm where Abraham Lincoln spent 14 formative years of his life, from the ages of 7 to 21.

Lincoln Home National Historic Site
Abraham and Mary Lincoln lived here from 1844 until Mr. Lincoln's election to the Presidency in 1861.

Perrys Victory and International Peace Memorial
In 1817 the United States signed the Rush-Bagot Agreement with Great Britain, a document that has resulted in peaceful relations between the United States and Canada since the War of 1812. Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial was built not only to commemorate the American naval triumph, but also "to inculcate the lessons of international peace by arbitration and disarmament."

Poverty Point National Monument
Poverty Point National Monument contains some of the largest prehistoric earth works in North America.

Saint Croix National Scenic River
Canoe amid the northwoods, where wolves, deer, otter and porcupine can be seen or boat surrounded by wooded bluffs and historic towns. The river's past can also be seen on the landscape; a stone wall, a steel ring, a cabin or a metal bridge recalls earlier times.

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
The park was established primarily for its outstanding natural features, including forests, beaches, dune formations, and ancient glacial phenomena. The Lakeshore also contains many cultural features including a 1871 lighthouse, three former Life-Saving Service/Coast Guard Stations and an extensive rural historic farm district.

Ulysses S Grant National Historic Site
The park commemorates the life, military career, and Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant. The site, also known as White Haven, consists of 9.65 acres holding five historic structures (main house, stone building, barn, chicken house, and ice house).

William Howard Taft National Historic Site
The William Howard Taft National Historic Site commemorates the only man to serve as President and Chief Justice of the United States.