Parrish Park

Parrish Park is a park in Jackson, Illinois. Parrish Park is situated nearby to the hamlet Lake Shore Drive Area, as well as near Boskydell.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Carbondale station and Banterra Center.

Carbondale station

Railway station

Photo: Augiejv, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Carbondale Station is an Amtrak intercity train station in Carbondale, Illinois, United States. The southern terminus of Amtrak's Illini and Saluki routes, it is also served by the City of New Orleans. Carbondale station is situated 1½ miles east of Parrish Park.

Banterra Center

Stadium

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Banterra Center is an 8,284-seat multi-purpose arena, on the campus of Southern Illinois University, in Carbondale, Illinois, United States. Construction on the arena began in the spring of 1962 and took nearly two years to complete. Banterra Center is situated 2 miles southeast of Parrish Park.

Davies Gym

Sports venue

Davies Gym is the home of the Southern Illinois Salukis women's volleyball team and former home of all indoor sports at SIU. Upon completion of the SIU Arena in 1964, men's programs moved to the new facility. Davies Gym is situated 2 miles east of Parrish Park.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Carbondale and Murphysboro.

Carbondale

Photo: Paul Sableman, CC BY 2.0.

Carbondale is a small city of about 25,000 in Southern about 14 miles east of the Mississippi River at roughly the southern edge of the plains, and the northern limit of the Shawnee hills.

Murphysboro

Town

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Murphysboro is a city in and the county seat of Jackson County, Illinois, United States. The population was 7,093 at the 2020 census. The city is part of the Metro Lakeland area. Murphysboro is situated 5 miles northwest of Parrish Park.

Parrish Park

Type: Park
Category: recreation area
Location: Jackson, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

37.72644° or 37° 43′ 35″ north

Longitude

-89.24814° or 89° 14′ 53″ west

Elevation

404 feet (123 metres)

Open location code

869GPQG2+HP

OpenStreetMap ID

node 354231521

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=park

GeoNames ID

4246705

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