Briarcliffe Park

Briarcliffe Park is a park in Lemont Township, Cook, Illinois. Briarcliffe Park is situated nearby to the nature reserve Romeoville Prairie County Forest Preserve, as well as near the park Heritage Woodland Sanctuary.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Lemont station and Romeoville station.

Lemont station

Railway station

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Lemont station is a station on Metra's Heritage Corridor in Lemont, Illinois. The station is 25.3 miles away from Union Station, the northern terminus of the line. Lemont station is situated 1½ miles northeast of Briarcliffe Park.

Romeoville station

Railway station

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Romeoville is a station on Metra's Heritage Corridor at the intersection of 135th Street and New Avenue in Romeoville, Illinois. As of 2018, Romeoville is the 170th busiest of Metra's 236 non-downtown stations, with an average of 148 weekday boardings. Romeoville station is situated 2 miles southwest of Briarcliffe Park.

Lemont Refinery

Factory

Lemont Refinery is an oil refinery in Romeoville, Illinois owned and operated by CITGO Petroleum Corporation. Originally constructed in the early 1920s, it acquired a nearby refinery as Pure Oil and then it significantly expanded the refinery between 1968 through 1970 by its then owner Union Oil. Lemont Refinery is situated 1¼ miles southwest of Briarcliffe Park.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lemont and Romeoville.

Lemont

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Lemont is a village in the Chicagoland region of Illinois, a state in the Midwest of the United States of America.

Romeoville

Town

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Romeoville is a village in Will County, Illinois, United States. The village is located 26 mi southwest of Chicago on the Gateway Wetlands, directly west of the Des Plaines River and Historic U.S. Route 66. Romeoville is situated 3½ miles west of Briarcliffe Park.

Bolingbrook

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Bolingbrook is a village in Will and DuPage counties in the U.S. state of Illinois. It is a southwest suburb of Chicago on I-55 and Historic Route 66. The village was a new town built on the Gateway Wetlands west of the Des Plaines River in the 1960s.

Briarcliffe Park

Type: Park
Category: recreation area
Location: Lemont Township, Cook, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

41.66119° or 41° 39′ 40″ north

Longitude

-88.02722° or 88° 1′ 38″ west

Open location code

86HHMX6F+F4

OpenStreetMap ID

way 374477983

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=park

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