Cricket Hill
A grassy lakefront hill beside Montrose Harbor with just enough elevation to become considerably less charming after enough repeats.
The hill at Montrose.
Cricket Hill sits just west of Montrose Harbor along Chicago's lakefront. In another city, it might be a pleasant little hill.
Here, we have standards to maintain.
Its open grassy slope and surrounding paths make it useful for short climbs, repeat workouts and accumulating vertical without leaving the city.
The Park District decided to build it in 1948, as an artificial sledding hill on its new lakefront landfill at Montrose.
Know what you're running
- Primary surface
- Grass
- Secondary surface
- Paved path
- Exposure
- Open
- Terrain character
- Short, repeatable climb
Surface conditions vary with weather.
How tall is it? How tall you need it?
One repeat isn't much of a mountain. That's what the next repeat is for. The following number of repeats are approximations only and based on specific routes mapped by CMR. The Cricket Hill route is .2 miles up and down.
- 500 ft of climbing
- 13 repeats, about 2.6 miles
- 1,000 ft of climbing
- 25 repeats, about 5 miles
- 2,500 ft of climbing
- 63 repeats, about 12.6 miles
- 5,000 ft of climbing
- 125 repeats, about 25 miles
Run it with us
Cricket Mtn Repeats
Every Saturday · 5:30 AM · Cricket Hill · Montrose Beach
Hill repeats · ~2 hrs
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