Mt. Trashmore
A former Evanston landfill, closed in 1965 and promoted to mountain. Garbage, it turns out, stacks well.
The hill at James Park.
Mt. Trashmore rises in Robert E. James Park in Evanston. It was a solid-waste landfill until 1965, when it was closed and turned into a park, and it has been a popular sledding hill since. From 1973 it was briefly a ski slope, tow rope included.
Every mountain range needs a backstory. This one's happens to be municipal waste.
Know what you're running
- Surface
- Grass/dirt
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. CMR hasn't mapped a route on Mt. Trashmore yet, so there are no repeat counts here.
- 500 ft of climbing
- Not counted yet
- 1,000 ft of climbing
- Not counted yet
- 2,500 ft of climbing
- Not counted yet
- 5,000 ft of climbing
- Not counted yet
Run it with us
No set weekly run.
Mt. Trashmore isn't on the CMR calendar right now. See where we're climbing next.
Find what you've been looking for.
Robert E. James ParkEvanston, IllinoisDirections go to the park, not a meeting point. Each run lists where to meet.
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