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Champaign-Urbana Flatville Leonhard Center Pick Dodds Park Rantoul Springer Center Village Inn Pizza

Champaign-Urbana

map of east-central Illinois

Champaign-Urbana is located at the intersection of interstates 57, 72, and 74. Bloomington is about 50 miles to the northwest on I-74. Springfield is about 90 miles west on I-72. Indianapolis is about 120 miles east on I-74. To our north, about 135 miles on I-57 is Chicago. Mattoon and Charleston are about 50 miles South on I-57, with Effingham a bit further.

map of Champaign-Urbana

Leonhard Recreation Center

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Directions

The Leonhard Recreation Center is at 2112 W. Sangamon in Champaign. This is just to the west of Jefferson Middle School.

Pick Dodds Park Launch Site

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Directions

Dodds Park is on the north side of Bradely Avenue just east of Parkland Junior College in Champaign. If you enter the Parkland campus from Bradely you will see the park and its parking lot to your right. Where we set up for our launches will always be dependent on the wind direction. Usually we set up somewhere near the parking lot, but occasionally we are elsewhere. From time to time we fly on the northern part of the park near the baseball fields. In this case we would be parked along the east-west road through the park that leads to the Mattis entrance.

Springer Cultural Center

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Directions

The Springer Cultural Center is at 301 N. Randolph in Champaign, IL. This is at the north-west corner of Church and Randolph. I-72 becomes University as it comes into Champaign and you can follow this to Randolph and then turn north. Alternately take the Neil St. exit from I-74 and drive south until you reach Church. Turn west on Church and then north on Randolph. Park in the parking lot on the north side of the building off of Randolph and enter on the west side. Randolph is one-way going north.

Village Inn Pizza Parlor

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Directions

The Village Inn Pizza Parlor is at 1801 W. Springfield in Champaign. This is on the SW corner of the intersection of Springfield and Mattis.

Flatville Launch Site

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Directions

The launch site is on the northeast corner of the intersection of county roads 2300 N and 2100 E, about a mile due south of Flatville, Illinois.

Starting at University and Cunningham in Urbana, drive 6.9 miles north on Rt. 45 (Cunningham Ave.) to 2300 N. This is also approximately 5.6 miles north of I-74. There is a small grain elevator at this intersection. If you get to Thomasboro, you've gone too far!

Turn right (east) onto 2300 N and drive 6.5 miles to just past the intersection of 2300 N and 2100 E. The launch site is the field on the left side of the road. (Total driving distance is 13.4 miles from Five Points to the field.) We will probably set up in the middle of the field east of the power line that crosses it from northwest to southeast, in order to have the necessary 1500' separation from the farm buildings.

Rantoul Launch Site

map to the Rantoul site

Directions

We'll be launching in the field south of the airport.

Take US 45 to Chandler (south border of the old base). Turn east, drive about a 3/4 of a mile to Century (Eagle on the map). Turn left (north) on Century, about 1/2 mile to Cupernall. Turn right (east) on Cupernall, the equivalent of a couple of blocks until it stops at the airport fence. We'll be somewhere within sight of that location.

If the wind is from the east we'll be on the east side of the field. Instead of turning onto Century, continue on Chandler until it turns north as Perimeter Rd. We'll be somewhere along this road.

aerial photo of the Rantoul site

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