Champaign-Urbana Dodds Park Forsyth Leonhard Center Rantoul Springer Center



Champaign-Urbana


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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.


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 fly on the soccer fields in the southern part of the park and 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.


Leonhard Recreation Center


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Directions

The new Leonhard Recreation Center is at 2307 W. Sangamon in Champaign. This is just to the west of Jefferson Middle School on the south side of the street.


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 western half of 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.


Forsyth Launch Site

Directions

Take I-72 to Decatur
Take exit 141B north toward Forsyth
Head north on US-51 toward W. Forsyth Rd.
Turn left (west) onto W. Forsyth Rd. (.5 mi)
Continue west onto W. Illiniwick Rd. (1.4 mi)
Turn right (north) onto Janvrin Rd. (1 mi)
Turn left (west) onto Schellabarger Rd. (.5 mi)
The launch site is along Schellabarger Rd. between Janvrin Rd. and Bearsdale Rd.


Rantoul Launch Site


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Directions

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

From the south 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 Coon Ave. Turn right (east) on Coon, the equivalent of a couple of blocks until it intersects Hallberg. We'll be somewhere within sight of that location, probably somewhere along Hallberg St. between Cupernell and Coon Ave.

From the north you can take Century south past the airport to Coon or Cupernell.

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 probably be a little way inside the airport access gate.


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