Stop on this walk
Venus
Solidarity Drive walkway, opposite Northerly Island
📍 Stand on the path with the grasses on your left. In late summer they come up past the waist and the dome frames neatly over the top of them.
At true scale: 0.89 in (2.3 cm) across
About this place
Just under nine-tenths of an inch, 666 feet out. Venus and Earth are nearly the same size at this scale, and only 308 feet apart — the shortest leg on the whole walk, and the closest it ever comes to a pair.
While you're here
- Northerly Island Green space The prairie peninsula just south — a former airstrip turned nature preserve, with a loop trail and the best quiet view back at the skyline.
Next stop →
Continue west. Earth is at the first large monument you reach, on the right, backed by a curved stone screen.
See the whole route →