Children's Garden
Children's Garden is a garden in Michigan, at a modelled elevation of 213 m. Oakland Heights Landfill stands 388 m to the north, 15 miles off. Woodward Avenue (M-1) - Automotive Heritage Trail passes 2.5 miles off. 17 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What to expect
- Access
- Yes
How to reach it
- 2.5 mi off the Woodward Avenue (M-1) - Automotive Heritage Trail, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Children's Garden: 0.0 mi
- Children's Garden: 0.0 mi
- Lathrup Village Pride & Produce Garden: 0.0 mi
- The Ferndale Garden Club Community Garden: 4.3 mi
- Grant Park Community Garden: 4.3 mi
- Municipal Park: 0.0 mi
- Anne Lathrup Park: 0.1 mi
- Golden Gate Park: 0.5 mi
- Simms Park: 0.7 mi
- Catalpa Oaks County Park: 0.8 mi
- Lincoln Woods Nature Preserve: 1.0 mi
- Bauervic Woods Nature Preserve: 2.8 mi
- Hunters Lane Woods: 3.3 mi
- Horsetail Woods: 3.9 mi
- Quickstad Park: 3.9 mi
- Ockham's Wedge: 1.9 mi
- Saginaw Trail / John Almon Starr House: 3.3 mi
- Barnum School Archway: 3.5 mi
- Altar of Atonement: 5.4 mi
- Nichols Gate: 5.4 mi
- Dance Chimes: 2.4 mi
- Public Art: 3.5 mi
- Freedom of the Human Spirit: 3.7 mi
- The Star Dream: 4.0 mi
- Sasquatch: 5.5 mi
- Alex and Marie Manoogian Museum: 2.6 mi
- Royal Oak Historical Society: 3.3 mi
- The Birmingham Museum: 3.8 mi
- Ferndale Historical Society Museum: 4.5 mi
- Franklin Historical Museum: 4.6 mi
- Deer Blind Tree Stands: 3.0 mi
- Aardvark: 3.2 mi
- Cotton Family Wolf Wilderness: 3.2 mi
- Sloth: 3.2 mi
- Seal: 3.2 mi
- Arctic Overlook Picnic Site: 3.2 mi
- Pierson Lake picnic site: 3.2 mi
- Wolverine picnic site: 3.3 mi
- Red Panda Picnic Site: 3.3 mi
- Otter picnic site: 3.6 mi
- Kingswood Stream Beach: 5.7 mi
- Lone Pine Beach: 7.2 mi
- Westacres Beach: 12.3 mi
- Cebia Beach: 12.6 mi
- Aero View Beach: 12.8 mi
- Mt Tom: 4.5 mi
- Halsted Hill: 10.2 mi
- Oakland Heights Landfill: 14.8 mi
- Bald Mountain: 15.0 mi
- Mount Judah: 15.7 mi
- Clarkston Rest Area 904: 22.0 mi
- Belleville Rest Area: 24.2 mi
- The Bluffs: 24.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Children's Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oakland Heights Landfill | N 355° | 388 m | 14.8 mi |
| Grampian Hills | N 2° | 375 m | 22.2 mi |
| Pine Knob | NNW 337° | 367 m | 19.0 mi |
| Bald Mountain | N 358° | 351 m | 15.0 mi |
| Mount Kanzer | WNW 295° | 351 m | 21.1 mi |
| Mount Omich | WNW 297° | 347 m | 20.9 mi |
| Mount Judah | NNW 345° | 345 m | 15.7 mi |
| Waterford Hill | NNW 327° | 342 m | 18.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:37 | 19:08 | 19:45 |
| June solstice | 05:56 | 20:32 | 21:14 |
| September equinox | 07:21 | 18:55 | 19:32 |
| December solstice | 08:00 | 16:18 | 17:03 |
Local time (America/Detroit).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 23 | 25 | 34 | 45 | 57 | 67 | 71 | 70 | 62 | 50 | 38 | 29 |
| Precip in | 2.3 | 1.7 | 2.1 | 3.1 | 3.6 | 3.3 | 3.2 | 3.2 | 3.4 | 2.6 | 2.5 | 2.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Farmington, 7 mi away.
- Black Swallowtail26 obs
- Monarch15 obs
- Reddish-brown Stag Beetle14 obs
- Scissor Grinder13 obs
- White-tailed Deer12 obs
- Asian Lady Beetle11 obs
- Bold Jumping Spider10 obs
- common buckthorn10 obs
Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element way/312914262
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