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Clay Hill Community Farm and Gardens

Clay Hill Community Farm and Gardens from directly overhead

Clay Hill Community Farm and Gardens is a garden in Michigan, at a modelled elevation of 230 m. Mt. Brighton Main Peak (South) stands 405 m to the north-northwest, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Fireman's Park, a park 0.1 miles away. Monroe Street (M125) passes 24 miles off. 12 named summits stand within 25 miles.

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What to expect

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Willow Run Acres
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates42.27147, -83.58298
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Nature reserves
Historic sites
Artworks
  • Harriet Tubman: 2.7 mi
  • Sacred Heart Statue: 3.7 mi
  • Stations of the Cross: 3.7 mi
  • Kinetic Wind Sculpture: 4.4 mi
  • Face Of Infinity: 4.4 mi
Attractions
  • Plymouth Orchards and Cider Mill: 4.9 mi
  • Stick Tipi's and Lean-to's: 5.8 mi
  • MTB Skinny: 5.8 mi
  • Decode: 6.1 mi
  • Pirate Ship: 6.5 mi
Museums: 48
Gardens: 47
  • Frog Island Community Garden: 2.2 mi
  • Cultivate Community Garden: 2.3 mi
  • Community Garden: 4.4 mi
  • Alexandra Hicks Herb Knot Garden: 4.4 mi
  • Matthaei Botanical Gardens Display Gardens: 4.4 mi
Picnic sites: 37
  • Picnic Grove: 4.6 mi
  • Peter S. Fuss Pavilion: 7.0 mi
  • Washago Pond Picnic Area: 14.5 mi
  • Acorn Knoll Picnic Area: 14.8 mi
  • Big Bend Picnic Area: 15.0 mi
Beaches: 14
  • Martindale Beach: 17.9 mi
  • Orchard - View Colony Beach: 18.1 mi
  • Maple Beach: 18.4 mi
  • Twin Sun Lakes Common Area to Marina & Swim Area: 19.4 mi
  • Spring Lake Heights Annex Beach: 19.7 mi
Peaks: 12
  • Halsted Hill: 18.1 mi
  • Prospect Hill: 18.4 mi
  • Peach Mountain: 19.7 mi
  • Peach Mountain Peak (1040 Feet): 19.9 mi
  • Mt. Brighton Main Peak (South): 21.7 mi
Rest areas: 4
  • Belleville Rest Area: 4.8 mi
  • Northfield Church Rest Area 814: 10.3 mi
  • Carleton Rest Area 826: 19.6 mi
  • Chelsea Rest Area: 21.3 mi
Ghost towns: 1
Cliffs: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Clay Hill Community Farm and Gardens. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mt. Brighton Main Peak (South)NNW 328°405 m21.7 mi
Mt. Brighton SubPeak (North)NNW 328°399 m21.8 mi
Mount KanzerN 358°351 m24.1 mi
Mount OmichN 360°347 m24.7 mi
Teeple HillN 4°336 m24.9 mi
Peak 1083N 4°330 m25.0 mi
Peach MountainWNW 298°313 m19.7 mi
Mont BeauN 358°311 m23.3 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:3919:1019:47
June solstice05:5920:3221:15
September equinox07:2218:5619:33
December solstice08:0116:2017:06

Local time (America/Detroit).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F272938506171757366544232
Precip in1.71.42.13.13.33.03.03.13.02.52.21.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Detroit Willow RUN AP, 4 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • common buckthorn40 obs
  • cutleaf teasel37 obs
  • Virginia Springbeauty36 obs
  • Monarch32 obs
  • New England aster32 obs
  • wild geranium31 obs
  • bloodroot30 obs
  • large white trillium30 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/1330287499

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