Community Gardens
Community Gardens is a garden in Michigan, at a modelled elevation of 287 m. Mt. Brighton Main Peak (South) stands 405 m to the north, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Pollinator Garden, a garden less than a tenth of a mile away. Monroe Street (M125) passes 28 miles off. 15 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Project Grow
How to reach it
- 28.4 mi off the Monroe Street (M125)
Named places within 25 miles
- Greenview Nature Area: 0.1 mi
- Pioneer Woods Nature Area: 0.3 mi
- Dicken Woods Nature Area: 0.9 mi
- Eberwhite Woods: 1.0 mi
- Hansen Nature Area: 1.1 mi
- Lawton Park: 0.3 mi
- Lansdowne Park: 0.4 mi
- Las Vegas Park: 0.5 mi
- Allmendinger Park: 0.5 mi
- Meadowbrook Park: 0.5 mi
- Southwest Tower (Levine): 0.8 mi
- Northwest Tower (Ross): 0.9 mi
- Southeast Tower: 0.9 mi
- Northeast Tower (Tisch): 1.0 mi
- Nickels Arcade: 1.8 mi
- Grewal Park Northwest Entry Monument: 1.2 mi
- Grewal Park Southwest Entry Monument: 1.2 mi
- Ann Arbor, Michigan Global Position: 1.7 mi
- Professors’ Monument: 1.8 mi
- Native American Land Gift: 1.9 mi
- Peter S. Fuss Pavilion: 3.4 mi
- Picnic Grove: 5.8 mi
- Pineview Picnic Area: 10.6 mi
- Activity Center Picnic Area: 10.9 mi
- Oak Meadows Picnic Area: 11.3 mi
- Pollinator Garden: 0.0 mi
- Edible Garden: 0.0 mi
- Dicken Elementary PLANT Garden: 0.8 mi
- Grewal Park Community Garden: 1.2 mi
- Eula D. Marcks Garden: 2.0 mi
- Argus Museum: 1.4 mi
- University of Michigan Museum of Art: 1.7 mi
- Kelsey Museum of Archaeology: 1.7 mi
- Kempf House Museum: 1.7 mi
- Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum: 1.8 mi
- Prospect Hill: 10.1 mi
- Peach Mountain: 13.0 mi
- Peach Mountain Peak (1040 Feet): 13.1 mi
- Riley Hill: 17.1 mi
- Stofer Hill: 17.2 mi
- Orchard - View Colony Beach: 17.5 mi
- Pine Creek Ridge Lodge Beach: 18.4 mi
- Martindale Beach: 19.6 mi
- Maple Beach: 20.1 mi
- Twin Sun Lakes Common Area to Marina & Swim Area: 23.9 mi
- Northfield Church Rest Area 814: 6.7 mi
- Chelsea Rest Area: 12.3 mi
- Belleville Rest Area: 12.7 mi
- Grass Lake Rest Area: 23.2 mi
- Rawsonville: 11.2 mi
- The Bluffs: 21.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Community Gardens. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mt. Brighton Main Peak (South) | N 353° | 405 m | 19.4 mi |
| Mt. Brighton SubPeak (North) | N 353° | 399 m | 19.6 mi |
| Cassidy Kame | WNW 292° | 344 m | 17.5 mi |
| Sackrider Hill | W 278° | 338 m | 23.0 mi |
| Big Kame | WNW 295° | 328 m | 18.3 mi |
| Sugarloaf Hill | WNW 288° | 327 m | 18.5 mi |
| Stofer Hill | WNW 297° | 321 m | 17.2 mi |
| Prospect Hill | NW 306° | 318 m | 18.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:39 | 19:10 | 19:47 |
| June solstice | 05:59 | 20:33 | 21:16 |
| September equinox | 07:23 | 18:57 | 19:34 |
| December solstice | 08:01 | 16:21 | 17:06 |
Local time (America/Detroit).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 24 | 25 | 35 | 47 | 58 | 66 | 71 | 69 | 61 | 50 | 39 | 29 |
| Precip in | 1.7 | 1.5 | 1.9 | 3.0 | 3.4 | 3.6 | 3.2 | 2.7 | 2.8 | 2.2 | 2.1 | 1.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — ANN Arbor Muni AP, 3 mi away.
- Eastern Fox Squirrel550 obs
- Eastern Cottontail405 obs
- white clover294 obs
- American Robin232 obs
- ribwort plantain230 obs
- tree-of-heaven222 obs
- common buckthorn218 obs
- ground-ivy198 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.
OpenStreetMapOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/260645637
Day trips start here
- Maybee · 22 mi
- Carleton · 23 mi
- Monroe County · 27 mi
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