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Pardee Secret Garden

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Pardee Secret Garden is a garden in Michigan, at a modelled elevation of 186 m. Halsted Hill stands 297 m to the north-northwest, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is Pardee Athletic Fields, a park 0.1 miles away. Woodward Avenue (M-1) - Automotive Heritage Trail passes 11 miles off. 2 named summits stand within 25 miles.

How to reach it

Coordinates42.27624, -83.25682

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Pardee Athletic Fields: 0.1 mi
  • Heather Lane Park: 0.3 mi
  • Swapka Park: 0.4 mi
  • Madison Park: 0.5 mi
  • Penn-Vassar Park: 0.6 mi
Attractions
  • Five Replica Homes of Great Americans: 2.0 mi
  • Rouge Park cannon: 4.9 mi
  • Las Tres Rocas (MTB feature): 8.3 mi
  • Fort Wayne: 8.3 mi
  • Tree Climb Feature: 8.4 mi
Museums
Historic sites
  • James Howard Memorial: 2.3 mi
  • Thomas Alva Edison Statue: 2.5 mi
  • Toll Gate Monument: 3.0 mi
  • Melvindale Veterans Memorial: 4.1 mi
  • Northwest Airlines Flight 255 Crash Site Memorial: 4.3 mi
Artworks
Gardens
  • Organic Garden: 3.3 mi
  • Taylor Conservatory Botanical Garden: 4.4 mi
  • Blumrosen Memorial Rose Garden: 4.8 mi
  • Brightmoor Youth Garden: 8.4 mi
  • Cadillac Urban Garden: 8.6 mi
Nature reserves
  • Sassafras Trails Nature Center: 6.3 mi
  • Holliday Nature Preserve: 8.5 mi
  • Hennepin Marsh Preserve: 8.7 mi
  • Hennepin Marsh Gateway: 8.7 mi
  • The Wildlife Sanctuary: 9.5 mi
Picnic sites: 19
  • Big Bend Picnic Area: 11.6 mi
  • Washago Pond Picnic Area: 11.8 mi
  • Chestnut Picnic Area: 11.8 mi
  • Indian Ridge Picnic Area: 11.8 mi
  • Fox Meadows Picnic Area: 11.9 mi
Beaches: 13
  • Belle Isle Beach: 15.0 mi
  • Hipster Beach: 16.2 mi
  • Lone Pine Beach: 20.2 mi
  • Kingswood Stream Beach: 20.5 mi
  • Crescent Sail Club Beach (Private): 20.9 mi
Rest areas: 2
  • Belleville Rest Area: 14.0 mi
  • Carleton Rest Area 826: 16.9 mi
Peaks: 2
  • Mt Tom: 17.2 mi
  • Halsted Hill: 17.8 mi
Ghost towns: 1

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Pardee Secret Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Halsted HillNNW 332°297 m17.8 mi
Mt TomN 353°257 m17.2 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:3719:0819:45
June solstice05:5720:3121:14
September equinox07:2118:5519:32
December solstice07:5916:1917:04

Local time (America/Detroit).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F252736485969737164524031
Precip in2.52.32.33.33.63.33.53.23.02.92.72.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Dearborn, 3 mi away.

  • Black Swallowtail133 obs
  • Monarch117 obs
  • Eastern Carpenter Bee22 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee22 obs
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail21 obs
  • American Goldfinch18 obs
  • Asian Lady Beetle17 obs
  • Ailanthus Webworm Moth16 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.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/1179862291

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