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Pollinator Garden

Pollinator Garden from directly overhead

Pollinator Garden is a garden in Michigan, at a modelled elevation of 286 m. Mt. Brighton Main Peak (South) stands 405 m to the north, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Community Gardens, 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
Friends of Greenview and Pioneer Nature Area
Fee
No

Official site

How to reach it

Coordinates42.25817, -83.76273

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Parks
  • Lawton Park: 0.3 mi
  • Lansdowne Park: 0.4 mi
  • Allmendinger Park: 0.5 mi
  • Las Vegas Park: 0.5 mi
  • Meadowbrook Park: 0.5 mi
Attractions
  • 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
Artworks
Picnic sites: 36
  • 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
Gardens: 33
Peaks: 15
Beaches: 7
  • 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
Rest areas: 4
  • 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
Ghost towns: 1
Cliffs: 1

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mt. Brighton Main Peak (South)N 353°405 m19.4 mi
Mt. Brighton SubPeak (North)N 353°399 m19.6 mi
Cassidy KameWNW 292°344 m17.5 mi
Sackrider HillW 278°338 m23.0 mi
Big KameWNW 295°328 m18.3 mi
Sugarloaf HillWNW 288°327 m18.5 mi
Stofer HillWNW 297°321 m17.3 mi
Prospect HillNW 306°318 m18.0 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:3919:1019:47
June solstice05:5920:3321:16
September equinox07:2318:5719:34
December solstice08:0116:2117:06

Local time (America/Detroit).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F242535475866716961503929
Precip in1.71.51.93.03.43.63.22.72.82.22.11.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — ANN Arbor Muni AP, 3 mi away.

  • Eastern Fox Squirrel575 obs
  • Eastern Cottontail412 obs
  • white clover296 obs
  • American Robin247 obs
  • ribwort plantain230 obs
  • tree-of-heaven223 obs
  • common buckthorn222 obs
  • Red-tailed Hawk207 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 site

OpenStreetMap element way/1086843674

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