Nature reserve · Michigan

Brown Bridge Quiet Area

Brown Bridge Quiet Area from directly overhead

Brown Bridge Quiet Area is a nature reserve in Michigan, at a modelled elevation of 276 m. Briar Hill stands 517 m to the south-southwest, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Woods and Waters Common Area, a park 1.7 miles away. 20 named summits stand within 25 miles.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by: City of Traverse City

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Getting there

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Coordinates44.65542, -85.48960

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks

Woods and Waters Common Area: 1.7 mi
Arbutus Lake No. 5 Park: 1.8 mi
Gazebo Rose Park: 2.0 mi
Grace Macdonald Park: 2.2 mi
Kelly Park: 2.6 mi

Nature reserves56

Howard and Mary Dunn Edwards Nature Sanctuary: 1.9 mi
Turtle Cove Nature Preserve: 2.0 mi
East Creek Reserve: 2.1 mi
Halladay-Blackhurst-Chowning Nature Preserve: 3.3 mi
Mitchell Creek Meadows: The Don & Jerry Oleson Nature Preserve: 5.8 mi

Artworks24

Neptune: 6.8 mi
Duet: 7.3 mi
Uranus: 7.3 mi
Pluto: 7.5 mi
Saturn: 8.4 mi

Peaks20

Observation Hill: 6.0 mi
McCrea Hill: 8.8 mi
Pierce Hill: 10.2 mi
Carpenter Hill: 10.3 mi
Wayne Hill: 11.4 mi

Museums20

Fife Lake Historical Museum: 8.7 mi
Dennos Museum Center: 9.0 mi
Music House Museum: 9.5 mi
Cider Mill: 14.6 mi
Oilfield Building: 14.6 mi

Attractions18

Hill to the Lake: 3.9 mi
Woodchip Hill: 4.1 mi
S-Curve: 4.2 mi
6k Hill: 5.1 mi
The Chute: 5.2 mi

Historic sites12

Northrup Grave: 2.8 mi
Kingsley Veterans Memorial: 5.5 mi
St. Francis A.D. 1887: 9.5 mi
Larry Cole Hardy: 9.8 mi
Gravesite of Traverse Colantha Walker: 10.1 mi

Gardens11

Hull Park Butterfly Garden: 9.1 mi
Challengers Island Garden: 9.2 mi
Salvation Army Daycare Garden: 9.2 mi
Archangel Gabriel Community Garden: 9.3 mi
Traverse City Community Garden: 10.0 mi

Beaches9

West End Beach: 10.7 mi
Torch Lake Sand Bar Public Access Point: 15.8 mi
Public Access: 16.4 mi
North Beach: 17.4 mi
Archie Valleau Landing: 18.8 mi

Picnic sites1

Chuck Wagon: 19.4 mi

On the horizon

Summits around it

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

Summit	Bearing	Elevation	Distance
Briar Hill	SSW 205°	517 m	22.1 mi
Briar Hill	SSW 206°	410 m	19.9 mi
Exodus Hill	NW 306°	370 m	13.3 mi
Twentyone Hill	ESE 110°	358 m	17.4 mi
Twentyone Hill	ESE 114°	357 m	17.6 mi
Gallagher Hill	NW 306°	355 m	14.5 mi
Varney Hill	WNW 294°	337 m	20.9 mi
Twin Mountains	WSW 246°	332 m	16.7 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:46	19:16	19:54
June solstice	05:57	20:47	21:32
September equinox	07:30	19:03	19:41
December solstice	08:17	16:17	17:05

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	23	24	32	43	55	66	70	69	62	50	39	29
Precip in	1.7	1.0	1.6	2.8	2.8	2.6	2.7	3.0	3.4	3.6	2.2	1.8

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Traverse CY Cherry Capital AP, 7 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap Official site

OpenStreetMap element way/895884980

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