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Adams Butzel Recreation Complex

Adams Butzel Recreation Complex from directly overhead

Adams Butzel Recreation Complex is a park in Michigan, at a recorded elevation of 199 m. Oakland Heights Landfill stands 388 m to the north, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Sawyer Playground, a park 0.8 miles away. Woodward Avenue (M-1) - Automotive Heritage Trail passes 3.4 miles off. 7 named summits stand within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
199 m
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates42.39700, -83.16667
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Sawyer Playground: 0.8 mi
  • Clinton Park (DPS): 0.8 mi
  • Intervale-Roselawn Park: 0.9 mi
  • Lollo Playground: 1.1 mi
  • Littlefield Playfield: 1.2 mi
Gardens: 60
  • Grandmont Rosedale Community Garden: 2.6 mi
  • Palmer Park Urban Educational Garden: 3.1 mi
  • GRDC Rain Garden: 3.6 mi
  • Grant Park Community Garden: 3.7 mi
  • Orchard Street Community Garden: 4.8 mi
Artworks
Historic sites
Museums
Attractions
  • Rouge Park cannon: 5.3 mi
  • Cotton Family Wolf Wilderness: 5.4 mi
  • Prairie Dog: 5.4 mi
  • Bald Eagle: 5.5 mi
  • Wolverine: 5.5 mi
Nature reserves
  • Bauervic Woods Nature Preserve: 5.8 mi
  • Lincoln Woods Nature Preserve: 6.1 mi
  • Horsetail Woods: 6.2 mi
  • Hunters Lane Woods: 6.9 mi
  • Quickstad Park: 8.8 mi
Beaches: 21
  • Belle Isle Beach: 10.3 mi
  • Hipster Beach: 11.3 mi
  • Kingswood Stream Beach: 12.7 mi
  • Lone Pine Beach: 14.0 mi
  • Crescent Sail Club Beach (Private): 14.3 mi
Picnic sites: 20
  • Wolverine picnic site: 5.5 mi
  • Pierson Lake picnic site: 5.5 mi
  • PlayVenture picnic site: 5.6 mi
  • Main Picnic Grove: 5.6 mi
  • Main picnic site: 5.6 mi
Peaks: 7
  • Mt Tom: 11.0 mi
  • Halsted Hill: 14.9 mi
  • Oakland Heights Landfill: 21.6 mi
  • Bald Mountain: 21.8 mi
  • Mt. Sheldon: 22.6 mi
Ghost towns: 3
Rest areas: 1
  • Belleville Rest Area: 21.8 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Oakland Heights LandfillN 349°388 m21.6 mi
Bald MountainN 352°351 m21.8 mi
Mount JudahNNW 343°345 m22.8 mi
Fibber MountainN 7°302 m22.8 mi
Halsted HillWNW 300°297 m14.9 mi
Mt. SheldonN 7°290 m22.6 mi
Mt TomNW 323°257 m11.0 mi
Conditions

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 solstice07:5916:1817:04

Local time (America/Detroit).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F262837485969747265534131
Precip in2.12.12.53.23.73.73.43.53.02.82.62.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Dearborn #2, 4 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • dense blazing star24 obs
  • Butler's Garter Snake10 obs
  • Eastern Foxsnake10 obs
  • American pokeweed6 obs
  • Chinese Mantis6 obs
  • White-tailed Deer5 obs
  • Monarch5 obs
  • American Robin4 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/327153430

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