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Ambassador Park

Ambassador Park from directly overhead

Ambassador Park is a park in Michigan, at a recorded elevation of 192 m. Oakland Heights Landfill stands 388 m to the north-northwest, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Red Oaks Nature Center, a park 0.3 miles away. Woodward Avenue (M-1) - Automotive Heritage Trail passes 3.7 miles off. 14 named summits stand within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
192 m
Getting there

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Coordinates42.51878, -83.09862
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Museums
  • Red Oaks Nature Center: 0.3 mi
  • Polish Cultural Center: 2.2 mi
  • Clawson Historical Museum: 2.7 mi
  • Royal Oak Historical Society: 3.2 mi
  • Ferndale Historical Society Museum: 4.7 mi
Gardens
  • Church of Christ Community Garden: 2.4 mi
  • Decorative Garden: 2.8 mi
  • The Ferndale Garden Club Community Garden: 4.2 mi
  • Center Line Community Garden: 4.4 mi
  • Grant Park Community Garden: 5.6 mi
Historic sites
Nature reserves
Artworks
Attractions
Beaches: 23
  • Kingswood Stream Beach: 8.2 mi
  • Secret Beach: 9.1 mi
  • Lone Pine Beach: 11.8 mi
  • Accretion Beach: 13.2 mi
  • Little Beach: 13.4 mi
Peaks: 14
  • Mt Tom: 10.2 mi
  • Mt. Sheldon: 14.1 mi
  • Fibber Mountain: 14.2 mi
  • Bald Mountain: 14.7 mi
  • Oakland Heights Landfill: 14.9 mi
Picnic sites: 13
  • Otter picnic site: 4.0 mi
  • Main picnic site: 4.0 mi
  • Main Picnic Grove: 4.0 mi
  • PlayVenture picnic site: 4.0 mi
  • Red Panda Picnic Site: 4.1 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Rest areas: 1
  • Former Richmond Rest Area 910 - CLOSED: 24.7 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Oakland Heights LandfillNNW 330°388 m14.9 mi
Grampian HillsNNW 345°375 m21.0 mi
Pine KnobNW 319°367 m20.7 mi
Bald MountainNNW 333°351 m14.7 mi
Twombly MountainN 1°349 m22.3 mi
Mount JudahNW 323°345 m16.8 mi
Waterford HillNW 310°342 m20.7 mi
Teeple HillWNW 289°336 m24.4 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:3719:0819:45
June solstice05:5620:3121:14
September equinox07:2018:5419:32
December solstice08:0016:1717:03

Local time (America/Detroit).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F262837486070747365534132
Precip in1.41.42.02.83.53.13.23.13.12.32.21.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Detroit City AP, 9 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel60 obs
  • Jack-in-the-Pulpit49 obs
  • wild geranium35 obs
  • White-tailed Deer33 obs
  • American pokeweed28 obs
  • bloodroot28 obs
  • yellow trout lily24 obs
  • mayapple24 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/355571361

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