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Austin-Dannis Park

Austin-Dannis Park from directly overhead

Austin-Dannis Park is a park in Michigan, at a modelled elevation of 190 m. Oakland Heights Landfill stands 388 m to the north-northwest, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Miller Park, a park 0.9 miles away. Woodward Avenue (M-1) - Automotive Heritage Trail passes 4.0 miles off. 10 named summits stand within 25 miles.

How to reach it

Coordinates42.46865, -83.05114

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Gardens: 60
  • Decorative Garden: 1.5 mi
  • Center Line Community Garden: 1.6 mi
  • Church of Christ Community Garden: 3.9 mi
  • Palmer Park Urban Educational Garden: 4.6 mi
  • The Ferndale Garden Club Community Garden: 4.7 mi
Historic sites
Attractions
Museums
Artworks
Nature reserves
Beaches: 18
  • Belle Isle Beach: 9.3 mi
  • Accretion Beach: 9.4 mi
  • Little Beach: 9.5 mi
  • Crescent Sail Club Beach (Private): 9.6 mi
  • Hipster Beach: 9.6 mi
Picnic sites: 11
  • PlayVenture picnic site: 5.2 mi
  • Main picnic site: 5.2 mi
  • Main Picnic Grove: 5.2 mi
  • Otter picnic site: 5.2 mi
  • Red Panda Picnic Site: 5.5 mi
Peaks: 10
  • Mt Tom: 13.1 mi
  • Mt. Sheldon: 17.8 mi
  • Fibber Mountain: 17.9 mi
  • Bald Mountain: 18.9 mi
  • Halsted Hill: 19.0 mi
Ghost towns: 2

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Oakland Heights LandfillNNW 329°388 m19.1 mi
Pine KnobNW 320°367 m24.9 mi
Bald MountainNNW 331°351 m18.9 mi
Mount JudahNW 323°345 m21.0 mi
Waterford HillNW 313°342 m24.8 mi
Fibber MountainN 350°302 m17.9 mi
Halsted HillW 278°297 m19.0 mi
Mt. SheldonN 350°290 m17.8 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:3619:0719:45
June solstice05:5620:3121:14
September equinox07:2018:5419:31
December solstice07:5916:1717:03

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, 5 mi away.

  • Black Swallowtail34 obs
  • Monarch18 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel15 obs
  • Ailanthus Webworm Moth14 obs
  • Bold Jumping Spider13 obs
  • Peck's Skipper12 obs
  • box elder11 obs
  • American pokeweed11 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/493682269

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