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Avondale Park

Avondale Park from directly overhead

Avondale Park is a park in Michigan, at a recorded elevation of 254 m. Oakland Heights Landfill stands 388 m to the north-northwest, 5.9 miles off. The nearest named place is Troy Farm, a park 0.9 miles away. Woodward Avenue (M-1) - Automotive Heritage Trail passes 4.2 miles off. 23 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What the record says

Elevation
254 m

How to reach it

Coordinates42.63049, -83.18851

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Attractions
  • Adams Road Mastodon: 1.0 mi
  • Step Pools: 1.4 mi
  • Big Idea Chair: 1.4 mi
  • Waterfall Pointe: 1.4 mi
  • (some steel object projecting out of the water): 5.9 mi
Historic sites
  • Troy Fallen Firefighters Memorial: 1.5 mi
  • Gjergj Kastrioti Skenderbeu: 2.4 mi
  • Guardian Angel Columbarium: 3.1 mi
  • Persian Gulf Memorial: 3.2 mi
  • World War II Four Freedoms Memorial: 3.2 mi
Nature reserves
  • Ruby Green Space Property: 1.7 mi
  • Avon Nature Study Area: 2.8 mi
  • Rivercrest Green Space Property: 3.1 mi
  • Cloverport Green Space Property: 3.8 mi
  • Childress Green Space Property: 4.0 mi
Gardens
Artworks
Museums
Picnic sites: 30
  • Rose Sortor Gazebo: 7.9 mi
  • Southdale Picnic Area: 8.6 mi
  • Arctic Overlook Picnic Site: 10.6 mi
  • Red Panda Picnic Site: 10.6 mi
  • Pierson Lake picnic site: 10.7 mi
Beaches: 25
  • Kingswood Stream Beach: 4.9 mi
  • Secret Beach: 6.8 mi
  • Lone Pine Beach: 8.2 mi
  • Eastwood Beach: 8.4 mi
  • Baypoint Beach: 8.4 mi
Peaks: 23
Ghost towns: 2
Rest areas: 1
  • Clarkston Rest Area 904: 17.0 mi
Cliffs: 1

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Oakland Heights LandfillNNW 330°388 m5.9 mi
Mount ChristieNNW 338°387 m18.9 mi
Grampian HillsN 356°375 m12.7 mi
Pine KnobNW 310°367 m12.0 mi
Kerr HillNNW 331°367 m21.0 mi
Enders HillNW 313°366 m20.7 mi
Bald MountainNNW 339°351 m5.8 mi
Mount KanzerW 268°351 m20.8 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:3719:0819:45
June solstice05:5620:3221:15
September equinox07:2118:5519:32
December solstice08:0016:1717:03

Local time (America/Detroit).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F242635475968737164514030
Precip in2.21.92.22.93.83.33.13.22.92.93.12.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Pontiac Wwtp, 4 mi away.

  • White-tailed Deer95 obs
  • Eastern Skunk Cabbage78 obs
  • Wild Turkey68 obs
  • Mallard48 obs
  • dame's rocket44 obs
  • bittersweet nightshade43 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel42 obs
  • garlic mustard40 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/344097641

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