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Barnes Park

Barnes Park from directly overhead

Barnes Park is a park in Michigan, at a recorded elevation of 279 m. Dixon Hall stands 332 m to the south-southeast, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Post Park, a park 0.4 miles away. 5 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What the record says

Elevation
279 m

How to reach it

Coordinates42.31036, -85.14600

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Post Park: 0.4 mi
  • Hamilton Park: 0.7 mi
  • Cliff Street Park: 1.0 mi
  • Kimball Pines Park: 1.0 mi
  • Horseshoe Bend Park: 1.1 mi
Attractions: 45
  • Full Blast: 2.1 mi
  • 2nd Stream: 8.7 mi
  • Harmonia: 8.7 mi
  • 1st Stream: 8.7 mi
  • Switchback: 8.8 mi
Museums: 18
Artworks: 15
  • Sojourner Truth Memorial: 1.8 mi
  • Friendship Park Stone Marker: 1.9 mi
  • The Creek: 2.0 mi
  • Compass Pole Monument: 2.2 mi
  • Wind-Driven Rotating Mobile: 2.2 mi
Historic sites: 11
Peaks: 5
Rest areas: 4
  • Battle Creek Rest Area: 4.9 mi
  • Turkeyville Rest Area 722: 8.0 mi
  • Marshall Rest Area: 12.0 mi
  • Galesburg Rest Area: 15.4 mi
Gardens: 3
Beaches: 1
  • Willard Beach: 3.5 mi

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Dixon HallSSE 159°332 m14.9 mi
Jerusalem HillsENE 76°297 m22.5 mi
Holibaugh HillsENE 73°296 m24.6 mi
Stony Point HillSSE 157°286 m16.6 mi
The HogbackNW 312°282 m17.2 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:4519:1619:53
June solstice06:0520:3921:21
September equinox07:2919:0319:40
December solstice08:0716:2617:12

Local time (America/Detroit).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F242636485969737164524030
Precip in1.61.21.72.93.73.43.43.43.23.62.11.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Battle Creek Kellogg AP, 5 mi away.

  • red columbine10 obs
  • Variable Dancer10 obs
  • Eastern Skunk Cabbage8 obs
  • wild geranium7 obs
  • bittersweet nightshade7 obs
  • Cooper's Hawk7 obs
  • common jewelweed6 obs
  • Red Clover6 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/1065686964

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