Park · Michigan
Bay City State Park
Bay City State Park is a park in Michigan, at a modelled elevation of 177 m. The nearest named place is Bayside Park, a park 1.5 miles away. River Road Scenic Byway passes 54 miles off.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Michigan Department of Natural Resources
How to reach it
Coordinates43.66981, -83.90647
- 54.3 mi off the River Road Scenic Byway, National
Named places within 25 miles
Parks
- Bayside Park: 1.5 mi
- Patterson Road Park: 3.4 mi
- Saginaw River Mouth Boating Access Site: 3.4 mi
- Joseph M. Tromble/Banks Park: 3.8 mi
- Defoe Park: 4.2 mi
Museums: 22
- USS Edson: 4.3 mi
- Bay County Historical Society: 5.3 mi
- Antique Toy and Firehouse Museum Pump Station No. 3: 5.6 mi
- Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum: 11.1 mi
- Mid-Michigan Children's Museum: 16.4 mi
Gardens: 14
- Circle Area Community Garden: 16.2 mi
- Saginaw Art Museum Garden: 17.1 mi
- Snake Creek Overlook: 17.4 mi
- Dow Gardens Welcome Center: 17.5 mi
- Wedding Peninsula: 17.5 mi
Historic sites: 8
- Veterans Park War Memorial: 5.0 mi
- Vietnam Veterans Monument: 5.0 mi
- Al Kaner: 8.6 mi
- Larkin Baseball Memorial: 15.9 mi
- Feldt-Houthoofd Waterfall: 20.3 mi
Artworks: 7
- Annual Ring: 11.0 mi
- I LOVE SVSU: 11.1 mi
- Leaping Gazelle Fountain: 11.2 mi
- Dolphan Statue: 13.9 mi
- Founders Circle: 17.6 mi
Attractions: 7
- Wooden Jump: 17.3 mi
- Rope Swing: 18.1 mi
- Heritage Park: 18.2 mi
- Standish Historic Train: 21.8 mi
- Wildlife Blind: 23.4 mi
Nature reserves: 6
- Fraser Township State Game Area: 9.6 mi
- Fraser Township No. 1 State Game Area: 12.3 mi
- Pinconning Township State Game Area: 15.2 mi
- Chippewa Nature Center: 19.4 mi
- Averill Reserve: 21.9 mi
Rest areas: 2
- Linwood Rest Area 626: 8.5 mi
- Bay City Rest Area 605: 9.9 mi
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:40 | 19:10 | 19:48 |
| June solstice | 05:55 | 20:38 | 21:22 |
| September equinox | 07:23 | 18:57 | 19:35 |
| December solstice | 08:07 | 16:15 | 17:02 |
Local time (America/Detroit).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 23 | 24 | 33 | 45 | 58 | 68 | 72 | 70 | 63 | 51 | 39 | 29 |
| Precip in | 1.7 | 1.7 | 1.9 | 3.6 | 3.4 | 3.6 | 2.9 | 3.8 | 3.2 | 3.0 | 2.4 | 2.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Essexville, 5 mi away.
- Eastern Chipmunk92 obs
- White-tailed Deer81 obs
- Red-winged Blackbird71 obs
- Great Egret59 obs
- Ring-billed Gull55 obs
- Great Blue Heron53 obs
- Black-crowned Night Heron53 obs
- Eastern Fox Squirrel53 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.
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