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Beaver Creek Park

Beaver Creek Park from directly overhead

Beaver Creek Park is a park in Michigan, at a modelled elevation of 191 m. Oakland Heights Landfill stands 388 m to the northwest, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is (South) James C. Nelson Park, a park 0.8 miles away. Woodward Avenue (M-1) - Automotive Heritage Trail passes 6.2 miles off. 12 named summits stand within 25 miles.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
City of Sterling Heights

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates42.54413, -83.06259
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • (South) James C. Nelson Park: 0.8 mi
  • Puffin Park: 0.8 mi
  • (South) James C. Nelson Park: 0.9 mi
  • (North) James C. Nelson Park: 1.0 mi
  • Warren Community Park: 1.1 mi
Museums
Historic sites
Artworks
Gardens
  • Decorative Garden: 4.0 mi
  • Friendship Community Garden: 4.3 mi
  • Center Line Community Garden: 4.5 mi
  • Hope Garden: 4.6 mi
  • Church of Christ Community Garden: 4.9 mi
Attractions
  • Abandoned Dragline Excavator: 4.5 mi
  • Polk Penguin Conservation Center: 6.4 mi
  • Jane and Frank Warchol Beaver Habitat: 6.5 mi
  • Cotton Family Wetlands Boardwalk: 6.6 mi
  • Birmingham Ice Arena: 6.6 mi
Nature reserves
Beaches: 22
  • Secret Beach: 7.1 mi
  • Kingswood Stream Beach: 9.4 mi
  • Eastwood Beach: 12.5 mi
  • Baypoint Beach: 12.8 mi
  • Accretion Beach: 13.0 mi
Peaks: 12
  • Mt Tom: 12.1 mi
  • Mt. Sheldon: 12.6 mi
  • Fibber Mountain: 12.7 mi
  • Bald Mountain: 14.2 mi
  • Oakland Heights Landfill: 14.5 mi
Picnic sites: 11
  • Otter picnic site: 6.5 mi
  • Main picnic site: 6.5 mi
  • Main Picnic Grove: 6.5 mi
  • PlayVenture picnic site: 6.5 mi
  • Red Panda Picnic Site: 6.6 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Rest areas: 1
  • Former Richmond Rest Area 910 - CLOSED: 22.2 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Oakland Heights LandfillNW 320°388 m14.5 mi
Grampian HillsNNW 339°375 m19.9 mi
Pine KnobNW 312°367 m20.8 mi
Bald MountainNW 323°351 m14.2 mi
Twombly MountainN 356°349 m20.5 mi
Mount JudahNW 314°345 m16.7 mi
Waterford HillWNW 303°342 m21.1 mi
Fibber MountainNNW 349°302 m12.7 mi
Conditions

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 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, 10 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel25 obs
  • White-tailed Deer22 obs
  • American Robin18 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee18 obs
  • Monarch17 obs
  • Bold Jumping Spider15 obs
  • Northern Cardinal14 obs
  • common buckthorn13 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/476124921

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