Bowers Harbor Park
Bowers Harbor Park is a park in Michigan, at a recorded elevation of 189 m. Exodus Hill stands 370 m to the southwest, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Bowers Harbor Boating Access Site, a park 0.3 miles away. 20 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 189 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- Peninsula Township
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Bowers Harbor Boating Access Site: 0.3 mi
- Stickney Estates Common Area: 0.4 mi
- Harbor Reach Common Area: 0.7 mi
- Cherry Harbor Estates Park: 0.8 mi
- Bluewater Bluffs Common Area: 1.5 mi
- Pyatt Lake: The Bill Carls Nature Preserve: 0.8 mi
- Power Island Wilderness Park: 3.0 mi
- Wintergreen Woods Nature Preserve: 5.5 mi
- Leffingwell Forest Preserve: 5.7 mi
- Brinkman Bog Nature Sanctuary: 6.3 mi
- Pluto: 8.8 mi
- Neptune: 9.6 mi
- Guardian: 9.7 mi
- Time to Let Go: 9.8 mi
- Untitled: 9.8 mi
- Hessler Log Cabin: 7.3 mi
- 45th Parallel: 9.3 mi
- Hugh J. Gray Cairn: 9.3 mi
- Anita Hill: 10.3 mi
- 2k Hill: 10.6 mi
- Carpenter Hill: 7.2 mi
- Wayne Hill: 10.3 mi
- Morgan Hill: 10.3 mi
- Fouch Hill: 10.3 mi
- Observation Hill: 10.4 mi
- Guntzviller's Taxidermy and Spirit of the Woods Museum: 5.0 mi
- Elk Rapids Area Historical Museum: 5.4 mi
- Music House Museum: 7.0 mi
- Dennos Museum Center: 9.2 mi
- Eyaawing Museum and Cultural Center: 9.6 mi
- Elk Rapids Iron Company Furnace Ruin: 5.8 mi
- Peninsula Township War Memorial: 7.3 mi
- Larry Cole Hardy: 9.8 mi
- St. Francis A.D. 1887: 10.3 mi
- Grand Traverse Veterans Memorial: 10.8 mi
- Haserot Beach: 5.3 mi
- North Beach: 5.4 mi
- West End Beach: 9.9 mi
- Torch Lake Sand Bar Public Access Point: 10.2 mi
- Public Access: 10.9 mi
- Arrowhead Garden: Iva's North: 5.8 mi
- Archangel Gabriel Community Garden: 7.1 mi
- Challengers Island Garden: 10.0 mi
- Salvation Army Daycare Garden: 10.0 mi
- Hull Park Butterfly Garden: 10.1 mi
- Chuck Wagon: 20.3 mi
- Dodge Spring: 20.8 mi
- Grand Traverse Lighthouse: 22.2 mi
- Jacktown: 23.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Bowers Harbor Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Exodus Hill | SW 227° | 370 m | 12.4 mi |
| Gallagher Hill | SW 232° | 355 m | 12.6 mi |
| Mount Bundy | ENE 76° | 347 m | 23.4 mi |
| Varney Hill | WSW 246° | 337 m | 19.0 mi |
| Warner Hill | WSW 243° | 331 m | 19.4 mi |
| Pierce Hill | SSW 204° | 322 m | 20.2 mi |
| Fouch Hill | WSW 243° | 321 m | 10.3 mi |
| Sugarloaf Mountain | W 276° | 319 m | 14.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:46 | 19:16 | 19:55 |
| June solstice | 05:57 | 20:48 | 21:33 |
| September equinox | 07:30 | 19:03 | 19:42 |
| December solstice | 08:18 | 16:16 | 17:04 |
Local time (America/Detroit).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 23 | 23 | 31 | 42 | 54 | 64 | 69 | 68 | 61 | 50 | 39 | 30 |
| Precip in | 1.8 | 1.2 | 1.4 | 2.8 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 2.8 | 3.3 | 3.6 | 4.0 | 2.4 | 2.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — OLD Mission 3ssw, 2 mi away.
- Green Frog28 obs
- swamp loosestrife24 obs
- winterberry holly19 obs
- Eastern Red-backed Salamander16 obs
- eastern hemlock15 obs
- Blue Dasher15 obs
- American beech14 obs
- pink lady's slipper11 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/231390728
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