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Brys Park

Brys Park from directly overhead

Brys Park is a park in Michigan, at a modelled elevation of 181 m. Oakland Heights Landfill stands 388 m to the northwest, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Danbury Park, a park 0.4 miles away. Woodward Avenue (M-1) - Automotive Heritage Trail passes 9.6 miles off. 5 named summits stand within 25 miles.

How to reach it

Coordinates42.45297, -82.91766

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Danbury Park: 0.4 mi
  • Fairlane Park: 0.6 mi
  • Chene-Trombley Park: 0.6 mi
  • Frederick Park: 0.8 mi
  • Jules De Porre Park: 1.0 mi
Museums: 60
  • Cook Schoolhouse: 1.4 mi
  • Michigan Military Technical & Historical Society Museum: 2.1 mi
  • The Baumgartner House Museum And Fraser Depot Visitor Center: 5.5 mi
  • Pewabic Pottery: 7.1 mi
  • Pewabic Pottery exhibitions: 7.1 mi
Attractions
Historic sites
Artworks
Nature reserves: 53
Gardens: 52
Beaches: 10
  • Accretion Beach: 3.4 mi
  • Little Beach: 3.7 mi
  • Crescent Sail Club Beach (Private): 3.8 mi
  • Hipster Beach: 7.4 mi
  • Belle Isle Beach: 8.1 mi
Picnic sites: 10
  • PlayVenture picnic site: 12.1 mi
  • Main picnic site: 12.1 mi
  • Main Picnic Grove: 12.1 mi
  • Otter picnic site: 12.1 mi
  • Red Panda Picnic Site: 12.3 mi
Peaks: 5
  • Mt Tom: 20.0 mi
  • Mt. Sheldon: 21.1 mi
  • Fibber Mountain: 21.2 mi
  • Bald Mountain: 23.7 mi
  • Oakland Heights Landfill: 24.1 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Rest areas: 1
  • Former Richmond Rest Area 910 - CLOSED: 22.4 mi

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Oakland Heights LandfillNW 316°388 m24.1 mi
Bald MountainNW 318°351 m23.7 mi
Fibber MountainNNW 332°302 m21.2 mi
Mt. SheldonNNW 332°290 m21.1 mi
Mt TomWNW 284°257 m20.0 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:3619:0719:44
June solstice05:5520:3021:13
September equinox07:2018:5419:31
December solstice07:5916:1717:02

Local time (America/Detroit).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F242634465768727163514030
Precip in2.12.22.63.43.93.63.43.53.32.82.82.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Grosse Pointe Farms, 3 mi away.

  • Western Honey Bee16 obs
  • Monarch12 obs
  • Black Swallowtail12 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel11 obs
  • bittersweet nightshade11 obs
  • Tan Jumping Spider11 obs
  • Peck's Skipper10 obs
  • Canada Goose8 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/542252186

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