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David Oppenheim Memorial Park

David Oppenheim Memorial Park from directly overhead

David Oppenheim Memorial Park is a park in Michigan, at a recorded elevation of 196 m. Oakland Heights Landfill stands 388 m to the north-northwest, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is Garbutt Park, a park 0.4 miles away. Woodward Avenue (M-1) - Automotive Heritage Trail runs past it. 12 named summits stand within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
196 m
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates42.45184, -83.13332
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Museums
Historic sites
Gardens: 60
  • The Ferndale Garden Club Community Garden: 1.2 mi
  • Grant Park Community Garden: 1.2 mi
  • Palmer Park Urban Educational Garden: 2.0 mi
  • Church of Christ Community Garden: 2.6 mi
  • Decorative Garden: 4.2 mi
Artworks
Attractions
  • Polk Penguin Conservation Center: 2.0 mi
  • Cotton Family Wetlands Boardwalk: 2.0 mi
  • Jane and Frank Warchol Beaver Habitat: 2.0 mi
  • Vultures: 2.1 mi
  • Tree Kangaroo: 2.1 mi
Nature reserves
  • Lincoln Woods Nature Preserve: 4.3 mi
  • Quickstad Park: 5.1 mi
  • Bauervic Woods Nature Preserve: 5.8 mi
  • Horsetail Woods: 6.9 mi
  • Hunters Lane Woods: 7.0 mi
Beaches: 21
  • Kingswood Stream Beach: 10.0 mi
  • Belle Isle Beach: 10.8 mi
  • Hipster Beach: 11.5 mi
  • Lone Pine Beach: 12.4 mi
  • Accretion Beach: 13.0 mi
Picnic sites: 13
  • PlayVenture picnic site: 2.0 mi
  • Main picnic site: 2.0 mi
  • Main Picnic Grove: 2.0 mi
  • Otter picnic site: 2.0 mi
  • Wolverine picnic site: 2.2 mi
Peaks: 12
  • Mt Tom: 9.7 mi
  • Halsted Hill: 15.1 mi
  • Oakland Heights Landfill: 18.4 mi
  • Bald Mountain: 18.4 mi
  • Mt. Sheldon: 18.7 mi
Ghost towns: 2
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Oakland Heights LandfillNNW 342°388 m18.4 mi
Pine KnobNNW 329°367 m23.4 mi
Bald MountainNNW 345°351 m18.4 mi
Mount JudahNNW 335°345 m19.8 mi
Waterford HillNW 322°342 m22.8 mi
Teeple HillWNW 300°336 m24.7 mi
Peak 1083WNW 301°330 m24.7 mi
Fibber MountainN 3°302 m18.8 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:3719:0819:45
June solstice05:5620:3121:14
September equinox07:2118:5519:32
December solstice08:0016:1817:03

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, 7 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Black Swallowtail62 obs
  • Monarch53 obs
  • Western Honey Bee47 obs
  • American pokeweed47 obs
  • American Robin44 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee43 obs
  • Ailanthus Webworm Moth42 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel40 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/314104089

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