Dorner Lake Recreation Area
Dorner Lake Recreation Area is a park in Michigan, at a modelled elevation of 240 m. Briar Hill stands 517 m to the northeast, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Crystal Lake Township Park, a park 1.6 miles away. 7 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Manistee-Huron National Forests
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Crystal Lake Township Park: 1.6 mi
- Cooley Bridge Roadside Park: 2.0 mi
- Tippy Dam State Recreation Area: 4.1 mi
- Skinner Park: 4.4 mi
- Lower Peninsula Experimental Forest: 7.9 mi
- Bottle House Museum: 12.3 mi
- Kaleva Depot Museum: 12.5 mi
- Luther Museum: 16.7 mi
- Mesick Historical Museum: 17.7 mi
- Our Savior's Historical Museum: 19.4 mi
- Sauble Township Community Gardens: 10.3 mi
- Oliver Family Nature Preserve Trail: 14.0 mi
- Lake Bluff Bird Sanctuary: 19.6 mi
- Portage Point Woods Preserve: 20.2 mi
- Fletcher Creek Nature Preserve: 20.3 mi
- Capper's Peak: 6.8 mi
- Udell Hills: 7.6 mi
- Caberfae Peak: 10.9 mi
- Briar Hill: 16.9 mi
- Briar Hill: 18.7 mi
- Crystal Lake Swimming Area: 1.7 mi
- Healy Lake Beach: 16.5 mi
- Lakeshore Public Access Beach: 19.6 mi
- North Beach: 19.9 mi
- Fifth Avenue Beach: 20.5 mi
- Peterson Bridge North Day Use and Boat Launch Area: 6.7 mi
- Udell Rollways Recreation Area: 8.2 mi
- Hoags Lake Day Use Area: 13.4 mi
- SS City of Milwaukee: 19.3 mi
- United States Coast Guard Cutter Acacia: 19.3 mi
- Adventure Island: 23.8 mi
- Notipekago: 23.3 mi
- Marlborough Cement Factory: 24.1 mi
- Tustin Rest Area 305: 23.5 mi
- Benzonia Roadside Park: 24.5 mi
- Old Facefull: 21.9 mi
- Stockade Labyrinth: 22.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Dorner Lake Recreation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Briar Hill | NE 48° | 517 m | 16.9 mi |
| Caberfae Peak | ENE 77° | 452 m | 10.9 mi |
| Briar Hill | NE 44° | 410 m | 18.7 mi |
| Crystal Mountain | N 352° | 332 m | 22.4 mi |
| North Hills | N 358° | 299 m | 24.5 mi |
| Capper's Peak | W 263° | 298 m | 6.8 mi |
| Udell Hills | W 270° | 237 m | 7.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:48 | 19:18 | 19:56 |
| June solstice | 06:01 | 20:47 | 21:32 |
| September equinox | 07:32 | 19:05 | 19:43 |
| December solstice | 08:17 | 16:21 | 17:08 |
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 | 20 | 22 | 30 | 42 | 54 | 64 | 67 | 66 | 59 | 47 | 35 | 25 |
| Precip in | 2.9 | 2.0 | 2.3 | 3.7 | 3.6 | 3.5 | 3.3 | 2.8 | 3.6 | 4.2 | 3.6 | 2.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Wellston 1N, 2 mi away.
- Ghost Pipe6 obs
- American cancer-root5 obs
- American white waterlily4 obs
- hoary alyssum4 obs
- spotted horsemint4 obs
- northern starflower4 obs
- eastern hemlock3 obs
- common bracken3 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/893352374
Day trips start here
- Cadillac · 27 mi
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