Esch Park
Esch Park is a park in Michigan, at a modelled elevation of 251 m. Mt. Brighton Main Peak (South) stands 405 m to the north-northwest, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Stone School Park, a park 0.3 miles away. Monroe Street (M125) passes 27 miles off. 14 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What to expect
- Operated by
- City of Ann Arbor
How to reach it
- 26.5 mi off the Monroe Street (M125)
Named places within 25 miles
- Stone School Park: 0.3 mi
- The Ponds Park: 0.4 mi
- Brookside Park: 0.5 mi
- Clinton Park: 0.6 mi
- Woodbury Park: 0.7 mi
- Molin Nature Area: 0.5 mi
- Redbud Nature Area: 1.6 mi
- Berkshire Creek Nature Area: 1.7 mi
- Malletts Creek Nature Area: 1.8 mi
- Pioneer Woods Nature Area: 1.9 mi
- Decode: 1.5 mi
- Southeast Tower: 1.6 mi
- Northeast Tower (Tisch): 1.7 mi
- Southwest Tower (Levine): 1.7 mi
- Northwest Tower (Ross): 1.8 mi
- The Rock: 1.7 mi
- The Lady of the Garden: 1.9 mi
- Beal Books: 2.0 mi
- Daedalus: 2.0 mi
- Angry Neptune, Salacia, Strider: 2.0 mi
- Terhune Pioneer Memorial Park: 2.0 mi
- Professors’ Monument: 2.0 mi
- Native American Land Gift: 2.2 mi
- Michigan League: 2.3 mi
- Holocaust Memorial: 2.3 mi
- Forest Hills Cooperative Community Garden: 1.4 mi
- Pollinator Garden: 2.0 mi
- Community Gardens: 2.0 mi
- Edible Garden: 2.0 mi
- Eula D. Marcks Garden: 2.3 mi
- Peter S. Fuss Pavilion: 3.2 mi
- Picnic Grove: 4.8 mi
- Pineview Picnic Area: 12.4 mi
- Activity Center Picnic Area: 12.7 mi
- Oak Meadows Picnic Area: 13.1 mi
- Cobblestone Farm: 0.8 mi
- UM Research Museums Center: 0.8 mi
- University of Michigan Museum of Art: 2.0 mi
- Kelsey Museum of Archaeology: 2.1 mi
- University of Michigan Museum of Natural History: 2.2 mi
- Prospect Hill: 12.1 mi
- Peach Mountain: 14.8 mi
- Peach Mountain Peak (1040 Feet): 14.9 mi
- Riley Hill: 19.1 mi
- Stofer Hill: 19.3 mi
- Orchard - View Colony Beach: 18.2 mi
- Pine Creek Ridge Lodge Beach: 19.4 mi
- Martindale Beach: 19.8 mi
- Maple Beach: 20.3 mi
- Twin Sun Lakes Common Area to Marina & Swim Area: 23.5 mi
- Northfield Church Rest Area 814: 7.5 mi
- Belleville Rest Area: 10.7 mi
- Chelsea Rest Area: 14.3 mi
- Carleton Rest Area 826: 23.7 mi
- Rawsonville: 9.2 mi
- The Bluffs: 22.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Esch Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mt. Brighton Main Peak (South) | NNW 348° | 405 m | 20.4 mi |
| Mt. Brighton SubPeak (North) | NNW 348° | 399 m | 20.6 mi |
| Cassidy Kame | WNW 292° | 344 m | 19.5 mi |
| Big Kame | WNW 295° | 328 m | 20.3 mi |
| Sugarloaf Hill | WNW 288° | 327 m | 20.5 mi |
| Stofer Hill | WNW 297° | 321 m | 19.3 mi |
| Prospect Hill | NW 304° | 318 m | 19.9 mi |
| Riley Hill | WNW 294° | 317 m | 19.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:39 | 19:10 | 19:47 |
| June solstice | 05:59 | 20:33 | 21:16 |
| September equinox | 07:23 | 18:57 | 19:34 |
| December solstice | 08:01 | 16:21 | 17:06 |
Local time (America/Detroit).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 24 | 26 | 35 | 46 | 58 | 68 | 72 | 70 | 62 | 51 | 39 | 29 |
| Precip in | 2.8 | 2.4 | 2.8 | 3.3 | 3.8 | 4.2 | 3.9 | 3.3 | 3.0 | 2.9 | 2.7 | 2.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — ANN Arbor SE, 2 mi away.
- common buckthorn225 obs
- ground-ivy225 obs
- white clover205 obs
- Amur honeysuckle189 obs
- ribwort plantain187 obs
- Eastern Fox Squirrel176 obs
- chicory146 obs
- American Robin140 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/330460329
Day trips start here
- Maybee · 20 mi
- Carleton · 22 mi
- Monroe County · 25 mi
- Monroe · 28 mi
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