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Fairfield Park

Fairfield Park from directly overhead

Fairfield Park is a park in Michigan, at a modelled elevation of 193 m. Oakland Heights Landfill stands 388 m to the northwest, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Carpathia Park, a park 0.4 miles away. Woodward Avenue (M-1) - Automotive Heritage Trail passes 7.3 miles off. 12 named summits stand within 25 miles.

How to reach it

Coordinates42.57464, -83.06538

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Museums
Nature reserves
Attractions
  • Abandoned Dragline Excavator: 3.1 mi
  • Burgess-Shadbush Nature Center: 5.3 mi
  • Birmingham Ice Arena: 6.9 mi
  • Polk Penguin Conservation Center: 8.0 mi
  • Big Idea Chair: 8.0 mi
Historic sites
Gardens
Beaches: 22
  • Secret Beach: 5.0 mi
  • Kingswood Stream Beach: 9.0 mi
  • Eastwood Beach: 10.4 mi
  • Baypoint Beach: 10.7 mi
  • Lone Pine Beach: 13.1 mi
Picnic sites: 12
  • Otter picnic site: 8.1 mi
  • Main picnic site: 8.1 mi
  • Main Picnic Grove: 8.1 mi
  • PlayVenture picnic site: 8.1 mi
  • Red Panda Picnic Site: 8.2 mi
Peaks: 12
  • Mt. Sheldon: 10.5 mi
  • Fibber Mountain: 10.6 mi
  • Mt Tom: 12.4 mi
  • Bald Mountain: 12.5 mi
  • Oakland Heights Landfill: 12.9 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Rest areas: 2
  • Former Richmond Rest Area 910 - CLOSED: 21.1 mi
  • Clarkston Rest Area 904: 24.3 mi

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Oakland Heights LandfillNW 314°388 m12.9 mi
Grampian HillsNNW 337°375 m17.9 mi
Pine KnobNW 307°367 m19.3 mi
Bald MountainNW 318°351 m12.5 mi
Twombly MountainN 356°349 m18.4 mi
Mount JudahNW 309°345 m15.2 mi
Waterford HillWNW 298°342 m19.9 mi
Fibber MountainNNW 347°302 m10.6 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:3619:0719:45
June solstice05:5620:3121:14
September equinox07:2018:5419:31
December solstice08:0016:1717:03

Local time (America/Detroit).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F242635475968737164514030
Precip in2.21.92.22.93.83.33.13.22.92.93.12.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Pontiac Wwtp, 11 mi away.

  • Eastern Gray Squirrel33 obs
  • American Robin25 obs
  • Northern Cardinal20 obs
  • Mallard15 obs
  • Eastern Cottontail13 obs
  • Monarch13 obs
  • common buckthorn12 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee12 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/179048620

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