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Farr Park

Farr Park from directly overhead

Farr Park is a park in Michigan, at a modelled elevation of 235 m. Bald Hill stands 334 m to the east, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Burke Park, a park 0.2 miles away. The Indiana Lincoln Highway Byway passes 22 miles off. 6 named summits stand within 25 miles.

How to reach it

Coordinates41.98340, -86.11372

Named places within 25 miles

Museums: 37
Artworks: 30
  • Lake of the Woods: 11.2 mi
  • Regeneration Sculpture: 12.5 mi
  • AU Flower Bed: 12.5 mi
  • Wrestlers Sculpture: 12.6 mi
  • Corten Steel Sculpture: 12.6 mi
Historic sites: 18
Gardens: 14
  • Herb Garden: 14.5 mi
  • Lilac Garden: 14.5 mi
  • Memorial Garden: 14.5 mi
  • Butterfly Larva Garden: 14.6 mi
  • Railway Garden: 14.6 mi
Attractions: 11
  • Arboretum: 14.3 mi
  • Nature Preserve: 14.5 mi
  • The Green: 14.5 mi
  • Bauer Terrace: 14.5 mi
  • Hosta Bowl: 14.5 mi
Peaks: 6
Beaches: 3
  • Pleasant Lake East Beach: 12.6 mi
  • Lions Beach: 21.1 mi
  • Weko Beach: 24.3 mi
Rest areas: 2
  • Watervliet Rest Area: 15.1 mi
  • Builders Association-Elkhart,: 24.7 mi
Springs: 1
  • Artesian Flow: 13.7 mi

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Bald HillE 99°334 m15.0 mi
Mount MiseryE 97°317 m17.5 mi
Prospect HillNE 37°244 m18.9 mi
Mount EdwardW 262°242 m24.3 mi
Great Warren DuneW 260°225 m24.6 mi
Thunder MountainNNW 328°213 m22.3 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:4919:2019:57
June solstice06:1020:4221:24
September equinox07:3319:0719:44
December solstice08:1016:3217:17

Local time (America/Detroit).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F242635465867716962503929
Precip in3.12.42.43.74.24.34.14.13.44.32.92.8

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Dowagiac 1 W, under a mile away.

  • common milkweed3 obs
  • Ghost Pipe3 obs
  • American cancer-root3 obs
  • Wabash Pigtoe3 obs
  • butterfly milkweed2 obs
  • American beech2 obs
  • chicken of the woods2 obs
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue2 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/326909613

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