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Fife Lake Area Park

Fife Lake Area Park from directly overhead

Fife Lake Area Park is a park in Michigan, at a recorded elevation of 321 m. Briar Hill stands 517 m to the southwest, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Lakeside Park, a park 0.4 miles away. 29 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What the record says

Elevation
321 m

How to reach it

Coordinates44.57499, -85.34063

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Lakeside Park: 0.4 mi
  • Fife Lake South Boat Launch: 1.1 mi
  • Boardman Township Park: 5.5 mi
  • Manistee River Roadside Park: 6.9 mi
  • Woods and Waters Common Area: 8.5 mi
Peaks: 29
Artworks: 24
Museums: 21
Attractions: 17
  • Hill to the Lake: 9.9 mi
  • Woodchip Hill: 12.0 mi
  • The Wall: 12.0 mi
  • S-Curve: 12.2 mi
  • 6k Hill: 12.5 mi
Gardens: 11
Historic sites: 9
Beaches: 8
  • Torch Lake Sand Bar Public Access Point: 19.1 mi
  • Public Access: 19.4 mi
  • West End Beach: 19.8 mi
  • Archie Valleau Landing: 21.4 mi
  • Public Access: 21.5 mi

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Briar HillSW 229°517 m22.1 mi
Cleary HillE 86°446 m22.6 mi
BaldyESE 110°427 m16.1 mi
Waldo HillE 87°424 m22.1 mi
Richards HillE 86°418 m22.2 mi
Falk HillE 85°418 m23.6 mi
Allen HillESE 112°417 m16.6 mi
Beecher HillE 84°412 m22.4 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:4519:1519:54
June solstice05:5720:4621:31
September equinox07:2919:0219:41
December solstice08:1616:1617:05

Local time (America/Detroit).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F182027405363676559463524
Precip in2.31.71.93.33.43.23.53.53.33.92.92.3

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Fife Lake 2wnw, 1 mi away.

  • Green Frog5 obs
  • Lemon Cuckoo Bumble Bee4 obs
  • Common Yellowthroat3 obs
  • Eastern Chipmunk3 obs
  • American white waterlily3 obs
  • mapleleaf viburnum3 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee3 obs
  • Tricolored Bumble Bee3 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/486794273

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