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Fulton State Game Area

Fulton State Game Area from directly overhead

Fulton State Game Area is a park in Michigan, at a recorded elevation of 271 m. Dixon Hall stands 332 m to the east, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Nottawaseppi Band of the Huron Potawatomi Reservation, a nature reserve 2.8 miles away. 3 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What the record says

Elevation
271 m

What to expect

Operated by
Michigan Department of Natural Resources
Access
Yes

How to reach it

Coordinates42.10239, -85.31829

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Nature reserves: 34
Attractions: 33
  • Old Silo: 14.0 mi
  • Granny's Garden: 14.3 mi
  • Frog Holler: 14.3 mi
  • Cardiac Bypass: 14.3 mi
  • Deliverance: 14.4 mi
Museums: 17
Artworks: 13
  • Sojourner Truth Memorial: 16.4 mi
  • The Creek: 16.5 mi
  • Wind-Driven Rotating Mobile: 16.6 mi
  • Friendship Park Stone Marker: 16.6 mi
  • Compass Pole Monument: 16.6 mi
Historic sites: 9
Rest areas: 6
  • Battle Creek Rest Area: 12.2 mi
  • Galesburg Rest Area: 13.3 mi
  • Turkeyville Rest Area 722: 22.9 mi
  • Coldwater Welcome Center 716: 24.1 mi
  • Marshall Rest Area: 24.2 mi
Gardens: 6
  • God's Garden: 14.9 mi
  • Community Garden: 17.7 mi
  • Bell's Beer Garden: 18.9 mi
  • People's Plot: 19.6 mi
  • People's Plot: 19.6 mi
Peaks: 3
Beaches: 1
  • Willard Beach: 14.1 mi
Ghost towns: 1

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Dixon HallE 88°332 m14.2 mi
Colon MountainSSW 194°287 m11.2 mi
Stony Point HillE 93°286 m15.3 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:4619:1719:54
June solstice06:0620:3921:21
September equinox07:2919:0319:40
December solstice08:0716:2817:13

Local time (America/Detroit).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F252737496069737163524030
Precip in1.71.32.03.13.73.23.43.73.33.72.51.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Kalamazoo Battle Creek Intl AP, 15 mi away.

  • Dutchman's breeches5 obs
  • yellow trout lily3 obs
  • Indian tobacco2 obs
  • Least Sandpiper1 obs
  • Bald Eagle1 obs
  • Painted Turtle1 obs
  • American pokeweed1 obs
  • bloodroot1 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/999067481

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