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Garbutt Park

Garbutt Park from directly overhead

Garbutt Park is a park in Michigan, at a recorded elevation of 197 m. Oakland Heights Landfill stands 388 m to the north-northwest, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Marie Park, a park 0.3 miles away. Woodward Avenue (M-1) - Automotive Heritage Trail passes 0.6 miles off. 12 named summits stand within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
197 m
Visiting

What to expect

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates42.44741, -83.13867
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Museums
Historic sites
Gardens: 60
  • Grant Park Community Garden: 1.0 mi
  • The Ferndale Garden Club Community Garden: 1.4 mi
  • Palmer Park Urban Educational Garden: 1.8 mi
  • Church of Christ Community Garden: 3.0 mi
  • Decorative Garden: 4.6 mi
Artworks
Attractions
  • Cotton Family Wetlands Boardwalk: 2.2 mi
  • Polk Penguin Conservation Center: 2.2 mi
  • Jane and Frank Warchol Beaver Habitat: 2.2 mi
  • Vultures: 2.2 mi
  • Tree Kangaroo: 2.3 mi
Nature reserves
  • Lincoln Woods Nature Preserve: 4.2 mi
  • Quickstad Park: 5.3 mi
  • Bauervic Woods Nature Preserve: 5.5 mi
  • Horsetail Woods: 6.6 mi
  • Hunters Lane Woods: 6.7 mi
Beaches: 21
  • Kingswood Stream Beach: 10.1 mi
  • Belle Isle Beach: 10.8 mi
  • Hipster Beach: 11.5 mi
  • Lone Pine Beach: 12.4 mi
  • Accretion Beach: 13.2 mi
Picnic sites: 14
  • PlayVenture picnic site: 2.1 mi
  • Main picnic site: 2.1 mi
  • Main Picnic Grove: 2.2 mi
  • Otter picnic site: 2.2 mi
  • Wolverine picnic site: 2.3 mi
Peaks: 12
  • Mt Tom: 9.7 mi
  • Halsted Hill: 14.9 mi
  • Oakland Heights Landfill: 18.6 mi
  • Bald Mountain: 18.6 mi
  • Mt. Sheldon: 19.0 mi
Ghost towns: 2
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Oakland Heights LandfillNNW 343°388 m18.6 mi
Pine KnobNNW 330°367 m23.6 mi
Bald MountainNNW 346°351 m18.6 mi
Mount JudahNNW 336°345 m20.0 mi
Waterford HillNW 323°342 m22.9 mi
Teeple HillWNW 301°336 m24.6 mi
Peak 1083WNW 301°330 m24.6 mi
Fibber MountainN 4°302 m19.2 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:3719:0819:45
June solstice05:5620:3121:14
September equinox07:2118:5519:32
December solstice08:0016:1817:03

Local time (America/Detroit).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F262837485969747265534131
Precip in2.12.12.53.23.73.73.43.53.02.82.62.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Dearborn #2, 7 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Black Swallowtail56 obs
  • Monarch51 obs
  • American pokeweed43 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee41 obs
  • Western Honey Bee40 obs
  • Ailanthus Webworm Moth39 obs
  • American Robin38 obs
  • Asian Lady Beetle34 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/554336192

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