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Green Acres Park

Green Acres Park from directly overhead

Green Acres Park is a park in Michigan, at a recorded elevation of 193 m. Oakland Heights Landfill stands 388 m to the north-northwest, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is Lennon Memorial Park, a park 0.4 miles away. Woodward Avenue (M-1) - Automotive Heritage Trail passes 1.3 miles off. 11 named summits stand within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
193 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates42.47029, -83.11211
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Gardens: 60
  • Church of Christ Community Garden: 1.4 mi
  • The Ferndale Garden Club Community Garden: 1.6 mi
  • Decorative Garden: 2.6 mi
  • Grant Park Community Garden: 2.7 mi
  • Palmer Park Urban Educational Garden: 3.1 mi
Museums
Attractions
Artworks
Historic sites
Nature reserves
  • Quickstad Park: 4.3 mi
  • Lincoln Woods Nature Preserve: 5.0 mi
  • Bauervic Woods Nature Preserve: 6.9 mi
  • Hunters Lane Woods: 8.0 mi
  • Horsetail Woods: 8.1 mi
Beaches: 21
  • Kingswood Stream Beach: 9.7 mi
  • Belle Isle Beach: 11.0 mi
  • Hipster Beach: 11.6 mi
  • Accretion Beach: 12.3 mi
  • Little Beach: 12.4 mi
Picnic sites: 13
  • PlayVenture picnic site: 2.1 mi
  • Main picnic site: 2.1 mi
  • Main Picnic Grove: 2.1 mi
  • Otter picnic site: 2.1 mi
  • Red Panda Picnic Site: 2.4 mi
Peaks: 11
  • Mt Tom: 10.2 mi
  • Halsted Hill: 15.9 mi
  • Mt. Sheldon: 17.4 mi
  • Bald Mountain: 17.5 mi
  • Fibber Mountain: 17.5 mi
Ghost towns: 2
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Oakland Heights LandfillNNW 337°388 m17.6 mi
Grampian HillsN 349°375 m24.2 mi
Pine KnobNW 325°367 m23.0 mi
Bald MountainNNW 340°351 m17.5 mi
Mount JudahNNW 330°345 m19.2 mi
Waterford HillNW 318°342 m22.5 mi
Fibber MountainN 360°302 m17.5 mi
Halsted HillW 279°297 m15.9 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:3719:0819:45
June solstice05:5620:3121:14
September equinox07:2018:5519:32
December solstice07:5916:1717:03

Local time (America/Detroit).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F262837486070747365534132
Precip in1.41.42.02.83.53.13.23.13.12.32.21.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Detroit City AP, 7 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Northern Cardinal412 obs
  • American Goldfinch388 obs
  • Ruby-throated Hummingbird378 obs
  • Dark-eyed Junco367 obs
  • Blue Jay342 obs
  • Downy Woodpecker338 obs
  • Baltimore Oriole325 obs
  • Monarch320 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/469257180

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