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Greenleaf Park

Greenleaf Park from directly overhead

Greenleaf Park is a park in Michigan, at a modelled elevation of 193 m. Oakland Heights Landfill stands 388 m to the north-northwest, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is Senior Center Park, a park 0.3 miles away. Woodward Avenue (M-1) - Automotive Heritage Trail passes 2.9 miles off. 14 named summits stand within 25 miles.

How to reach it

Coordinates42.50373, -83.10191

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Museums
  • Red Oaks Nature Center: 0.9 mi
  • Royal Oak Historical Society: 3.1 mi
  • Clawson Historical Museum: 3.2 mi
  • Polish Cultural Center: 3.3 mi
  • Ferndale Historical Society Museum: 3.7 mi
Gardens
  • Church of Christ Community Garden: 1.5 mi
  • Decorative Garden: 2.2 mi
  • The Ferndale Garden Club Community Garden: 3.3 mi
  • Center Line Community Garden: 4.1 mi
  • Grant Park Community Garden: 4.7 mi
Artworks
Historic sites
Attractions
Nature reserves
Beaches: 22
  • Kingswood Stream Beach: 8.6 mi
  • Secret Beach: 10.1 mi
  • Lone Pine Beach: 12.0 mi
  • Belle Isle Beach: 12.7 mi
  • Accretion Beach: 12.8 mi
Peaks: 14
  • Mt Tom: 10.1 mi
  • Mt. Sheldon: 15.1 mi
  • Fibber Mountain: 15.2 mi
  • Bald Mountain: 15.6 mi
  • Oakland Heights Landfill: 15.7 mi
Picnic sites: 13
  • Main picnic site: 3.2 mi
  • Otter picnic site: 3.2 mi
  • PlayVenture picnic site: 3.2 mi
  • Main Picnic Grove: 3.2 mi
  • Red Panda Picnic Site: 3.3 mi
Ghost towns: 2

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Oakland Heights LandfillNNW 332°388 m15.7 mi
Grampian HillsNNW 346°375 m22.0 mi
Pine KnobNW 321°367 m21.4 mi
Bald MountainNNW 335°351 m15.6 mi
Twombly MountainN 2°349 m23.3 mi
Mount JudahNW 325°345 m17.5 mi
Waterford HillNW 312°342 m21.3 mi
Teeple HillWNW 291°336 m24.6 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:3719:0819:45
June solstice05:5620:3121:14
September equinox07:2018:5419:32
December solstice08:0016:1717:03

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, 8 mi away.

  • Eastern Gray Squirrel70 obs
  • Jack-in-the-Pulpit49 obs
  • wild geranium35 obs
  • White-tailed Deer33 obs
  • American pokeweed28 obs
  • bloodroot27 obs
  • yellow trout lily25 obs
  • mayapple25 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/355409754

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