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Home Acres Park

Home Acres Park from directly overhead

Home Acres Park is a park in Michigan, at a modelled elevation of 208 m. Dias Hill stands 311 m to the south, 6.0 miles off. The nearest named place is Veterans' Memorial Park, a park 0.4 miles away. 6 named summits stand within 25 miles.

How to reach it

Coordinates42.88340, -85.66094

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Artworks
  • Abstract Steel Sculpture: 0.9 mi
  • The Cheese: 4.9 mi
  • Rapid Central Bike Parking: 5.2 mi
  • ArtPost Verne Barry Place: 5.4 mi
  • ArtPost Ferguson Apartments: 5.4 mi
Museums: 25
Historic sites: 23
Attractions: 16
Gardens: 13
Peaks: 6
Beaches: 2
  • Millennium Park Beach: 5.8 mi
  • Fishing Beach: 15.7 mi
Covered bridges: 2
Rest areas: 2
  • Zeeland Rest Area 528: 14.1 mi
  • Rockford Rest Area 525: 18.0 mi
Picnic sites: 1
  • Picnic Area: 5.8 mi
Ghost towns: 1

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Dias HillS 175°311 m6.0 mi
Baird HillSSE 156°294 m21.8 mi
Graves HillSSE 153°280 m20.2 mi
Bettes Tower HillN 349°260 m19.2 mi
Beach HillSW 220°242 m21.1 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:4719:1819:55
June solstice06:0520:4221:26
September equinox07:3119:0419:42
December solstice08:1116:2617:12

Local time (America/Detroit).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F242634465867716962503929
Precip in2.72.12.64.14.44.03.33.13.53.73.32.8

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — E Grand Rapids, 5 mi away.

  • mayapple47 obs
  • red deadnettle37 obs
  • common motherwort32 obs
  • Ghost Pipe30 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee25 obs
  • American Toad24 obs
  • Eastern Skunk Cabbage22 obs
  • White-tailed Deer20 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/762554406

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