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Hunt Playground

Hunt Playground from directly overhead

Hunt Playground is a park in Michigan, at a recorded elevation of 193 m. Oakland Heights Landfill stands 388 m to the north-northwest, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is State Fair Park, a park 0.3 miles away. Woodward Avenue (M-1) - Automotive Heritage Trail passes 0.6 miles off. 10 named summits stand within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
193 m
Getting there

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Coordinates42.44238, -83.10828
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • State Fair Park: 0.3 mi
  • Keating-State Fair Park: 0.4 mi
  • Sylvester Tot Lot: 0.7 mi
  • Knudsen Park: 0.7 mi
  • Coventry Park: 0.7 mi
Historic sites
  • Michigan War Veterans Memorial: 0.6 mi
  • Michael Jackson Cenotaph: 0.7 mi
  • Woodward: 2.6 mi
  • Statue of Pope John Paul II: 3.9 mi
  • Pope John Paul II: 4.5 mi
Artworks
Gardens: 60
  • Palmer Park Urban Educational Garden: 1.3 mi
  • The Ferndale Garden Club Community Garden: 2.5 mi
  • Grant Park Community Garden: 2.6 mi
  • Church of Christ Community Garden: 3.3 mi
  • Decorative Garden: 3.7 mi
Museums
Attractions
  • Polk Penguin Conservation Center: 3.2 mi
  • Cotton Family Wetlands Boardwalk: 3.3 mi
  • Jane and Frank Warchol Beaver Habitat: 3.3 mi
  • Vultures: 3.5 mi
  • Tree Kangaroo: 3.5 mi
Nature reserves
  • Lincoln Woods Nature Preserve: 5.7 mi
  • Quickstad Park: 6.1 mi
  • Bauervic Woods Nature Preserve: 7.1 mi
  • Horsetail Woods: 8.1 mi
  • Hunters Lane Woods: 8.3 mi
Beaches: 20
  • Belle Isle Beach: 9.5 mi
  • Hipster Beach: 10.1 mi
  • Kingswood Stream Beach: 11.3 mi
  • Accretion Beach: 11.6 mi
  • Little Beach: 11.6 mi
Picnic sites: 11
  • PlayVenture picnic site: 3.2 mi
  • Main picnic site: 3.3 mi
  • Main Picnic Grove: 3.3 mi
  • Otter picnic site: 3.3 mi
  • Red Panda Picnic Site: 3.5 mi
Peaks: 10
  • Mt Tom: 11.2 mi
  • Halsted Hill: 16.5 mi
  • Mt. Sheldon: 19.3 mi
  • Bald Mountain: 19.4 mi
  • Oakland Heights Landfill: 19.4 mi
Ghost towns: 2
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Oakland Heights LandfillNNW 339°388 m19.4 mi
Pine KnobNNW 328°367 m24.7 mi
Bald MountainNNW 341°351 m19.4 mi
Mount JudahNNW 332°345 m21.0 mi
Waterford HillNW 320°342 m24.1 mi
Fibber MountainN 359°302 m19.5 mi
Halsted HillWNW 285°297 m16.5 mi
Mt. SheldonN 359°290 m19.3 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 solstice07:5916:1817:03

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, 6 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Monarch54 obs
  • Black Swallowtail49 obs
  • Peck's Skipper42 obs
  • Western Honey Bee41 obs
  • Red Admiral37 obs
  • American pokeweed36 obs
  • Ailanthus Webworm Moth35 obs
  • American Robin34 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/288402158

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