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Jaycee Park

Jaycee Park from directly overhead

Jaycee Park is a park in Michigan, at a modelled elevation of 188 m. Oakland Heights Landfill stands 388 m to the west-northwest, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Farmstead Park, a park 0.5 miles away. Woodward Avenue (M-1) - Automotive Heritage Trail passes 10 miles off. 13 named summits stand within 25 miles.

How to reach it

Coordinates42.60455, -83.01680

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Farmstead Park: 0.5 mi
  • Dodge Park: 0.9 mi
  • Clinton River Park: 0.9 mi
  • Fairview Park: 1.0 mi
  • Charlemagne Park: 1.2 mi
Attractions
Artworks
Museums: 60
  • Upton House Museum: 0.9 mi
  • Packard Proving Grounds Historic Site: 4.1 mi
  • Polish Cultural Center: 5.3 mi
  • Michigan Transit Museum: 6.4 mi
  • The Baumgartner House Museum And Fraser Depot Visitor Center: 6.7 mi
Historic sites
Nature reserves
Gardens: 59
Beaches: 19
  • Secret Beach: 3.5 mi
  • Eastwood Beach: 9.0 mi
  • Baypoint Beach: 9.4 mi
  • Kingswood Stream Beach: 11.7 mi
  • Accretion Beach: 15.1 mi
Peaks: 13
  • Mt. Sheldon: 9.5 mi
  • Fibber Mountain: 9.6 mi
  • Bald Mountain: 13.0 mi
  • Oakland Heights Landfill: 13.6 mi
  • Mt Tom: 15.4 mi
Picnic sites: 11
  • Southdale Picnic Area: 8.9 mi
  • Otter picnic site: 11.2 mi
  • Main picnic site: 11.2 mi
  • Main Picnic Grove: 11.2 mi
  • PlayVenture picnic site: 11.2 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Rest areas: 2
  • Former Richmond Rest Area 910 - CLOSED: 17.9 mi
  • Adair Rest Area 909: 22.2 mi

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Oakland Heights LandfillWNW 301°388 m13.6 mi
Mount ChristieNW 321°387 m24.9 mi
Grampian HillsNNW 327°375 m17.3 mi
Pine KnobWNW 298°367 m20.3 mi
Bald MountainWNW 304°351 m13.0 mi
Twombly MountainNNW 348°349 m16.7 mi
Mount JudahWNW 297°345 m16.2 mi
Waterford HillWNW 290°342 m21.3 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:3619:0719:44
June solstice05:5520:3121:14
September equinox07:2018:5419:31
December solstice08:0016:1617:02

Local time (America/Detroit).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F252635465768727063524030
Precip in2.21.72.43.43.63.33.83.73.22.82.62.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — MT Clemens ANG Base, 10 mi away.

  • common pawpaw81 obs
  • Mallard76 obs
  • Virginia Springbeauty56 obs
  • garlic mustard54 obs
  • White-tailed Deer53 obs
  • large white trillium53 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel52 obs
  • dame's rocket52 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/51469583

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