Kensington (Lake) Park
Kensington (Lake) Park is a park in Michigan, at a recorded elevation of 261 m. Bald Hill stands 334 m to the south-southwest, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Glen Park South, a park 0.2 miles away. 5 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 261 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Glen Park South: 0.2 mi
- Glen Park North: 0.2 mi
- Canyon Park: 0.4 mi
- Springmont Tot Lot: 0.4 mi
- Hillside Park: 0.4 mi
- West Douglas Neighborhood Park: 2.7 mi
- Schellenberg Woods: 4.2 mi
- Bishop's Bog Preserve: 5.8 mi
- Bow in the Clouds Preserve: 5.9 mi
- Eliason Nature Reserve: 6.2 mi
- South Street: 2.6 mi
- Kalamazoo Mall: 2.7 mi
- Celery Flats Interpretive Center: 3.9 mi
- Nature's Playground: 7.3 mi
- Year Round Golf: 9.0 mi
- Kalamazoo Valley Community College Center for New Media Art Museum: 2.8 mi
- Kalamazoo Valley Museum: 2.9 mi
- Flight Innovation Center: 3.9 mi
- Air Zoo: 4.0 mi
- Vicksburg Historical Society: 10.5 mi
- Bird Effigy: 1.3 mi
- The Professor: 1.5 mi
- The Committee: 1.5 mi
- Western Michigan University Seal: 1.6 mi
- Giraffa Camelopardalis: 1.7 mi
- Western W: 1.5 mi
- The Upjohn Company: 2.8 mi
- Burdick Street: 2.8 mi
- Art Deco: 2.8 mi
- Martin Luther King Jr.: 3.0 mi
- Bell's Beer Garden: 3.2 mi
- God's Garden: 6.5 mi
- People's Plot: 22.7 mi
- People's Plot: 22.7 mi
- Mushroom garden: 22.7 mi
- Prospect Hill: 14.4 mi
- The Hogback: 18.8 mi
- Mount Misery: 22.7 mi
- Bald Hill: 23.9 mi
- Baird Hill: 24.1 mi
- Alamo Rest Area 709: 6.8 mi
- Galesburg Rest Area: 9.1 mi
- Battle Creek Rest Area: 20.5 mi
- Willard Beach: 21.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Kensington (Lake) Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bald Hill | SSW 206° | 334 m | 23.9 mi |
| Mount Misery | SSW 201° | 317 m | 22.7 mi |
| Baird Hill | NNE 16° | 294 m | 24.1 mi |
| The Hogback | NE 37° | 282 m | 18.8 mi |
| Prospect Hill | WSW 253° | 244 m | 14.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:47 | 19:18 | 19:55 |
| June solstice | 06:07 | 20:41 | 21:23 |
| September equinox | 07:31 | 19:05 | 19:42 |
| December solstice | 08:09 | 16:28 | 17:14 |
Local time (America/Detroit).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 25 | 27 | 37 | 49 | 60 | 69 | 73 | 71 | 63 | 52 | 40 | 30 |
| Precip in | 1.7 | 1.3 | 2.0 | 3.1 | 3.7 | 3.2 | 3.4 | 3.7 | 3.3 | 3.7 | 2.5 | 1.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Kalamazoo Battle Creek Intl AP, 4 mi away.
- White-tailed Deer442 obs
- Common Eastern Bumble Bee166 obs
- Western Honey Bee147 obs
- common milkweed130 obs
- Canada Goose120 obs
- Eastern Fox Squirrel113 obs
- American Robin110 obs
- Mallard87 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/1070630974
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