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Magnolia Park

Magnolia Park from directly overhead

Magnolia Park is a park in Michigan, at a modelled elevation of 191 m. Oakland Heights Landfill stands 388 m to the northwest, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Carpathia Park, a park 0.5 miles away. Woodward Avenue (M-1) - Automotive Heritage Trail passes 7.0 miles off. 12 named summits stand within 25 miles.

How to reach it

Coordinates42.56318, -83.06039

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Museums
Attractions
  • Abandoned Dragline Excavator: 3.4 mi
  • Burgess-Shadbush Nature Center: 6.1 mi
  • Birmingham Ice Arena: 6.9 mi
  • Polk Penguin Conservation Center: 7.5 mi
  • Jane and Frank Warchol Beaver Habitat: 7.6 mi
Historic sites
Nature reserves
Gardens
  • Friendship Community Garden: 4.9 mi
  • Hope Garden: 5.1 mi
  • Decorative Garden: 5.3 mi
  • Center Line Community Garden: 5.7 mi
  • Church of Christ Community Garden: 6.0 mi
Beaches: 22
  • Secret Beach: 5.8 mi
  • Kingswood Stream Beach: 9.3 mi
  • Eastwood Beach: 11.2 mi
  • Baypoint Beach: 11.6 mi
  • Lone Pine Beach: 13.4 mi
Peaks: 12
  • Mt. Sheldon: 11.3 mi
  • Fibber Mountain: 11.4 mi
  • Mt Tom: 12.4 mi
  • Bald Mountain: 13.2 mi
  • Oakland Heights Landfill: 13.6 mi
Picnic sites: 11
  • Otter picnic site: 7.6 mi
  • Main picnic site: 7.6 mi
  • Main Picnic Grove: 7.6 mi
  • PlayVenture picnic site: 7.6 mi
  • Red Panda Picnic Site: 7.7 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Rest areas: 2
  • Former Richmond Rest Area 910 - CLOSED: 21.3 mi
  • Clarkston Rest Area 904: 24.9 mi

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Oakland Heights LandfillNW 316°388 m13.6 mi
Grampian HillsNNW 337°375 m18.8 mi
Pine KnobNW 309°367 m20.0 mi
Bald MountainNW 319°351 m13.2 mi
Twombly MountainN 356°349 m19.2 mi
Mount JudahNW 310°345 m15.9 mi
Waterford HillWNW 300°342 m20.5 mi
Fibber MountainNNW 347°302 m11.4 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:3619:0719:45
June solstice05:5620:3121:14
September equinox07:2018:5419:31
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, 11 mi away.

  • Eastern Gray Squirrel29 obs
  • American Robin24 obs
  • White-tailed Deer17 obs
  • Northern Cardinal16 obs
  • Bold Jumping Spider15 obs
  • Monarch12 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee12 obs
  • Eastern Cottontail11 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/496974365

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