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Meadows Park

Meadows Park from directly overhead

Meadows Park is a park in Michigan, at a recorded elevation of 192 m. Oakland Heights Landfill stands 388 m to the north, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Parkview Park, a park 0.5 miles away. Woodward Avenue (M-1) - Automotive Heritage Trail passes 9.4 miles off. 15 named summits stand within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
192 m
Getting there

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Coordinates42.41910, -83.31803
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Nature reserves
  • Sunset Park: 1.0 mi
  • Sunset Park: 1.3 mi
  • Golfview Nature Preserve: 1.6 mi
  • Grandview Nature Preserve: 1.7 mi
  • Bainbridge Park: 1.7 mi
Gardens
  • Berg-Lahser Community Garden: 2.7 mi
  • Brightmoor Youth Garden: 3.0 mi
  • Orchard Street Community Garden: 3.1 mi
  • Rock Garden: 3.5 mi
  • GRDC Rain Garden: 4.2 mi
Historic sites
  • Fallen Heroes Monument: 3.1 mi
  • Veteran's Memorial: 3.2 mi
  • Coasting the Base Line Farmington / Farmington Hills Obelisk: 4.3 mi
  • Veteran's Memorial: 4.4 mi
  • 9/11 Memorial: 4.4 mi
Attractions
  • Fishing Platform: 3.2 mi
  • Las Tres Rocas (MTB feature): 5.3 mi
  • Tree Climb Feature: 5.3 mi
  • The Giving Tree: 5.5 mi
  • Log Pile Pyramid: 5.9 mi
Artworks
Museums
Picnic sites: 43
  • Pierson Lake picnic site: 9.0 mi
  • Arctic Overlook Picnic Site: 9.0 mi
  • Wolverine picnic site: 9.0 mi
  • Red Panda Picnic Site: 9.1 mi
  • Main Picnic Grove: 9.3 mi
Beaches: 24
  • Lone Pine Beach: 10.0 mi
  • Kingswood Stream Beach: 11.2 mi
  • Nantucket / Pennylake HOA Beach: 12.3 mi
  • Westacres Beach: 12.5 mi
  • Cebia Beach: 12.6 mi
Peaks: 15
  • Mt Tom: 7.3 mi
  • Halsted Hill: 7.9 mi
  • Teeple Hill: 18.9 mi
  • Peak 1083: 18.9 mi
  • Mont Beau: 19.5 mi
Rest areas: 3
  • Belleville Rest Area: 17.2 mi
  • Northfield Church Rest Area 814: 22.4 mi
  • Clarkston Rest Area 904: 24.0 mi
Ghost towns: 3
Cliffs: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Oakland Heights LandfillN 10°388 m20.0 mi
Pine KnobN 353°367 m22.6 mi
Mount KanzerNW 314°351 m19.9 mi
Bald MountainNNE 13°351 m20.5 mi
Mount OmichNW 317°347 m19.9 mi
Mount JudahN 3°345 m20.2 mi
Waterford HillNNW 347°342 m20.7 mi
Teeple HillNW 321°336 m18.9 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:3819:0919:46
June solstice05:5720:3221:15
September equinox07:2118:5519:32
December solstice08:0016:1917:04

Local time (America/Detroit).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F232534455767717062503829
Precip in2.31.72.13.13.63.33.23.23.42.62.52.0

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Farmington, 4 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Black Swallowtail23 obs
  • White-tailed Deer21 obs
  • American Toad20 obs
  • Monarch16 obs
  • Rock Pigeon14 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel13 obs
  • Cross Orbweaver11 obs
  • American Dagger11 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/307702342

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