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Mercury Park

Mercury Park from directly overhead

Mercury Park is a park in Michigan, at a modelled elevation of 183 m. Bettes Tower Hill stands 260 m to the east-northeast, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Klempel Park, a park 0.6 miles away. 2 named summits stand within 25 miles.

How to reach it

Coordinates43.05090, -86.18937

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Attractions
Nature reserves: 39
Artworks: 30
Museums: 19
  • Midwest Miniatures Museum: 2.0 mi
  • Community Archive and Research Center: 2.2 mi
  • Tri-Cities Historical Museum: 2.3 mi
  • Gillette Visitor Center: 6.2 mi
  • James Jackson Museum of African American History: 10.8 mi
Beaches: 12
Rest areas: 4
  • Fruitport Rest Area 502: 5.4 mi
  • Zeeland Rest Area 528: 20.5 mi
  • Muskegon Rest Area 501: 21.2 mi
  • Saugatuck Rest Area 727: 23.9 mi
Picnic sites: 2
  • Fairchild Park: 12.9 mi
  • The Pines: 12.9 mi
Peaks: 2
Gardens: 2
Ghost towns: 1
Lighthouses: 1
Springs: 1
  • Headwaters: 24.9 mi

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Bettes Tower HillENE 72°260 m24.1 mi
BaldyS 182°233 m21.2 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:4919:2019:57
June solstice06:0620:4521:28
September equinox07:3319:0719:44
December solstice08:1416:2717:13

Local time (America/Detroit).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F262634455767716963514031
Precip in2.82.02.33.73.83.53.63.13.43.73.12.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Grand Haven Wwtp, 1 mi away.

  • Mute Swan17 obs
  • Mallard16 obs
  • European Frog-bit13 obs
  • Double-crested Cormorant13 obs
  • Great Blue Heron12 obs
  • Eastern Red-backed Salamander12 obs
  • Monarch12 obs
  • common motherwort11 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/405630169

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