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O'Shea Playground

O'Shea Playground from directly overhead

O'Shea Playground is a park in Michigan, at a recorded elevation of 189 m. Oakland Heights Landfill stands 388 m to the north, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Buffalo Soldiers Memorial Park, a park 0.6 miles away. Woodward Avenue (M-1) - Automotive Heritage Trail passes 5.7 miles off. 7 named summits stand within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
189 m
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates42.37806, -83.20277
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Buffalo Soldiers Memorial Park: 0.6 mi
  • Doan Playground: 0.7 mi
  • Mallett Park: 0.8 mi
  • Shirley-Plymouth Park: 1.0 mi
  • Greenview-Wadsworth Park: 1.1 mi
Gardens
  • Grandmont Rosedale Community Garden: 1.7 mi
  • GRDC Rain Garden: 2.7 mi
  • Brightmoor Youth Garden: 3.5 mi
  • Orchard Street Community Garden: 3.9 mi
  • Organic Garden: 4.3 mi
Historic sites
Artworks
Attractions
  • Rouge Park cannon: 3.0 mi
  • Five Replica Homes of Great Americans: 5.8 mi
  • Cotton Family Wolf Wilderness: 7.0 mi
  • Prairie Dog: 7.0 mi
  • Bald Eagle: 7.1 mi
Museums
Nature reserves
  • Horsetail Woods: 5.8 mi
  • Bauervic Woods Nature Preserve: 5.9 mi
  • Hunters Lane Woods: 6.7 mi
  • Lincoln Woods Nature Preserve: 7.0 mi
  • Golfview Nature Preserve: 7.2 mi
Picnic sites: 32
  • Pierson Lake picnic site: 7.1 mi
  • Wolverine picnic site: 7.1 mi
  • Arctic Overlook Picnic Site: 7.2 mi
  • PlayVenture picnic site: 7.3 mi
  • Red Panda Picnic Site: 7.3 mi
Beaches: 23
  • Belle Isle Beach: 11.7 mi
  • Hipster Beach: 12.8 mi
  • Kingswood Stream Beach: 13.6 mi
  • Lone Pine Beach: 14.2 mi
  • Crescent Sail Club Beach (Private): 16.3 mi
Peaks: 7
Ghost towns: 3
Rest areas: 2
  • Belleville Rest Area: 19.5 mi
  • Carleton Rest Area 826: 24.4 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Oakland Heights LandfillN 354°388 m22.7 mi
Bald MountainN 357°351 m22.9 mi
Mount JudahNNW 348°345 m23.6 mi
Fibber MountainN 11°302 m24.4 mi
Halsted HillNW 308°297 m14.1 mi
Mt. SheldonN 11°290 m24.2 mi
Mt TomNNW 334°257 m11.2 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:3719:0819:45
June solstice05:5720:3121:14
September equinox07:2118:5519:32
December solstice08:0016:1817:04

Local time (America/Detroit).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F262837485969747265534131
Precip in2.12.12.53.23.73.73.43.53.02.82.62.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Dearborn #2, 3 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • dense blazing star22 obs
  • Butler's Garter Snake9 obs
  • Eastern Foxsnake8 obs
  • Monarch7 obs
  • Common Garter Snake4 obs
  • DeKay's Brownsnake4 obs
  • Asian Lady Beetle4 obs
  • Ailanthus Webworm Moth4 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/326845524

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