Onaway State Park
Onaway State Park is a park in Michigan, at a recorded elevation of 206 m. Blats Hill stands 294 m to the west, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is DNR Onaway Field Office, a nature reserve 1.5 miles away. 3 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 206 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- Michigan Department of Natural Resources
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Edna Lound Recreational Park: 5.1 mi
- Tower North Eastern State Trail Parking: 6.0 mi
- Forest: 6.1 mi
- Forest Township Park: 6.3 mi
- Ocqueoc Outdoor Center: 6.6 mi
- DNR Onaway Field Office: 1.5 mi
- Caroline and Willis Brown Nature Preserve: 5.7 mi
- Buck Falls Ranch: 6.0 mi
- Cain's Creek Swamp Nature Preserve: 6.1 mi
- G.C. Nature Preserve: 10.6 mi
- Huron Dune Roadside Park: 11.1 mi
- Lake Huron: 11.1 mi
- Huron Shores Roadside Park: 13.8 mi
- Browning Farm: 14.8 mi
- Henry & Margaret "Peggy" Hoffman: 15.9 mi
- Sturgeon for Tomorrow: 5.3 mi
- Lobdell Administration Building: 5.5 mi
- Landing Field Concrete Marker: 10.0 mi
- Moltke Maize Maze, LLC: 12.8 mi
- Lifeboat: 15.9 mi
- Onaway Historical Museum: 5.4 mi
- Millersburg Detroit & Mackinac Railroad Depot Museum: 11.0 mi
- Topinabee Museum: 17.7 mi
- Native American Log Cabin: 18.5 mi
- Sheriff’s House & Jail: 18.6 mi
- Doriva Beach: 5.5 mi
- The Beach at Canada Creek Ranch: 17.6 mi
- Devoe Beach: 18.9 mi
- Black Mountain: 6.0 mi
- Blats Hill: 14.0 mi
- Griswold Mountain: 18.8 mi
- Suicide Awareness and Healing Garden: 20.1 mi
- Sunrise Side Community Garden: 20.2 mi
- Mesochosm Area: 23.1 mi
- Topinabee Rest Area 407: 19.0 mi
- Hebron Rest Area 408: 24.9 mi
- Ocqueoc Falls: 8.9 mi
- Forty Mile Point Light: 15.8 mi
- Hagensville: 23.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Onaway State Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blats Hill | W 259° | 294 m | 14.0 mi |
| Griswold Mountain | W 270° | 269 m | 18.8 mi |
| Black Mountain | NNW 346° | 263 m | 6.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:41 | 19:10 | 19:49 |
| June solstice | 05:49 | 20:44 | 21:30 |
| September equinox | 07:25 | 18:57 | 19:36 |
| December solstice | 08:15 | 16:08 | 16:57 |
Local time (America/Detroit).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 19 | 21 | 30 | 42 | 54 | 64 | 68 | 67 | 60 | 48 | 36 | 26 |
| Precip in | 2.0 | 1.5 | 1.8 | 3.0 | 3.1 | 2.9 | 3.1 | 3.2 | 3.3 | 3.5 | 2.4 | 2.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Onaway 4N, 2 mi away.
- Broad-leaved helleborine5 obs
- purple loosestrife5 obs
- Blue-spotted Salamander4 obs
- common selfheal4 obs
- Leopard Slug4 obs
- Wild Basil4 obs
- Common Garter Snake3 obs
- Eastern Chipmunk3 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.
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