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Oriole Park

Oriole Park from directly overhead

Oriole Park is a park in Michigan, at a modelled elevation of 200 m. Dias Hill stands 311 m to the south-southeast, 6.7 miles off. The nearest named place is Buck Creek Nature Preserve, a nature reserve 0.3 miles away. 6 named summits stand within 25 miles.

How to reach it

Coordinates42.88619, -85.69902

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Artworks
  • Abstract Steel Sculpture: 1.1 mi
  • Rapid Central Bike Parking: 5.1 mi
  • ArtPost Grand Valley State University (GVSU) Seidman Campus: 5.3 mi
  • ArtPost Verne Barry Place: 5.4 mi
  • ArtPost Ferguson Apartments: 5.4 mi
Museums: 25
Historic sites: 21
Attractions: 17
  • Boynton's Landing: 6.1 mi
  • Hilltop Stop: 16.3 mi
  • Boulder Jump: 16.4 mi
  • Sawtooth Drop: 16.4 mi
  • Wynalda Flow Trails Hub: 16.7 mi
Gardens: 13
Peaks: 6
Rest areas: 3
  • Zeeland Rest Area 528: 12.4 mi
  • Rockford Rest Area 525: 18.3 mi
  • Fruitport Rest Area 502: 24.7 mi
Beaches: 2
  • Millennium Park Beach: 4.3 mi
  • Fishing Beach: 17.1 mi
Covered bridges: 2
Picnic sites: 1
  • Picnic Area: 5.2 mi
Ghost towns: 1

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Dias HillSSE 158°311 m6.7 mi
Baird HillSSE 152°294 m22.9 mi
Graves HillSSE 149°280 m21.3 mi
Bettes Tower HillN 354°260 m18.8 mi
Beach HillSW 215°242 m20.1 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:4719:1819:55
June solstice06:0520:4321:26
September equinox07:3119:0519:42
December solstice08:1116:2617:12

Local time (America/Detroit).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F242634465867716962503929
Precip in2.72.12.64.14.44.03.33.13.53.73.32.8

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — E Grand Rapids, 6 mi away.

  • mayapple67 obs
  • common motherwort65 obs
  • White-tailed Deer55 obs
  • Golden Oyster Mushroom44 obs
  • Eastern Skunk Cabbage43 obs
  • red deadnettle43 obs
  • garlic mustard39 obs
  • Ghost Pipe38 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/158957832

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