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Plaster Creek Family Park

Plaster Creek Family Park from directly overhead

Plaster Creek Family Park is a park in Michigan, at a modelled elevation of 195 m. Dias Hill stands 311 m to the south, 8.7 miles off. The nearest named place is Grand Rapids Bike Park, a park 0.2 miles away. 7 named summits stand within 25 miles.

How to reach it

Coordinates42.92195, -85.67351

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Grand Rapids Bike Park: 0.2 mi
  • Plaster Creek: 0.4 mi
  • Burton Woods Park: 0.6 mi
  • Plaster Creek: 0.7 mi
  • Garfield Park: 0.7 mi
Artworks
  • Abstract Steel Sculpture: 2.4 mi
  • Rapid Central Bike Parking: 2.5 mi
  • ArtPost Verne Barry Place: 2.7 mi
  • ArtPost Ferguson Apartments: 2.7 mi
  • ArtPost Grand Valley State University (GVSU) Seidman Campus: 2.8 mi
Museums: 25
Historic sites: 21
Attractions: 15
  • Boynton's Landing: 6.5 mi
  • Hilltop Stop: 13.6 mi
  • Boulder Jump: 13.6 mi
  • Sawtooth Drop: 13.6 mi
  • Wynalda Flow Trails Hub: 13.9 mi
Gardens: 13
Peaks: 7
Rest areas: 3
  • Zeeland Rest Area 528: 14.5 mi
  • Rockford Rest Area 525: 15.6 mi
  • Fruitport Rest Area 502: 24.5 mi
Beaches: 2
  • Millennium Park Beach: 4.0 mi
  • Fishing Beach: 18.1 mi
Covered bridges: 2
Picnic sites: 1
  • Picnic Area: 3.1 mi
Ghost towns: 1

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Dias HillS 172°311 m8.7 mi
Baird HillSSE 157°294 m24.5 mi
Cheney HillsNNE 21°291 m24.2 mi
Graves HillSSE 155°280 m22.9 mi
Bettes Tower HillN 349°260 m16.5 mi
Beach HillSW 214°242 m22.9 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, 3 mi away.

  • red deadnettle44 obs
  • Monarch41 obs
  • box elder38 obs
  • common motherwort35 obs
  • dame's rocket34 obs
  • American Robin24 obs
  • Eastern Fox Squirrel24 obs
  • common dandelion23 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/346028229

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