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Portage Lake Park

Portage Lake Park from directly overhead

Portage Lake Park is a park in Michigan, at a recorded elevation of 280 m. Bundy Hill stands 381 m to the south-southwest, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Waterloo State Recreation Area, a park 1.1 miles away. River Road Scenic Byway passes 148 miles off. 18 named summits stand within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
280 m
Getting there

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Coordinates42.33700, -84.22734
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Waterloo State Recreation Area: 1.1 mi
  • Clear Lake Park: 3.8 mi
  • Munith Community Park: 3.9 mi
  • Mike Levine Lakelands Trail State Park: 3.9 mi
  • Grass Lake Park: 5.5 mi
Nature reserves
Attractions
  • The Upside Down: 6.0 mi
  • The Upside Down: 6.0 mi
  • The Upside Down: 6.0 mi
  • The Upside Down: 6.0 mi
  • Sky Miles: 6.1 mi
Peaks: 18
Museums: 16
  • Michigan Whitetail Hall of Fame Museum: 3.0 mi
  • Waterloo Farm Museum: 3.8 mi
  • The Lost Railway Museum: 6.0 mi
  • The Coe House Museum: 6.1 mi
  • Ella Sharp Museum: 12.9 mi
Artworks: 15
Historic sites: 12
Gardens: 10
Picnic sites: 7
  • Robert D. Wymer Memorial Pavilion: 16.3 mi
  • River Grove Picnic Area: 16.4 mi
  • Island picnic site: 16.4 mi
  • Oak Meadows Picnic Area: 16.5 mi
  • Activity Center Picnic Area: 16.6 mi
Rest areas: 6
  • Grass Lake Rest Area: 3.1 mi
  • Jackson Rest Area 820: 10.5 mi
  • Chelsea Rest Area: 12.1 mi
  • Sandstone Rest Area 819: 14.4 mi
  • Howell Rest Area 812: 23.0 mi
Springs: 3
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Bundy HillSSW 211°381 m22.8 mi
Prospect HillS 184°372 m21.1 mi
Hatt HillSW 214°348 m15.1 mi
Cassidy KameE 82°344 m7.5 mi
Irish HillS 185°344 m22.3 mi
Sackrider HillSSE 159°338 m2.6 mi
Big KameENE 71°328 m7.6 mi
Sugarloaf HillE 88°327 m6.2 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:4119:1219:49
June solstice06:0120:3521:18
September equinox07:2518:5919:36
December solstice08:0416:2317:08

Local time (America/Detroit).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F242635475968717063513929
Precip in2.42.02.23.03.83.63.43.62.73.12.62.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Chelsea, 11 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Sandhill Crane23 obs
  • Bald Eagle13 obs
  • Ghost Pipe13 obs
  • bloodroot13 obs
  • Eastern Skunk Cabbage12 obs
  • wild geranium10 obs
  • Jack-in-the-Pulpit10 obs
  • large white trillium10 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/344912298

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