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Post Park

Post Park from directly overhead

Post Park is a park in Michigan, at a modelled elevation of 265 m. Dixon Hall stands 332 m to the south-southeast, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Barnes Park, a park 0.4 miles away. 4 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What to expect

Operated by
City of Battle Creek

Official site

How to reach it

Coordinates42.31077, -85.15400

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Barnes Park: 0.4 mi
  • Hamilton Park: 0.4 mi
  • Cliff Street Park: 0.6 mi
  • Horseshoe Bend Park: 0.8 mi
  • Sam J. Stellrecht Park: 1.0 mi
Attractions: 45
  • Full Blast: 1.7 mi
  • 2nd Stream: 8.2 mi
  • Harmonia: 8.3 mi
  • 1st Stream: 8.3 mi
  • Switchback: 8.4 mi
Museums: 18
Artworks: 15
  • Sojourner Truth Memorial: 1.4 mi
  • Friendship Park Stone Marker: 1.5 mi
  • The Creek: 1.6 mi
  • Compass Pole Monument: 1.9 mi
  • Wind-Driven Rotating Mobile: 1.9 mi
Historic sites: 11
Gardens: 4
Rest areas: 4
  • Battle Creek Rest Area: 4.7 mi
  • Turkeyville Rest Area 722: 8.4 mi
  • Marshall Rest Area: 12.4 mi
  • Galesburg Rest Area: 15.0 mi
Peaks: 4
Beaches: 1
  • Willard Beach: 3.1 mi

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Dixon HallSSE 157°332 m15.0 mi
Jerusalem HillsENE 76°297 m22.9 mi
Stony Point HillSSE 156°286 m16.8 mi
The HogbackNW 313°282 m16.9 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:4519:1619:53
June solstice06:0520:3921:22
September equinox07:2919:0319:40
December solstice08:0716:2617:12

Local time (America/Detroit).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F242636485969737164524030
Precip in1.61.21.72.93.73.43.43.43.23.62.11.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Battle Creek Kellogg AP, 5 mi away.

  • bittersweet nightshade11 obs
  • Variable Dancer10 obs
  • Trumpeter Swan7 obs
  • Monarch7 obs
  • Leopard Slug7 obs
  • American Toad7 obs
  • Oriental Beetle7 obs
  • Cooper's Hawk7 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/323302485

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