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Recreation Park

Recreation Park from directly overhead

Recreation Park is a park in Michigan, at a modelled elevation of 191 m. Dias Hill stands 311 m to the west-southwest, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is Lowell Area Historical Museum, a museum 0.2 miles away. 5 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What to expect

Operated by
City of Lowell

How to reach it

Coordinates42.93106, -85.33930

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Artworks
  • The Cheese: 12.7 mi
  • Leaping Gazelle Fountain: 12.8 mi
  • The Tribute: 12.8 mi
  • Four Open Squares Horizontal Gyratory-Tapered: 12.8 mi
  • Bent of Mind: 12.8 mi
Museums: 25
Attractions: 23
  • Pine Plantation: 2.8 mi
  • Mixed Oak Forest: 2.8 mi
  • Equestrian Confidence Course: 11.3 mi
  • Historic Stagecoach: 16.5 mi
  • Sawtooth Drop: 17.5 mi
Nature reserves: 22
Historic sites: 19
Gardens: 11
  • Stargazer Gardens: 8.5 mi
  • Heirloom Vegetable Patch: 12.8 mi
  • Heirloom Vegetable Patch: 12.8 mi
  • Bonsai Garden: 12.9 mi
  • Zen-Style Garden: 12.9 mi
Peaks: 5
  • Buena Vista Hill: 13.2 mi
  • Dias Hill: 18.3 mi
  • Graves Hill: 22.6 mi
  • Cheney Hills: 23.4 mi
  • Baird Hill: 24.4 mi
Covered bridges: 2
Rest areas: 2
  • Saranac Rest Area 532: 9.8 mi
  • Rockford Rest Area 525: 19.2 mi
Beaches: 2
  • Fishing Beach: 16.5 mi
  • Millennium Park Beach: 20.8 mi
Picnic sites: 1
  • Picnic Area: 18.4 mi

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Dias HillWSW 240°311 m18.3 mi
Baird HillSSW 198°294 m24.4 mi
Cheney HillsNNW 340°291 m23.4 mi
Graves HillSSW 199°280 m22.6 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:4619:1619:54
June solstice06:0320:4121:24
September equinox07:2919:0319:41
December solstice08:1016:2417:10

Local time (America/Detroit).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F242635475968727063503930
Precip in2.52.12.43.94.03.93.83.63.43.93.12.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Nwsfo Grand Rapids, 11 mi away.

  • Mallard18 obs
  • goat's rue8 obs
  • Asian Lady Beetle7 obs
  • Canada anemone7 obs
  • Spongy Moth6 obs
  • common milkweed6 obs
  • Smallmouth Bass6 obs
  • American Toad6 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/470342186

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