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Riordan Playground

Riordan Playground from directly overhead

Riordan Playground is a park in Michigan, at a recorded elevation of 192 m. Oakland Heights Landfill stands 388 m to the north, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Hope Playground, a park 0.4 miles away. Woodward Avenue (M-1) - Automotive Heritage Trail passes 7.5 miles off. 15 named summits stand within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
192 m
Getting there

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Coordinates42.40640, -83.26255
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Hope Playground: 0.4 mi
  • Rouge Valley Parkway: 0.5 mi
  • Rouge Valley Parkway: 0.6 mi
  • Midland-Bentler Playground: 0.6 mi
  • Outer Drive-Burgess Park: 0.8 mi
Gardens
  • Brightmoor Youth Garden: 0.6 mi
  • Orchard Street Community Garden: 0.9 mi
  • GRDC Rain Garden: 1.3 mi
  • Berg-Lahser Community Garden: 1.7 mi
  • Grandmont Rosedale Community Garden: 2.4 mi
Artworks
Nature reserves
  • Horsetail Woods: 2.8 mi
  • Bauervic Woods Nature Preserve: 3.6 mi
  • Hunters Lane Woods: 3.8 mi
  • Sunset Park: 3.9 mi
  • Golfview Nature Preserve: 4.0 mi
Historic sites
  • D-69 Nike Missile IFC Area (former): 3.5 mi
  • D-69 Nike Missile Launcher Site (former): 3.6 mi
  • Sorenson House: 4.2 mi
  • Ockham's Wedge: 4.8 mi
  • Fallen Heroes Monument: 5.6 mi
Museums
Attractions
  • Rouge Park cannon: 4.2 mi
  • Fishing Platform: 4.9 mi
  • Las Tres Rocas (MTB feature): 6.8 mi
  • Tree Climb Feature: 6.9 mi
  • Cotton Family Wolf Wilderness: 7.0 mi
Picnic sites: 43
  • Pierson Lake picnic site: 7.1 mi
  • Wolverine picnic site: 7.1 mi
  • Arctic Overlook Picnic Site: 7.2 mi
  • Red Panda Picnic Site: 7.3 mi
  • PlayVenture picnic site: 7.4 mi
Beaches: 24
  • Lone Pine Beach: 11.3 mi
  • Kingswood Stream Beach: 11.5 mi
  • Westacres Beach: 14.8 mi
  • Cebia Beach: 14.9 mi
  • Nantucket / Pennylake HOA Beach: 14.9 mi
Peaks: 15
Ghost towns: 3
Rest areas: 1
  • Belleville Rest Area: 18.4 mi
Cliffs: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Oakland Heights LandfillN 2°388 m20.6 mi
Pine KnobNNW 347°367 m23.9 mi
Bald MountainN 5°351 m20.9 mi
Mount KanzerNW 311°351 m22.5 mi
Mount OmichNW 313°347 m22.5 mi
Mount JudahN 355°345 m21.2 mi
Waterford HillNNW 340°342 m22.4 mi
Teeple HillNW 317°336 m21.5 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:3719:0819:45
June solstice05:5720:3221:14
September equinox07:2118:5519:32
December solstice08:0016:1817:04

Local time (America/Detroit).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F262837485969747265534131
Precip in2.12.12.53.23.73.73.43.53.02.82.62.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Dearborn #2, 6 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Monarch15 obs
  • common yarrow15 obs
  • Red Clover13 obs
  • multiflora rose12 obs
  • White-tailed Deer11 obs
  • wild bergamot11 obs
  • chicory9 obs
  • creeping thistle9 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/326845526

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