River Woods Park
River Woods Park is a park in Michigan, at a recorded elevation of 258 m. Oakland Heights Landfill stands 388 m to the north-northwest, 4.7 miles off. The nearest named place is Forester Square Park, a park 0.2 miles away. Woodward Avenue (M-1) - Automotive Heritage Trail passes 3.4 miles off. 23 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 258 m
How to reach it
- 3.4 mi off the Woodward Avenue (M-1) - Automotive Heritage Trail, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Forester Square Park: 0.2 mi
- Auburn Hills Skate Park: 0.3 mi
- Riverside Park: 0.5 mi
- CTC Park: 1.1 mi
- Ridge Park: 1.3 mi
- Adams Road Mastodon: 0.7 mi
- Waterfall Pointe: 1.8 mi
- Step Pools: 1.8 mi
- Big Idea Chair: 1.8 mi
- (some steel object projecting out of the water): 4.6 mi
- Resound: 2.2 mi
- Saints and Sinners: 2.2 mi
- Motherswell: 2.3 mi
- Matilda Dodge Wilson: 2.3 mi
- Colt Pegasus: 2.3 mi
- Pumpkin Patch: 2.3 mi
- Farm Garden: 2.5 mi
- Wabash Park Community Garden: 4.1 mi
- DAR Never Forget Garden: 4.5 mi
- Japanese Garden: 5.0 mi
- Troy Fallen Firefighters Memorial: 2.8 mi
- The Visitation: 3.7 mi
- Gjergj Kastrioti Skenderbeu: 3.8 mi
- The Buckley Fountain: 3.9 mi
- Bagley Inn: 4.3 mi
- Ruby Green Space Property: 3.2 mi
- Avon Nature Study Area: 3.4 mi
- Rivercrest Green Space Property: 3.7 mi
- E. Dale Fisk Hawk Woods Nature Center: 3.9 mi
- Tienken Road Park: 3.9 mi
- Mythos Museum of Oddities & Curiosities: 3.8 mi
- Pontiac Transportation Museum: 4.3 mi
- Governor Moses Wisner House: 4.5 mi
- Cranbrook House and Gardens: 5.1 mi
- Cranbrook Art Museum: 5.2 mi
- Rose Sortor Gazebo: 6.7 mi
- Southdale Picnic Area: 9.2 mi
- Arctic Overlook Picnic Site: 11.6 mi
- Red Panda Picnic Site: 11.6 mi
- Pierson Lake picnic site: 11.7 mi
- Kingswood Stream Beach: 4.9 mi
- Lone Pine Beach: 7.5 mi
- Secret Beach: 8.2 mi
- Baypoint Beach: 8.8 mi
- Eastwood Beach: 8.9 mi
- Oakland Heights Landfill: 4.7 mi
- Bald Mountain: 4.7 mi
- Mount Judah: 6.5 mi
- Mt. Sheldon: 7.7 mi
- Fibber Mountain: 7.9 mi
- The High Banks: 17.7 mi
- The Bluffs: 24.4 mi
- Clarkston Rest Area 904: 15.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of River Woods Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oakland Heights Landfill | NNW 341° | 388 m | 4.7 mi |
| Mount Christie | NNW 342° | 387 m | 17.8 mi |
| Grampian Hills | N 3° | 375 m | 12.0 mi |
| Pine Knob | NW 313° | 367 m | 10.5 mi |
| Kerr Hill | NNW 334° | 367 m | 19.7 mi |
| Enders Hill | NW 314° | 366 m | 19.1 mi |
| Bald Mountain | N 352° | 351 m | 4.7 mi |
| Mount Kanzer | W 266° | 351 m | 19.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:37 | 19:08 | 19:45 |
| June solstice | 05:56 | 20:32 | 21:15 |
| September equinox | 07:21 | 18:55 | 19:32 |
| December solstice | 08:00 | 16:17 | 17:03 |
Local time (America/Detroit).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 24 | 26 | 35 | 47 | 59 | 68 | 73 | 71 | 64 | 51 | 40 | 30 |
| Precip in | 2.2 | 1.9 | 2.2 | 2.9 | 3.8 | 3.3 | 3.1 | 3.2 | 2.9 | 2.9 | 3.1 | 2.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Pontiac Wwtp, 2 mi away.
- Common Eastern Bumble Bee39 obs
- chicory35 obs
- purple crownvetch33 obs
- autumn olive32 obs
- Eastern Skunk Cabbage27 obs
- American Toad27 obs
- common buckthorn26 obs
- Eastern Carpenter Bee25 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/354320485
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