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Shadyside Park

Shadyside Park from directly overhead

Shadyside Park is a park in Michigan, at a modelled elevation of 177 m. Oakland Heights Landfill stands 388 m to the west-northwest, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Sleepy Hollow Nature Preserve, a nature reserve 0.4 miles away. Woodward Avenue (M-1) - Automotive Heritage Trail passes 15 miles off. 9 named summits stand within 25 miles.

How to reach it

Coordinates42.58320, -82.87874

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Historic sites
Attractions
Artworks
Museums: 52
  • Michigan Transit Museum: 1.3 mi
  • Gratiot Valley Railroad Club: 1.8 mi
  • Selfridge Air Museum: 4.0 mi
  • The Baumgartner House Museum And Fraser Depot Visitor Center: 4.4 mi
  • Chesterfield Historic Village: 5.5 mi
Gardens: 49
Beaches: 10
  • Secret Beach: 10.0 mi
  • Accretion Beach: 12.0 mi
  • Little Beach: 12.3 mi
  • Crescent Sail Club Beach (Private): 12.5 mi
  • Eastwood Beach: 14.3 mi
Picnic sites: 10
  • Southdale Picnic Area: 14.1 mi
  • Main picnic site: 15.7 mi
  • Otter picnic site: 15.7 mi
  • PlayVenture picnic site: 15.7 mi
  • Main Picnic Grove: 15.7 mi
Peaks: 9
Ghost towns: 2
Rest areas: 2
  • Former Richmond Rest Area 910 - CLOSED: 13.7 mi
  • Adair Rest Area 909: 18.1 mi

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Oakland Heights LandfillWNW 294°388 m20.5 mi
Grampian HillsNW 314°375 m22.9 mi
Bald MountainWNW 296°351 m19.8 mi
Twombly MountainNNW 329°349 m20.7 mi
Mount JudahWNW 293°345 m23.2 mi
Fibber MountainNW 309°302 m15.4 mi
Mt. SheldonNW 309°290 m15.3 mi
Mt TomW 259°257 m21.7 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:3619:0719:44
June solstice05:5520:3021:13
September equinox07:2018:5419:31
December solstice07:5916:1617:02

Local time (America/Detroit).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F252635465768727063524030
Precip in2.21.72.43.43.63.33.83.73.22.82.62.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — MT Clemens ANG Base, 4 mi away.

  • Mallard21 obs
  • Monarch17 obs
  • ground-ivy13 obs
  • White-tailed Deer11 obs
  • American pokeweed11 obs
  • purple loosestrife11 obs
  • American Toad11 obs
  • Cross Orbweaver10 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/1100952955

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