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Showboat Park

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Showboat Park is a park in Michigan, at a modelled elevation of 189 m. Mount Nethaway stands 267 m to the south, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Cole Park, a park 0.5 miles away. River Road Scenic Byway passes 90 miles off. 4 named summits stand within 25 miles.

How to reach it

Coordinates43.17701, -84.11327

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Museums: 19
  • Chesaning Area Historical: 0.7 mi
  • Montrose Depot: 11.0 mi
  • Montrose Historical and Telephone Pioneer Museum: 11.2 mi
  • Flushing Area Museum: 14.9 mi
  • Saginaw Railway Museum: 17.2 mi
Historic sites: 8
Artworks: 6
  • Welcome: 14.8 mi
  • Dolphan Statue: 21.8 mi
  • Dr Drake Statue: 24.3 mi
  • Leaping Gazelle Fountain: 24.4 mi
  • I LOVE SVSU: 24.5 mi
Gardens: 5
  • Jan Nash Memorial Garden: 12.7 mi
  • JonBoy's Plant Paradise: 17.9 mi
  • Saginaw Art Museum Garden: 18.9 mi
  • Art Miles Community Garden: 19.3 mi
  • Rose Garden: 22.1 mi
Attractions: 5
  • Wildlife Blind: 14.0 mi
  • Wildlife Blind: 14.2 mi
  • Boardwalk: 14.2 mi
  • Silent Night Chapel: 21.2 mi
  • Uncle John's Cider Mill: 23.1 mi
Peaks: 4
Beaches: 3
  • Bitcoin Beach North: 21.5 mi
  • Sleepy Hollow Dog Beach: 22.0 mi
  • Sleepy Hollow State Park Beach: 22.0 mi
Rest areas: 2
  • Clio Rest Area 612: 17.5 mi
  • Swartz Creek Rest Area 627: 19.3 mi
Waterfalls: 1
  • Stepping Stone Falls: 24.3 mi

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount NethawayS 189°267 m19.8 mi
Hog IslandS 182°259 m21.4 mi
Bradshaw HillWSW 241°238 m16.8 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:4119:1119:49
June solstice05:5720:3721:20
September equinox07:2418:5819:36
December solstice08:0616:1817:05

Local time (America/Detroit).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F232534465767716962503929
Precip in2.11.82.03.64.23.53.63.32.73.22.42.0

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Owosso Wwtp, 12 mi away.

  • Mallard7 obs
  • American Robin7 obs
  • Eastern Cottontail6 obs
  • wild carrot5 obs
  • Mourning Dove4 obs
  • Northern Cardinal4 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel4 obs
  • white mulberry4 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/489478012

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