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Sunset Lake Park

Sunset Lake Park from directly overhead

Sunset Lake Park is a park in Michigan, at a modelled elevation of 259 m. Bald Hill stands 334 m to the southwest, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Veteran's Park, a park 0.2 miles away. 4 named summits stand within 25 miles.

How to reach it

Coordinates42.12426, -85.53732

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Veteran's Park: 0.2 mi
  • Clark Park: 0.4 mi
  • Oswalt Park: 0.4 mi
  • Recreation Park: 0.4 mi
  • Vicksburg Recreation Area: 0.9 mi
Attractions: 33
Museums: 15
Artworks: 14
Historic sites: 11
Gardens: 6
  • God's Garden: 4.3 mi
  • Bell's Beer Garden: 12.0 mi
  • People's Plot: 13.9 mi
  • People's Plot: 14.0 mi
  • Mushroom garden: 14.0 mi
Peaks: 4
Rest areas: 3
Beaches: 1
  • Willard Beach: 20.3 mi

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Bald HillSW 231°334 m19.0 mi
Mount MiserySW 226°317 m17.0 mi
Colon MountainSE 145°287 m15.1 mi
Prospect HillWNW 286°244 m18.8 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:4619:1819:54
June solstice06:0720:4021:22
September equinox07:3019:0419:41
December solstice08:0816:2917:14

Local time (America/Detroit).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F252737496069737163524030
Precip in1.71.32.03.13.73.23.43.73.33.72.51.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Kalamazoo Battle Creek Intl AP, 7 mi away.

  • White-tailed Deer9 obs
  • Northern Cardinal8 obs
  • box elder8 obs
  • orange-fringed orchid7 obs
  • Eastern Musk Turtle6 obs
  • American Robin5 obs
  • White-breasted Nuthatch5 obs
  • purple pitcher plant5 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/290576734

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