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Tucker Park

Tucker Park from directly overhead

Tucker Park is a park in Michigan, at a modelled elevation of 177 m. Oakland Heights Landfill stands 388 m to the west-northwest, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Harrison Township Waterfront Park, a park 1.1 miles away. Woodward Avenue (M-1) - Automotive Heritage Trail passes 16 miles off. 8 named summits stand within 25 miles.

How to reach it

Coordinates42.56422, -82.84926

Named places within 25 miles

Attractions
Historic sites
Artworks
Museums: 51
  • Michigan Transit Museum: 3.2 mi
  • Gratiot Valley Railroad Club: 3.5 mi
  • Selfridge Air Museum: 4.5 mi
  • The Baumgartner House Museum And Fraser Depot Visitor Center: 4.7 mi
  • Chesterfield Historic Village: 6.1 mi
Gardens: 48
  • MCC Center Shrubbery Garden: 6.9 mi
  • Hope Garden: 7.2 mi
  • Friendship Community Garden: 7.7 mi
  • Formal Garden: 7.7 mi
  • Rose Garden: 7.7 mi
Beaches: 10
  • Accretion Beach: 10.9 mi
  • Little Beach: 11.1 mi
  • Crescent Sail Club Beach (Private): 11.3 mi
  • Secret Beach: 12.0 mi
  • Hipster Beach: 15.8 mi
Picnic sites: 9
  • Southdale Picnic Area: 16.1 mi
  • Main picnic site: 16.6 mi
  • PlayVenture picnic site: 16.6 mi
  • Otter picnic site: 16.6 mi
  • Main Picnic Grove: 16.6 mi
Peaks: 8
Ghost towns: 2
Rest areas: 2
  • Former Richmond Rest Area 910 - CLOSED: 14.0 mi
  • Adair Rest Area 909: 18.4 mi

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Oakland Heights LandfillWNW 296°388 m22.4 mi
Grampian HillsNW 314°375 m24.9 mi
Bald MountainWNW 297°351 m21.7 mi
Twombly MountainNNW 328°349 m22.6 mi
Fibber MountainNW 310°302 m17.3 mi
Mt. SheldonNW 309°290 m17.3 mi
Mt TomW 263°257 m23.0 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:3619:0719:44
June solstice05:5520:3021:13
September equinox07:1918:5319:31
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, 3 mi away.

  • Monarch13 obs
  • purple loosestrife11 obs
  • American Toad11 obs
  • great mullein10 obs
  • staghorn sumac10 obs
  • White-tailed Deer9 obs
  • Eastern Cottontail9 obs
  • Red Admiral8 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/294418964

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