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Veterans Memorial Park

Veterans Memorial Park from directly overhead

Veterans Memorial Park is a park in Michigan, at a modelled elevation of 189 m. Oakland Heights Landfill stands 388 m to the northwest, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is All Veterans Memorial, a historic site 0.1 miles away. Woodward Avenue (M-1) - Automotive Heritage Trail passes 6.6 miles off. 11 named summits stand within 25 miles.

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Coordinates42.49763, -83.01395
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Historic sites
Parks
Gardens
  • Center Line Community Garden: 1.1 mi
  • Friendship Community Garden: 2.0 mi
  • Hope Garden: 2.4 mi
  • Decorative Garden: 2.8 mi
  • Eastpointe Community Garden: 3.9 mi
Artworks
Museums
  • Michigan Military Technical & Historical Society Museum: 3.7 mi
  • Red Oaks Nature Center: 4.2 mi
  • The Baumgartner House Museum And Fraser Depot Visitor Center: 4.9 mi
  • Polish Cultural Center: 5.3 mi
  • Upton House Museum: 6.5 mi
Attractions
Nature reserves
Beaches: 16
  • Accretion Beach: 9.0 mi
  • Little Beach: 9.1 mi
  • Crescent Sail Club Beach (Private): 9.3 mi
  • Secret Beach: 10.5 mi
  • Hipster Beach: 10.7 mi
Peaks: 11
  • Mt Tom: 14.6 mi
  • Mt. Sheldon: 16.3 mi
  • Fibber Mountain: 16.4 mi
  • Bald Mountain: 18.2 mi
  • Oakland Heights Landfill: 18.5 mi
Picnic sites: 10
  • Main picnic site: 7.2 mi
  • PlayVenture picnic site: 7.2 mi
  • Main Picnic Grove: 7.2 mi
  • Otter picnic site: 7.2 mi
  • Red Panda Picnic Site: 7.4 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Rest areas: 1
  • Former Richmond Rest Area 910 - CLOSED: 22.6 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Oakland Heights LandfillNW 320°388 m18.5 mi
Grampian HillsNNW 336°375 m23.9 mi
Pine KnobNW 313°367 m24.8 mi
Bald MountainNW 323°351 m18.2 mi
Twombly MountainN 351°349 m24.0 mi
Mount JudahNW 316°345 m20.7 mi
Fibber MountainNNW 342°302 m16.4 mi
Halsted HillW 271°297 m20.7 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:3619:0719:44
June solstice05:5620:3121:14
September equinox07:2018:5419:31
December solstice07:5916:1717:03

Local time (America/Detroit).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F262837486070747365534132
Precip in1.41.42.02.83.53.13.23.13.12.32.21.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Detroit City AP, 6 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Monarch197 obs
  • Zebra Jumping Spider35 obs
  • Black Swallowtail30 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee24 obs
  • American Winter Ant21 obs
  • American Robin20 obs
  • Western Honey Bee20 obs
  • Red Admiral20 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/340365398

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