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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 207 m. Dias Hill stands 311 m to the south, 5.7 miles off. The nearest named place is Home Acres Park, a park 0.4 miles away. 6 named summits stand within 25 miles.

How to reach it

Coordinates42.87872, -85.65696

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Artworks
  • Abstract Steel Sculpture: 1.2 mi
  • The Cheese: 4.9 mi
  • Rapid Central Bike Parking: 5.6 mi
  • ArtPost Verne Barry Place: 5.7 mi
  • ArtPost Ferguson Apartments: 5.7 mi
Museums: 25
  • Meyer May House: 5.2 mi
  • Caulkins Law Office: 5.7 mi
  • Byron Center Historical Society: 5.8 mi
  • Grand Rapids Children's Museum: 5.9 mi
  • Grand Rapids African American Museum and Archives: 6.0 mi
Historic sites: 23
Attractions: 16
Gardens: 13
Peaks: 6
Beaches: 2
  • Millennium Park Beach: 6.2 mi
  • Fishing Beach: 15.3 mi
Covered bridges: 2
Rest areas: 2
  • Zeeland Rest Area 528: 14.2 mi
  • Rockford Rest Area 525: 18.3 mi
Picnic sites: 1
  • Picnic Area: 6.2 mi
Ghost towns: 1

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
Dias HillS 176°311 m5.7 mi
Baird HillSSE 156°294 m21.5 mi
Graves HillSSE 153°280 m19.8 mi
Bettes Tower HillNNW 348°260 m19.6 mi
Beach HillSW 221°242 m21.0 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:4719:1819:55
June solstice06:0520:4221:26
September equinox07:3119:0419:42
December solstice08:1116:2617:12

Local time (America/Detroit).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F242634465867716962503929
Precip in2.72.12.64.14.44.03.33.13.53.73.32.8

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — E Grand Rapids, 5 mi away.

  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee24 obs
  • Ghost Pipe21 obs
  • red deadnettle17 obs
  • White-tailed Deer16 obs
  • American Robin15 obs
  • Monarch15 obs
  • American Toad15 obs
  • Western Honey Bee14 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/87310844

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