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Wabash Park

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Wabash Park is a park in Michigan, at a recorded elevation of 240 m. Oakland Heights Landfill stands 388 m to the northwest, 7.0 miles off. The nearest named place is Wabash Park Community Garden, a garden less than a tenth of a mile away. Woodward Avenue (M-1) - Automotive Heritage Trail passes 6.8 miles off. 22 named summits stand within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
240 m
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Coordinates42.64275, -83.13713
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Gardens
Historic sites
Nature reserves
  • Ruby Green Space Property: 1.4 mi
  • Avon Nature Study Area: 1.7 mi
  • Rivercrest Green Space Property: 1.8 mi
  • Cloverport Green Space Property: 2.0 mi
  • Childress Green Space Property: 2.1 mi
Parks
Attractions
  • Big Idea Chair: 2.5 mi
  • Step Pools: 2.5 mi
  • Waterfall Pointe: 2.5 mi
  • Adams Road Mastodon: 3.3 mi
  • Burgess-Shadbush Nature Center: 3.5 mi
Artworks
Museums
Beaches: 23
  • Secret Beach: 4.1 mi
  • Eastwood Beach: 6.3 mi
  • Baypoint Beach: 6.4 mi
  • Kingswood Stream Beach: 7.3 mi
  • Lone Pine Beach: 10.9 mi
Peaks: 22
Picnic sites: 13
  • Southdale Picnic Area: 6.4 mi
  • Rose Sortor Gazebo: 10.6 mi
  • Red Panda Picnic Site: 11.4 mi
  • Arctic Overlook Picnic Site: 11.5 mi
  • Otter picnic site: 11.5 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Rest areas: 2
  • Clarkston Rest Area 904: 19.0 mi
  • Former Richmond Rest Area 910 - CLOSED: 22.3 mi
Cliffs: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Oakland Heights LandfillNW 307°388 m7.0 mi
Mount ChristieNNW 330°387 m19.3 mi
Grampian HillsNNW 344°375 m12.3 mi
Pine KnobWNW 301°367 m13.7 mi
Kerr HillNW 324°367 m21.7 mi
Enders HillNW 306°366 m22.1 mi
Bald MountainNW 314°351 m6.5 mi
Mount KanzerW 266°351 m23.4 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:3719:0819:45
June solstice05:5620:3221:15
September equinox07:2118:5519:32
December solstice08:0016:1717:03

Local time (America/Detroit).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F242635475968737164514030
Precip in2.21.92.22.93.83.33.13.22.92.93.12.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Pontiac Wwtp, 6 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • White-tailed Deer41 obs
  • Green Frog20 obs
  • Red-winged Blackbird17 obs
  • Amur honeysuckle16 obs
  • Dryad's Saddle16 obs
  • Eastern Cottontail14 obs
  • American Toad14 obs
  • Blue Jay12 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/59441055

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