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Warren Townsend Park

Warren Townsend Park from directly overhead

Warren Townsend Park is a park in Michigan, at a recorded elevation of 245 m. Dias Hill stands 311 m to the south-southwest, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Cannon Township Historical Museum, a museum 0.2 miles away. 5 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What the record says

Elevation
245 m

What to expect

Operated by
Kent County Parks

How to reach it

Coordinates43.05606, -85.46717

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Pickerel Lake Park: 1.3 mi
  • Balk Family County Park: 2.4 mi
  • Town Square: 2.9 mi
  • Grattan Township Roadside Park: 3.5 mi
  • Seidman Park: 4.4 mi
Artworks
  • The Big Apple: 6.6 mi
  • Earth, Wind, and Fire: 7.3 mi
  • American Eagle: 7.4 mi
  • Long Island Buddha: 7.8 mi
  • Four Open Squares Horizontal Gyratory-Tapered: 7.8 mi
Museums: 23
Nature reserves: 21
Historic sites: 17
Gardens: 13
  • Stargazer Gardens: 7.0 mi
  • Heirloom Vegetable Patch: 7.8 mi
  • Heirloom Vegetable Patch: 7.8 mi
  • Bonsai Garden: 7.9 mi
  • Zen-Style Garden: 7.9 mi
Attractions: 11
  • Sawtooth Drop: 7.0 mi
  • Wynalda Flow Trails Hub: 7.1 mi
  • Hilltop Stop: 7.3 mi
  • Boulder Jump: 7.4 mi
  • Mixed Oak Forest: 8.0 mi
Peaks: 5
Covered bridges: 2
Rest areas: 2
  • Rockford Rest Area 525: 8.5 mi
  • Saranac Rest Area 532: 19.8 mi
Beaches: 2
  • Millennium Park Beach: 16.5 mi
  • Fishing Beach: 23.9 mi
Picnic sites: 1
  • Picnic Area: 13.5 mi
Ghost towns: 1

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Dias HillSSW 207°311 m20.2 mi
Cheney HillsN 353°291 m13.5 mi
Maple HillN 358°273 m21.5 mi
Bettes Tower HillWNW 297°260 m15.2 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:4619:1719:54
June solstice06:0320:4221:25
September equinox07:3019:0419:41
December solstice08:1116:2417:11

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, 11 mi away.

  • purple loosestrife43 obs
  • Ghost Pipe35 obs
  • Red-winged Blackbird31 obs
  • Eastern Skunk Cabbage31 obs
  • Dryad's Saddle30 obs
  • pickerelweed28 obs
  • striped wintergreen28 obs
  • Mute Swan25 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/490240067

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