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Water Tower Park

Water Tower Park from directly overhead

Water Tower Park is a park in Michigan, at a modelled elevation of 176 m. Indian Hill stands 193 m to the south-southwest, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Memorial Park, a park 0.9 miles away. Monroe Street (M125) passes 4.0 miles off. 4 named summits stand within 25 miles.

How to reach it

Coordinates41.82029, -83.43309

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Memorial Park: 0.9 mi
  • 1st St. Park: 0.9 mi
  • 7th st Park: 1.1 mi
  • Maplewood Park: 3.7 mi
  • South Erie Park: 5.4 mi
Historic sites
  • Life is Eternal: 2.9 mi
  • Footprints: 3.0 mi
  • Comair Memorial: 3.0 mi
  • Watchful Father: 3.1 mi
  • Autumn Rain: 3.1 mi
Museums: 23
Artworks: 22
  • Big Goose: 10.1 mi
  • Goose: 10.1 mi
  • Goose: 10.1 mi
  • Angel: 10.1 mi
  • City Candy: 12.5 mi
Gardens: 17
Picnic sites: 8
  • Flint Woods Picnic Area: 21.0 mi
  • Acorn Knoll Picnic Area: 21.0 mi
  • Elder Creek Picnic Area: 21.0 mi
  • Chestnut Picnic Area: 21.2 mi
  • Fox Meadows Picnic Area: 21.3 mi
Beaches: 7
Attractions: 5
Peaks: 4
  • Sand Hill: 9.6 mi
  • Corn Cob Hill: 20.6 mi
  • Indian Hill: 21.6 mi
  • Turkeyfoot Rock: 23.8 mi
Rest areas: 3
  • Monroe Welcome Center 823: 3.4 mi
  • Dundee Welcome Center 822: 12.6 mi
  • Carleton Rest Area 826: 15.9 mi
Lighthouses: 2
Ghost towns: 2
Springs: 1
  • Great Sulphur Spring: 3.8 mi

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Indian HillSSW 211°193 m21.6 mi
Sand HillSW 228°189 m9.6 mi
Turkeyfoot RockSW 215°181 m23.8 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:3819:0919:46
June solstice06:0020:3121:13
September equinox07:2218:5619:33
December solstice07:5916:2217:07

Local time (America/Detroit).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F252736485970747164534131

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

  • Ring-billed Gull11 obs
  • American lotus10 obs
  • Great Egret10 obs
  • Mallard9 obs
  • Red-winged Blackbird8 obs
  • Brant7 obs
  • Northern Map Turtle7 obs
  • common reed7 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/264390049

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