Weiss Playground
Weiss Playground is a park in Michigan, at a recorded elevation of 180 m. Halsted Hill stands 297 m to the northwest, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Canterbury Park, a park 0.4 miles away. Woodward Avenue (M-1) - Automotive Heritage Trail passes 4.9 miles off. 2 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 180 m
How to reach it
- 4.9 mi off the Woodward Avenue (M-1) - Automotive Heritage Trail, National
- 26.4 mi off the Monroe Street (M125)
Named places within 25 miles
- Canterbury Park: 0.4 mi
- Patton Park: 0.5 mi
- Higgins Park: 0.5 mi
- Springdale Green: 0.5 mi
- Ash-Raymond Park: 0.7 mi
- March On: 1.0 mi
- Detroit: 1.1 mi
- The Path of Life: 2.9 mi
- Composition with Five Elements: 3.3 mi
- Jesuit Missionaries Cross: 3.3 mi
- Tuskegee Airmen National Museum at Historic Fort Wayne: 2.0 mi
- Great Lakes Indian Museum: 2.0 mi
- Arab American National Museum: 2.4 mi
- The Huckleberry Explorers Club Museum & Gardens & General Store: 3.5 mi
- Dabls MBAD African Bead Museum: 3.8 mi
- Fort Wayne: 2.1 mi
- Geodesic Dome House: 3.2 mi
- The Yard - Graffiti Museum: 3.7 mi
- Rosa Parks Entrance: 3.8 mi
- Grill Grove: 3.8 mi
- Melvindale Veterans Memorial: 2.6 mi
- Bailey Temple Church of God in Christ: 3.3 mi
- The North Wall: 3.4 mi
- Grande Ballroom: 4.1 mi
- Toll Gate Monument: 4.3 mi
- Hennepin Marsh Gateway: 8.8 mi
- Hennepin Marsh Preserve: 8.9 mi
- The Wildlife Sanctuary: 9.7 mi
- Stout Woods Open Space: 11.1 mi
- Island Ave Woods: 11.3 mi
- Cadillac Urban Garden: 2.2 mi
- Frontier Garden: 4.4 mi
- Plum Street Market Garden: 4.5 mi
- North Cass Community Garden: 4.7 mi
- Blumrosen Memorial Rose Garden: 5.1 mi
- PlayVenture picnic site: 11.9 mi
- Wolverine picnic site: 11.9 mi
- Main picnic site: 11.9 mi
- Main Picnic Grove: 11.9 mi
- Pierson Lake picnic site: 11.9 mi
- Belle Isle Beach: 8.5 mi
- Hipster Beach: 9.7 mi
- Crescent Sail Club Beach (Private): 14.4 mi
- Little Beach: 14.6 mi
- Accretion Beach: 14.7 mi
- Quinn: 20.0 mi
- Rawsonville: 22.1 mi
- Frederick: 23.0 mi
- Mt Tom: 17.2 mi
- Halsted Hill: 20.0 mi
- Belleville Rest Area: 20.5 mi
- Carleton Rest Area 826: 21.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Weiss Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Halsted Hill | NW 314° | 297 m | 20.0 mi |
| Mt Tom | NNW 331° | 257 m | 17.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:37 | 19:08 | 19:45 |
| June solstice | 05:57 | 20:31 | 21:13 |
| September equinox | 07:21 | 18:55 | 19:32 |
| December solstice | 07:59 | 16:18 | 17:04 |
Local time (America/Detroit).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 26 | 28 | 37 | 48 | 59 | 69 | 74 | 72 | 65 | 53 | 41 | 31 |
| Precip in | 2.1 | 2.1 | 2.5 | 3.2 | 3.7 | 3.7 | 3.4 | 3.5 | 3.0 | 2.8 | 2.6 | 2.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Dearborn #2, 4 mi away.
- dense blazing star36 obs
- Eastern Foxsnake18 obs
- Butler's Garter Snake15 obs
- prairie dock10 obs
- Common Garter Snake9 obs
- Northern Map Turtle9 obs
- Blanding's Turtle7 obs
- Monarch7 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/256978508
Day trips start here
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