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Westwood Park

Westwood Park from directly overhead

Westwood Park is a park in Michigan, at a recorded elevation of 190 m. Halsted Hill stands 297 m to the north-northwest, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Inkster Park, a park 0.7 miles away. Woodward Avenue (M-1) - Automotive Heritage Trail passes 12 miles off. 2 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What the record says

Elevation
190 m

How to reach it

Coordinates42.30661, -83.29496

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Historic sites
Museums
Gardens
  • Pardee Secret Garden: 2.9 mi
  • Organic Garden: 3.1 mi
  • Brightmoor Youth Garden: 6.5 mi
  • Taylor Conservatory Botanical Garden: 6.8 mi
  • Grandmont Rosedale Community Garden: 7.6 mi
Attractions
  • Five Replica Homes of Great Americans: 3.5 mi
  • Rouge Park cannon: 3.8 mi
  • Las Tres Rocas (MTB feature): 5.4 mi
  • Tree Climb Feature: 5.5 mi
  • Log Pile Pyramid: 6.9 mi
Nature reserves
  • Sassafras Trails Nature Center: 4.2 mi
  • Holliday Nature Preserve: 5.7 mi
  • Golfview Nature Preserve: 7.0 mi
  • City Park: 7.1 mi
  • Madonna Park: 7.7 mi
Artworks
Picnic sites: 38
  • Big Bend Picnic Area: 12.8 mi
  • Washago Pond Picnic Area: 12.9 mi
  • Indian Ridge Picnic Area: 13.1 mi
  • Chestnut Picnic Area: 13.1 mi
  • Fox Meadows Picnic Area: 13.1 mi
Beaches: 18
  • Belle Isle Beach: 16.4 mi
  • Hipster Beach: 17.6 mi
  • Lone Pine Beach: 17.8 mi
  • Kingswood Stream Beach: 18.5 mi
  • Nantucket / Pennylake HOA Beach: 19.2 mi
Rest areas: 3
  • Belleville Rest Area: 13.0 mi
  • Carleton Rest Area 826: 18.5 mi
  • Northfield Church Rest Area 814: 23.4 mi
Peaks: 2
  • Mt Tom: 15.0 mi
  • Halsted Hill: 15.1 mi
Ghost towns: 1

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Halsted HillNNW 335°297 m15.1 mi
Mt TomN 359°257 m15.0 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:3719:0819:45
June solstice05:5720:3121:14
September equinox07:2118:5519:32
December solstice08:0016:1917:04

Local time (America/Detroit).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F252736485969737164524031
Precip in2.52.32.33.33.63.33.53.23.02.92.72.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Dearborn, 3 mi away.

  • Black Swallowtail114 obs
  • Monarch112 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee30 obs
  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee21 obs
  • Eastern Carpenter Bee19 obs
  • American Goldfinch16 obs
  • Asian Lady Beetle13 obs
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail13 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/369357426

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