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Wiegand Park

Wiegand Park from directly overhead

Wiegand Park is a park in Michigan, at a modelled elevation of 190 m. Oakland Heights Landfill stands 388 m to the northwest, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Fire Station Park, a park 0.7 miles away. Woodward Avenue (M-1) - Automotive Heritage Trail passes 5.2 miles off. 8 named summits stand within 25 miles.

How to reach it

Coordinates42.45421, -83.01629

Named places within 25 miles

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Nature reserves
Gardens: 58
  • Center Line Community Garden: 2.1 mi
  • Eastpointe Community Garden: 3.4 mi
  • Decorative Garden: 3.4 mi
  • Marjorie Street Garden: 3.8 mi
  • Friendship Community Garden: 4.6 mi
Beaches: 15
  • Accretion Beach: 7.4 mi
  • Little Beach: 7.5 mi
  • Crescent Sail Club Beach (Private): 7.5 mi
  • Belle Isle Beach: 7.8 mi
  • Hipster Beach: 7.9 mi
Picnic sites: 10
  • PlayVenture picnic site: 7.1 mi
  • Main picnic site: 7.1 mi
  • Main Picnic Grove: 7.1 mi
  • Otter picnic site: 7.1 mi
  • Red Panda Picnic Site: 7.4 mi
Peaks: 8
  • Mt Tom: 15.1 mi
  • Mt. Sheldon: 19.2 mi
  • Fibber Mountain: 19.3 mi
  • Bald Mountain: 20.6 mi
  • Halsted Hill: 20.9 mi
Ghost towns: 2

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Oakland Heights LandfillNW 326°388 m20.9 mi
Bald MountainNNW 328°351 m20.6 mi
Mount JudahNW 321°345 m22.9 mi
Fibber MountainNNW 345°302 m19.3 mi
Halsted HillW 280°297 m20.9 mi
Mt. SheldonNNW 345°290 m19.2 mi
Mt TomWNW 289°257 m15.1 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:3619:0719:44
June solstice05:5620:3121:13
September equinox07:2018:5419:31
December solstice07:5916:1717:03

Local time (America/Detroit).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F262837486070747365534132
Precip in1.41.42.02.83.53.13.23.13.12.32.21.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Detroit City AP, 3 mi away.

  • Black Swallowtail22 obs
  • Monarch19 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel13 obs
  • White-tailed Deer10 obs
  • Asian Lady Beetle7 obs
  • Ailanthus Webworm Moth7 obs
  • Western Honey Bee6 obs
  • Bold Jumping Spider6 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/486694455

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