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Wilderness Park

Wilderness Park from directly overhead

Wilderness Park is a park in Michigan, at a modelled elevation of 231 m. Cassidy Kame stands 344 m to the northwest, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Canterbury Park, a park 0.2 miles away. Monroe Street (M125) passes 24 miles off. 12 named summits stand within 25 miles.

How to reach it

Coordinates42.15722, -83.77453

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Nature reserves
Attractions
  • Jewel Heart: 5.2 mi
  • Pirate Ship: 6.9 mi
  • Wiard's Orchards & Country Fair: 6.9 mi
  • Decode: 7.2 mi
  • Southwest Tower (Levine): 7.6 mi
Artworks: 58
Historic sites: 39
Gardens: 32
Picnic sites: 17
  • Peter S. Fuss Pavilion: 9.8 mi
  • Picnic Grove: 11.4 mi
  • Pineview Picnic Area: 16.1 mi
  • Activity Center Picnic Area: 16.5 mi
  • Oak Meadows Picnic Area: 16.9 mi
Peaks: 12
Rest areas: 7
  • Northfield Church Rest Area 814: 13.7 mi
  • Belleville Rest Area: 13.7 mi
  • Chelsea Rest Area: 14.9 mi
  • Trestle Park Comfort Station: 22.0 mi
  • Carleton Rest Area 826: 22.9 mi
Ghost towns: 1
Beaches: 1
  • Orchard - View Colony Beach: 24.5 mi

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Cassidy KameNW 311°344 m20.6 mi
Sackrider HillWNW 294°338 m24.4 mi
Big KameNW 313°328 m21.8 mi
Sugarloaf HillNW 307°327 m21.2 mi
Stofer HillNW 315°321 m20.9 mi
Prospect HillNW 321°318 m22.4 mi
Riley HillNW 313°317 m20.5 mi
Shanahan HillNW 316°317 m22.4 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:3919:1019:47
June solstice06:0020:3321:15
September equinox07:2318:5719:34
December solstice08:0116:2217:07

Local time (America/Detroit).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F242634475868727062503929
Precip in2.42.02.43.23.73.53.43.33.02.72.62.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Saline Wwtp, under a mile away.

  • Amur honeysuckle17 obs
  • Roseate Spoonbill15 obs
  • dame's rocket13 obs
  • Jack-in-the-Pulpit11 obs
  • Virginia bluebells10 obs
  • White-tailed Deer9 obs
  • box elder9 obs
  • American Toad9 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/613161001

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