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Wooden Shoe Park

Wooden Shoe Park from directly overhead

Wooden Shoe Park is a park in Michigan, at a modelled elevation of 185 m. Deadmans Hill stands 393 m to the east-southeast, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Ellsworth Community Park, a park 0.3 miles away. 16 named summits stand within 25 miles.

How to reach it

Coordinates45.16461, -85.24023

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Nature reserves
  • St. Clair - Six Mile Lake Nature Preserve: 1.3 mi
  • St. Clair - Six Mile Lake Nature Preserve: 1.4 mi
  • Joseph & Ingeborg Marchio Nature Preserve: 2.0 mi
  • Nathan Beem Memorial Nature Preserve: 2.2 mi
  • Bill and Mary Glenna Malpass Nature Preserve: 4.3 mi
Attractions: 22
  • Browns Creek Pathway: 6.3 mi
  • Interpretive Display: 6.7 mi
  • Dune Overlook: 6.8 mi
  • Chef Pierre Bakeries Largest Cherry Pie: 9.6 mi
  • Earl Young Gnome Houses: 10.6 mi
Peaks: 16
Historic sites: 15
  • Still on Patrol: 10.5 mi
  • 45th Parallel Signpost: 12.7 mi
  • Old mill ruins: 13.2 mi
  • Bellaire Veteran's Memorial: 13.3 mi
  • Foundation of Old Walloon Hotel Barn: 14.7 mi
Museums: 14
Beaches: 13
Gardens: 5
Artworks: 2
  • Block M Rock: 13.2 mi
  • Children Playing: 18.3 mi
Picnic sites: 1
Springs: 1
  • Bubbling Spring: 19.6 mi

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Deadmans HillESE 119°393 m16.9 mi
Chandler HillsE 79°382 m22.2 mi
Chandler HillENE 75°372 m24.0 mi
Thunder MountainE 83°351 m20.0 mi
Mount BundySSE 147°347 m15.9 mi
Boyne MountainE 92°344 m14.7 mi
Richardson HillE 82°331 m7.1 mi
Avalanche MountainENE 78°293 m11.4 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:4519:1519:53
June solstice05:5420:4721:33
September equinox07:2919:0219:40
December solstice08:1816:1317:02

Local time (America/Detroit).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F191927405363676659473626
Precip in2.61.82.02.93.13.02.83.43.74.43.22.8

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — E Jordan 2NW, 5 mi away.

  • buttonbush9 obs
  • Common Loon4 obs
  • Cedar Waxwing4 obs
  • American Redstart4 obs
  • Eastern Phoebe4 obs
  • Monarch4 obs
  • American white waterlily4 obs
  • bog myrtle4 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/408625381

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