Mount Baldhead
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Mount Baldhead rises to 233 m in Michigan. Beach Hill stands 242 m to the east, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Mount Baldhead Park, a park 0.1 miles away. 3 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
Mount Baldhead, also known as Mt. Baldy and Radar Hill, is a 250-foot (76-meter) sand dune located on a narrow strip of land between Lake Michigan and Kalamazoo River, directly across the river from downtown Saugatuck. It has an elevation of 807 feet (246 meters) and is about 70 miles (110 kilometers) north of the Indiana border on the west shore of Michigan in Allegan County.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wikidata Q33141377, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 233 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Mount Baldhead Park: 0.1 mi
- Willow Park: 0.2 mi
- Wicks Park: 0.3 mi
- Cook Park: 0.5 mi
- Jones Park: 0.5 mi
- Sunning Bear: 0.3 mi
- Canary in a Coal Mine: 1.1 mi
- Saugatuck Totem Pole: 1.2 mi
- Perro de Sol V: 10.0 mi
- Wizard of Oz / Fighting Tree and Flying Monkey: 10.0 mi
- Mildred A. Peterson Nature Preserve: 0.6 mi
- Saugatuck Harbor Natural Area: 0.7 mi
- Tallmadge Woods Nature Preserve: 0.8 mi
- Lawrence A. and Mary Bell Wade Memorial Nature Sanctuary: 2.7 mi
- Dune Pines Nature Preserve: 6.2 mi
- Saugatuck-Douglas History Museum at Mount Baldhead Park: 0.1 mi
- Roan & Black: 1.0 mi
- Boathouse: 1.2 mi
- Saugatuck-Douglas History Center: 1.2 mi
- The Cappon House: 10.0 mi
- Oval Beach: 0.4 mi
- Ridgewood Beach: 1.2 mi
- Douglas Beach: 1.6 mi
- Macatawa Park Beach: 7.4 mi
- Ottawa Beach: 7.9 mi
- Francis Metallic Surfboat: 1.2 mi
- Douglas Union School: 1.2 mi
- Dr. Asa Goodrich House: 1.2 mi
- Wade’s Bayou: 1.4 mi
- Hudson Heritage Farm: 5.5 mi
- Star of Saugatuck: 0.2 mi
- Saugatuck Dune Rides: 1.7 mi
- Big White Pine Trailhead: 9.8 mi
- Organ House: 11.1 mi
- De Zwaan Windmill: 11.1 mi
- Rose Garden: 0.5 mi
- Saugatuck Center for the Arts Rain Garden: 0.6 mi
- Back-In-Time Garden: 1.2 mi
- Pride Celebration Garden: 1.3 mi
- Early Morning Garden: 22.8 mi
- Pelican Peak: 1.7 mi
- Baldy: 5.7 mi
- Beach Hill: 14.3 mi
- Saugatuck Rest Area 727: 3.7 mi
- Glenn Rest Area 726: 10.9 mi
- Zeeland Rest Area 528: 18.2 mi
- Singapore: 1.1 mi
- Holland Harbor Light: 7.7 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Mount Baldhead. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beach Hill | E 93° | 242 m | 14.3 mi |
| Baldy | N 3° | 233 m | 5.7 mi |
| Pelican Peak | N 9° | 221 m | 1.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:49 | 19:20 | 19:57 |
| June solstice | 06:08 | 20:44 | 21:27 |
| September equinox | 07:33 | 19:07 | 19:44 |
| December solstice | 08:13 | 16:29 | 17:15 |
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 | 27 | 36 | 47 | 58 | 68 | 72 | 70 | 63 | 52 | 41 | 32 |
| Precip in | 1.9 | 1.8 | 2.1 | 3.5 | 3.8 | 3.4 | 2.8 | 3.1 | 3.0 | 4.2 | 3.2 | 2.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Holland Tulip City AP, 8 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 620506 — Mount Baldhead, Allegan County, Michigan.
OpenStreetMap element node/353915249
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