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Westwood Michigan Map

Explore Westwood, Michigan, with this interactive street and satellite map.

This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.

Interactive Map of Westwood, Michigan

How to Use This Westwood, Michigan Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Westwood, Michigan. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Michigan or beyond.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Westwood.

Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.

City	Westwood
State	Michigan (MI)
County	Kalkaska County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/Detroit)

Latitude	42.303049
Longitude	-85.628653
Population	9,621
Density	1302.5 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	49659, 49006
Area Code	989, 269
County Seat	Kalkaska
School District	Kalamazoo Public School District

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About Westwood, Michigan

Westwood is a locality in Kalkaska County, Michigan, United States. It has a population of approximately 9,621. The population density is 1302.5 people per km². Westwood is located at 42.3030°N, 85.6287°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/Detroit) timezone. ZIP codes: 49659, 49006.

Westwood occupies a landscape defined by the quiet persistence of glacial till and the steady, low-slung horizon of the Michigan interior. It lies 26.2 miles east-northeast of Traverse City, MI (from Traverse City, MI: bearing 76°T), and is situated 8.9 miles north-northeast of Kalkaska. The terrain around Westwood rises and falls in modest, cultivated swells, where the air holds a distinct, metallic coolness even in the height of summer. Sunlight here is filtered through a thin haze, catching the edges of the hardwoods that mark the boundaries of local fields, while the distant, jagged silhouette of the Vosges Ridge occasionally haunts the western sky during the clearest evenings. The proximity of Grass Lake, just a mile distant, pulls a damp, fertile scent into the evening atmosphere, grounding the sensory experience of the land in the slow, dark movement of inland water.

Westwood grew outward from the necessity of the soil, maintaining an economy that remains tethered to the rhythms of seasonal harvest and the quiet industry of the regional interior. While the expansive, deep-rooted growth of the Au Sable State Forest lies fourteen miles away, the immediate surroundings favor smaller, organized plots of land that have supported generations of families who value a measured, deliberate pace of existence. Life in Westwood often gravitates toward the local stillness found at Palmer Park, a green refuge where the silence is broken only by the migratory patterns of birds or the distant, rhythmic flow of the Rapid River, two miles to the east. This locality does not demand attention, preferring instead to exist as a steady, enduring presence where the past is kept not in statues, but in the recurring colors of the fields and the reliable, unhurried habits of those who call the place home.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Stroud Family Park (Local Park) — 0.3 mi, 334° NW
Grand Prairie Golf Course (Park) — 0.6 mi, 334° NW
Arboretum (State Conservation Area) — 1.0 mi, 181° S
Prairies Golf Club (Park) — 1.4 mi, 242° SW
Versluis/Dickinson Park (Local Park) — 1.5 mi, 069° E
The Committee (Public Artwork) — 1.5 mi, 158° S
Western W (Monument) — 1.6 mi, 153° SE
Dalton Theatre (Theatre) — 1.7 mi, 120° SE
Nelda K. Balch Playhouse (Theatre) — 1.7 mi, 119° SE
Kal-Haven Trail Sesq. State Park (State Park) — 2.0 mi, 310° NW
Martin Luther King Jr. (Monument) — 2.3 mi, 102° E
South Street (Attraction) — 2.4 mi, 113° SE
Burdick Street (Monument) — 2.5 mi, 109° E
Kalamazoo Valley Community College Center for New Media Art Museum (Museum) — 2.5 mi, 108° E
Asylum Lake (State Conservation Area) — 2.5 mi, 193° S
Kalamazoo Mall (Attraction) — 2.5 mi, 111° E
Black Arts & Cultural Center (Gallery) — 2.5 mi, 113° SE
Red Arrow Golf Course (Local Recreation) — 3.0 mi, 102° E
Kalamazoo Nature Center (Local Recreation) — 3.4 mi, 026° NE
Overlook Deck (Viewpoint) — 3.5 mi, 254° W
Artist Singh Gallery (Gallery) — 4.4 mi, 146° SE
Nature's Playground (Attraction) — 4.8 mi, 029° NE
Sports Life Art & Design (Gallery) — 4.9 mi, 137° SE
JCPenney Portraits (Arts Centre) — 5.9 mi, 163° S
Kalamazoo Film Society (Cinema) — 6.0 mi, 162° S
Bernatche School of Dance (Arts Centre) — 6.1 mi, 162° S
Celery Flats Interpretive Center (Attraction) — 6.8 mi, 160° S
Manistee National Forest (National Forest) — 13.7 mi, 021° N · 539k acres
North Country National Scenic Trail (National Trail) — 14.6 mi, 080° E · 286 acres
Van Buren State Park (State Park) — 34.0 mi, 274° W

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